The Challenges of Translating Ancient Greek HD

Translator Barry Powell reveals the herculean efforts he faced in translating an ancient language and deciding on the true meaning of some of the words that Homer used. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-iliad-9780199326105 Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and author of a new free verse translation of The Iliad by Homer. (c) Oxford University Press