This doesn’t sound that good. However, a classic guy named Rousse redid the Iliad and the Odyssey several years ago in Novel format. He dropped most the rhyme that is forced in English and just told the tale as an adventure novel.
It was actually quite good.
I couldn’t help read your profile and saw you mentioned your PhD thesis on Martin Heidegger’s influence on US education. I’m curious because I would never have dreamed that there would be a connection between the two — maybe indirectly with postmodernism or existentialism, but that’s about it. That seems like an original topic where there probably isn’t much being written on. Anyway, just curious to see the two connected. Usual I think they would be opposites: old world (continental philosophy) vs New World (pragmatism).
BFL. I read those 40+ years ago, might be time for a re-read.