Chapman's Homer and higher, visual language

I'd resolved to read through the George Chapman Elizabethan era translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, then I began to seek reasons not to make that effort (the verse is somewhat slow-going), then I said I'll read another translation because I really just want to download the Homeric epics to get that language and ethic reinfused in me (like I do at certain stages of time and development), so I scanned through several other translations I have, but then I realized none of them are what Chapman gives, and I need to read the most inspired translation at this point. Chapman may seem overrated (everything can once you begin to actually spend time with it and engage it), but even if just for his unique renderings like 'his mind's seat' for his intellect or forehead, that type of thing, it's worth going through Chapman and picking up that language, especially when you already know the poems well enough to follow the more difficult Elizabethan verse.

So I am reading Chapman's Homer complete.

I made a list of things I have to do. Reading Chapman's Homer is at the top of it. Because Homer is higher, visual language, and is so powerful and complete a language (which, once you have it inside you to ever greater clarity and degree, you can see new things in yourself and in the world around you and above you that you couldn't see without having the higher, visual language inside you to begin with to be able to see it and translate it, so to speak) it is really of course more than just merely reading another book. It's like reading the Bible complete. In that category, if not that ultimate level.

Homer, as complete language, also consolidates knowledge and understanding you have taken in and developed since the last reading. It gathers and draws all 'parts' into the whole that the complete language of the two poems is; and it puts all those parts into an order.

Just as the four cardinal virtues represent complete virtue in all parts of the being (fortitude = body; temperance = emotion; prudence = intellect) and then the fourth - justice - tempers them all into a unity and balance while keeing each part contained. That kind of consolidating and tempering role is played by a complete higher, visual language which the Homeric epics represent at the highest, most inspired level (the Bible being in a totally different category, really, though very similar in effect).