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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago

It never occurred to me that it’s named for him. We read the Ilyad when I was in the 8th grade. I wanted to reread it some years ago and compared translations of the opening between books at a store. I ended up buying Herodotus’s History instead.