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Greek, Ancient and Modern

Dog-eared Homer I’ve been interested in Ancient Greece for much of my life. When I was in elementary school, I spent one Thanksgiving vacation copying dictionary entries of the Ancient Greek gods to a spiral bound notebook. I first read Homer in high school, the Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald, which I still have. As an ancient history major1 in college, I read a lot more including many classical works like Xenophon’s Anabasis and Plutarch’s Lives.