But I am hampered in my appreciation of the book since I don’t read Homeric, Attic, or Modern Greek. It is also a very hard slog for me through some of the academic jargon, to wit: “Our attempt to explore ‘emic’ Greek terms and concepts has been inevitably, but also deliberately, selective and heuristic: if ‘reading’ cultures entails ‘writing’ cultures, that is, constructing textual discourses about other discourses, one should be aware of the discursivity of one’s own interpretive enterprise and try to eschew essentializing and definite verdicts, especially when exploring such extensive and notoriously ‘dangerous’ fields as the Greek grounds—grounds full of gaps, continuities, discontinuities, transformations, and ambiguities.”

Oh, and there was even a footnote in the middle of that. Incredible.

There’s a link in my last post to my summer reading — one of the tags on my shelf over at shelfari.com — your picture is actually much more esthetically pleasing.