If they haven’t already, Generation ’10 will soon recieve a slick new copy of the Iliad, courtesy of some alumni class from the last fifty years. Unless they decide to buck tradition, its cover will feature a lovely classical painting now hanging in L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Slate, however, has proposed the alternative shown at right, which Bwog thinks would constitute a vast improvement.
Core reform? Nah—we just need new cover art to make old favorites new again!
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@actually we just need better translations
@J Train Didn’t ours have a sculpture, not a painting?
@Did you rip off that idea from BoingBoing?
@Erm Dude, there’s a link.
@saw this before the good old pulp fiction covers. Great covers (that emulate a great style) but the thing that irks me a little is the lewis carroll on drugs suggestion. There’s no evidence at all for that despite the popular myth and it minimizes how great he really was.