“Through blackening pools of blood”: Trauma and Translation in Robert Graves’s The Anger of Achilles
(2020)
Journal Article
McKenzie, L. (2021). “Through blackening pools of blood”: Trauma and Translation in Robert Graves’s The Anger of Achilles. Journal of Medical Humanities, 42(2), 253-261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09620-y
The Anger of Achilles, Robert Graves’ 1959 translation of Homer’s Iliad, has been variously dismissed by classical scholars as an ‘outrageous sortie into the field of translation’ (Aldrich 1961) and a work of ‘sheer egotism’ (Rexine 1962), marred by... Read More about “Through blackening pools of blood”: Trauma and Translation in Robert Graves’s The Anger of Achilles.