![]() ![]() ![]() His Hollywood screen writing credits include “Castaway” and “Apollo Thirteen.” Some of you may have read recently his splendid editorial on the virtues of mandatory national service. Bill is an intelligent man, directly experienced in the ways of war and the ways of the world. I invited my friend Bill Broyles to lunch. “But Hippolochus / Bore me, and I am proud he is my father./ He sent me to Troy with strict instructions / To be the best ever, better than all the rest, / And not bring shame on the race of my fathers….” (Homer, Iliad 6.211-215 Lombardo translation)Ī few years back, very wealthy donors wanted to back a project to promote Hellenic culture in the United States. “Do you know what a man is? Is not / birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, / learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, / and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?” (Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida”) ![]() The Iliad Gets Lost in Hollywood’s Translation ![]()
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