>decide to finally "start with the Greeks">the very American translator spends eighty pages of his introduction to this grandfather of all literature spoiling the story ahead and explaining the themes explored therein as if I'm retarded Why do they do this?
>>24966613u started with the introduction
>>24966613>American translator>started with the Americans not the Greeks
>>24966628I'm not Greek though. Am I supposed to learn ancient Greek in order to get into literature?
>>24966634If you don't, you can't really say you read it, can you?
