Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 4. March 20 1978
Homer is not Dead...
Homer is not Dead....
Certain people are going to read Homer's Iliad aloud, outside the library...... All of it.
Taking it in half-hour shifts, they will start at 12.00 noon on Wednesday 22 March, and go on .... and on .... all night, until they finish sometime on Thursday.
It's never been done before . . . not since Nero was playing with matches.
Most of the poem will be read in English, some parts in Greek.
They might even get into the Guiness Book of You-Know-Whats.