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Robert Fagles
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ROBERT FAGLES

The Art of Translation No. 2
Interviewed by Edwin Frank, Andrew McCord
Issue 151, Summer 1999
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
I would indulge in a Barbara Walters moment because I happen to know that you are a football fan.

FAGLES
Who’s a football fan?

INTERVIEWER
You are!

FAGLES
Can’t keep any secrets.

INTERVIEWER
It would be great to work a fantasy football team out of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

FAGLES
Out of the Iliad and the Odyssey? Good. I know who’d be thrown off the team as captain. Agamemnon. He’s a disaster as a leader! Achilles is the best broken-field runner. And the one I’d most like as a coach is Penelope. Good at tactics, better at building morale, emotional when it counts. I don’t mean to be gallant. I’m not half-kidding.
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