Richard Oh

Juliet:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
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An Iliad
By Alessandro Barrico
Vintage
158
Alessandro Barrico, of the fame of Silk, had an idea. He thought it was a neat idea to read Homer’s Iliad to a paying audience in Rome. He soon found out that the length and the archaic language and the structure of the original classic tale would be too tiresome to modern [...]