This Line Is So Funny To Me In Every Translation Odysseus Is Really Her Boy Through And Through

this line is so funny to me in every translation odysseus is really her boy through and through 😭😭

You already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this. Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again, as if for the very first time.

Emily Wilson, an excerpt of her introduction to The Iliad

can't come over i have plans :/ (sprawling multiple different translations and editions of the iliad & odyssey across my bed and rereading my favorite parts in all the different ways people have worded it)

Stevie and Lindsey on stage at Glen Oak Park Amphitheatre in Peoria, IL - June 25, 1976.

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

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Stevie on stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, IA - June 20, 1976.