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Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt contributed two remarkable chronicles last year to TIME. In a January cover story, he reported on a 25,000-mile odyssey that he took to meet with "children of war" from Northern Ireland, Israel and the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Six months later, during the Israeli siege of Beirut, Rosenblatt returned to Lebanon to seek out several of the Palestinian children he had talked to earlier. His journal of that search appeared in July. The two accounts, which won the 1982 George Polk Award for magazine reporting, now form the core...
...there was nothing quixotic in the final odyssey of Philippine Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. He may even have known that his murder (if such were to be his fate) would galvanize his countrymen. And so it did. Hour after hour, for three long days last week, the mourners, eventually 300,000 in all, filed past his glass-covered coffin at the Aquino family home in a suburb of Manila. What they saw was not pretty. Aquino's body had been embalmed, but the marks of the assassin's bullet were still horribly visible on his face...
...reputation started to tarnish. The Greeks had clearly borne great gifts to the Roman poet. The Aeneid now looked suspiciously like a pastiche. Its first half, recounting the wandering of Aeneas and his vanquished colleagues after the fall of Troy, owed more than a little to The Odyssey. Its last six books, in which the hero wages war on Italian tribes and fulfills his divine destiny to found the Roman Empire, showed the bloody imprint of The Iliad. Furthermore, Aeneas himself, compared with the Homeric heroes Odysseus and Achilles, began to strike many readers as a stick...
This English version of a cool but fascinating epic seems flawless. (Fitzgerald, 72, has already done superb modern translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey.) But such judgments are ephemeral...
...were on the same level academically as the 15 we picked," says Karl Galinsky, chairman of the classics department at the University of Texas in Austin; he sought the aid of a local high school teacher in reviewing applications for his course on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid...