Although some of the best-loved moments in Homer's text are referred to only obliquely or fleetingly when Achilles, mourning, covers his face in earth at the news of the death of his companion, Patroclus, or when Andromache is seen running a bath for an already-dead Hector Ms Oswald has captured a certain spirit of Homer's text, preventing the reader from missing these narrative moments too much.

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