End in sight

I haven’t ended up blogging instead of revising, which is probably a good thing. There’s just not anything very interesting to say about the process of cramming a term’s thoughts into tidy exam-shaped nuggets. The whole thing is fairly dispiriting; fortunately after tomorrow I’m done with exams for the year.

The one good thing has been really getting to grips with Iliad 24, to the point where I can read it fluently from the Greek; I keep finding new ideas, new connections and subtleties I hadn’t noticed before. Maybe someday I’ll have read the whole poem in this amount of detail. But for the next few weeks, it’s light reading only!