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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"busy",<br>"author":"bookguy",<br>"permlink":"reading-homer-part-1",<br>"title":"Reading Homer part 1",<br>"body":"For years I\u2019ve been trying to get myself to read through the whole of Homer\u2019s Iliad from start to finish. And lately I realised how to do it in the most painless way possible: I plugged in my earphones and listened to an audiobook of Homer\u2019s Iliad on my half-hour daily bus rides to and from work. I was all the way through in about a month or two.\n\nListening to Homer on audiobook worked well for me,<br> and I strongly recommend you take advantage of this audiobook format. As Classicists we\u2019re prone to take reading for granted as the default method of absorbing literature. But it is good to remind ourselves that Homer\u2019s great epics were probably passed down orally for centuries before they hit pen and ink. And even in the Classical and Hellenistic periods,<br> most Greeks would have considered listening to be the default way of experiencing Homer,<br> and would not have seen the Iliad or the Odyssey primarily as \u2018books\u2019 to be read silently off the page in your head.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"community\":\"busy\",<br>\"app\":\"busy\/2.4.0\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\",<br>\"tags\":[\"busy\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/url\" " | | vote | "voter":"bookguy",
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