You don't know Homer's Iliad until you've heard it read aloud, all 24 books " well, very nearly all - and 16 hours of it, as the oral tradition would have kept it alive at least until the Athenians' Dionysiac festivals. For "you don't", read "I didn't", since despite having studied several of the later books for ancient Greek A-level, then the first 12 over one university year, it wasn't until Simon Russell Beale sta…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:25PM on August 15, 2015