Aslak Rostad (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Aslak Rostad

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When Aslak Rostad rewrote the Iliad in modern Norwegian, he did so in the original verse form. "You can of course translate it into prose, but if you follow the rules you get a more poetic quality to it. At the same time, I try to make it as close to the original text as possible," says Rostad, who is an associate professor of classics at NTNU. 

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