Homer’s Iliad is retold in jog-trot octosyllabic couplets in which Agamemnon tweaks parson Chryses by the nose and Apollo backs his priest as gods of every faith are wont to do. Book by book the heroes become squabbling eighteenth-century Englishmen, the councils of war descend into slang, and the epic machinery turns to farce.
A boisterous Georgian travesty in the tradition of Cotton’s Scarronides, for readers who know their Homer. Download the free EPUB.