Homer's Illustrator

Here, Aedan Kennedy joins Classical Poets Live to talk about creating more than 80 pen-and-ink drawings for our new Odyssey translation. In this brief interview, he shares what inspires him and walks us through the rigorous process involved in portraying Homer's world more accurately than any illustrator before him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxz2PpEmAxE

Getting Personal

Aedan also gave a more extensive interview on his mother Anne Kennedy's Substack, "Demotivations With Anne." As she describes it, he joins to "to talk about the Odyssey, what he thinks about children’s books, what makes for good illustrations, how he came to draw so much, and how he’s going to soon start trying to draw babies." Click on the screenshot to check it out!