I also just finished The War Nerd Iliad. I found it amazing, accessible to modern readers yet I think it also captures the tone of the original well. The fine line between gruesome and sad descriptions of death and 'glorious' muscular war.
I also loved that it's faithful to the original structure (omitting the Catalogue of Ships, thankfully).
Really stayed with me, and I found it better than War Music by Christopher Louge .
I've always had a strange reverence for physical books, and the idea of cutting them in half seems macabre in some way.
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