Pocket Iliad?

Greek Homeric Greek and Early Greek Poetry
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Decades ago, I was dormed in Classics House at Princeton, even though I was a Molecular Biology graduate student - housing was short. All the residents carried around small pocket-sized books of Greek and Latin texts. They read all day and drank until late at the graduate bar in the basement - 10 cent drinks subsidized by the school!

Now that I’m beginning Homeric Greek using Pharr 4th Ed in a biweekly online class with the below group (starts Jan 2024), I’m wondering what such a pocket book edition of The Iliad might be handy to have. Would that be the Loeb Classic Library Vol 1 (Books 1-12) #170 I find on the internet?

https://www.symposiumsa.com/index.php/courses/homeric-greek/

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The Loebs are a good size for carrying around.
I’ve also recently discovered a Princeton series that’s similar (with the original and English in parallel). They’re nice little volumes, but slightly larger than the Loebs.

eta: I can never get images to work, but I was trying to show you both volumes side by side for comparison. Try following this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RBgHyrOw42mYh4mE8PftBCrEf_f1fC7F/view?usp=sharing

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Two good options, pretty close in size. I might not be putting them in my pocket, but small is handy.

Thanks!