I agree whole heartedly with what you have written. Primarily, I feel the first method on understanding any of the ancient narratives, if first to understand the nature of humanity. That in itself is a huge undertaking; but rather to understand the social situations of ancient times first in
Absolutely not. Anyone but Mandelbaum: I have caught him mistranslating the
climactic scene of the compact of the kings (before the final battle) in a
way that made no sense of the central issues of the poem. Cecil Day-Lewis
is both accurate and well composed.
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