**Barry B. Powell *is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Classical Myth, Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet *, Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature; and translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid; and many other...

**Barry B. Powell *is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Classical Myth, Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet *, Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature; and translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid; and many other books.