”A Little Iliad” by Daniel Mendelsohn

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This episode is a reading of Daniel Mendelsohn’s essay,“ A Little Iliad ,” a review of the film Troy, an adaptation of the Iliad , from the Review ’s June 24, 2004, issue. It is read by the countertenor and opera director Anthony Roth Costanzo. Among many other roles, Costanzohas performed as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and Akhnaten in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten , both at the Met Opera, and he won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2022 for the cast recording of Akhnaten . He is currently the director and president of Opera Philadelphia. Daniel Mendelsohn is the Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books and the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard. The…