Although I may be a snob, I read the classics for one reason and one reason only: they're terrifically fun to read. If you haven't been turned on to Robert Fagels and his translations, go immediately to your library or favorite online book buying source, and get your hands on his editions of The Illiad, The Odyssey, and The Orestia.
I just got my copy of The Aeneid. It is ever so nice.
Oh, and back to the snobbish part: These four works are critical for a modern thinking person to know. And while you're at it, get the Gardner Gilgemesh and the Seamus Heaney Beowulf.
There will be a quiz.
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