Three thousand years later, Homer is back on the best-seller list
Friday October 8, 2004
from Reuters, London:
“Homer is Britain's best-selling poet”
Amazon.co.uk reports that, “thanks largely to Brad Pitt and ‘the Troy effect,’” The Iliad & The Odyssey have sold more copies than any other books of poetry this year.
Related resources:
Our library of links to Homer & other classical poets
The Adventures of Book Waitress, Eve Stern’s 1999 account of selling Homer at Barnes & Noble
Our collection of classic poems of war
“The Boys of Troy,” a conversation about the language of the film adaptation of Troy at About Action-Adventure Movies
“Homer is Britain's best-selling poet”
Amazon.co.uk reports that, “thanks largely to Brad Pitt and ‘the Troy effect,’” The Iliad & The Odyssey have sold more copies than any other books of poetry this year.
Related resources:
Our library of links to Homer & other classical poets
The Adventures of Book Waitress, Eve Stern’s 1999 account of selling Homer at Barnes & Noble
Our collection of classic poems of war
“The Boys of Troy,” a conversation about the language of the film adaptation of Troy at About Action-Adventure Movies
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