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if you look at this chart you'll see that every year the odyssey becomes less popular. it's important to keep it in the contemporary vulgate, otherwise people will think it's useless
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Genuinely believe that anybody who does this should serve a 40 year sentence in jail. https://t.co/TlATS9a63K
https://twitter.com/ryjlocal/status/1650136759303385089
joking aside, my suspicion is that fewer and fewer people are reading these texts (though i couldn't find data on this). IMO it's necessary and good to present them in whatever form excites the public imagination, & then you can work from there towards more accurate translations