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I came across Powell first in Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991) where he argues that the Greek alphabet was invented in Euboea to write down Homer’s epics. It leaves one suspecting that this is a publisher’s meal-ticket. And I see yet another version of The Iliad by Peter Green (California) out this month and a new version of the Odyssey by Anthony Verity forthcoming from OUP, none other. If one enters ‘ The Odyssey by Homer’ in Amazon, 75 relevant pages come up with many translations (Powell says there are over 130). xi), they said ‘But hasn’t Homer already been translated many times?’ It was a good question. Powell told his friends about this project (p.
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