Updating Homer for Sensitive Modern Readers A TongueinCheek Proposal Front Porch Republic

Carrollton, GA. In light of recent editing efforts to update the works of Roald Dahl and Agatha Christie to prevent scandalizing modern sensibilities, the time has come to take on the real elephant in the room. I am talking, of course, about all the Greco-Roman classics that have been allowed to skate by with nary an update for two and a half millennia. How long will Homer keep getting a free pass on all the trigger-warning worthy content? The answer is: not much longer. To be fair, every age has had its own creative modes of censorship for excessively offensive…