Comment by karaterobot

Her introduction and notes on her own translation alone are worth the price of the book. It would be a really interesting short monograph on Homer's world and on the discipline of translation, if published independently. I loved her take on the Odyssey, and am in the middle of her Iliad translation now (was reading chapter 10 just a few minutes ago in fact). My emotional favorite is still Fagles, for the bombast, and I like Fitzgerald as much as this one, but her Iliad is really really admirable, and would be many people's favorite for its readability and perceptiveness about the text. Modern in approach to language, but not revisionist, and she totally understands the flavor the story should have while making it smoother and less intimidating than other translators have done.