I have always been an Iliad person, but reading Pavese’s Leucothea Dialogues has made me softer toward Odysseus again, made the many turnings shift a corner. It’s funny how Homeric commentary still works that way for readers after millennia…

For the Pavese Leucothea Dialogues, his most strange and pleasingly referential book, you can buy them from indie Archipelago Books. For more Homeric commentary after millennia, my friend the Homerist, Joel Christensen, has a new Odysseus crossover book coming out this spring-summer.

As for Plin, I actually have to check this against the real Pliny but I think the kitten at least, prefers the plains of Troy rather than the problems of afterward. She would speed on a bumping chariot at 40 mph without blinking on her four little white legs like a deathless god.