Achilles, Aeneas, Rustam...and the Koran (AARK) offers an introduction to classic works from Europe and the Middle East, namely, the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, the Aeneid of Vergil, the Shahnameh of Firdawsi and the Koran. It introduces these texts through the author's educational biography. What did he have to do to study these works when he was young and what good does it do him now that he is old? Were you forced to take Latin in...