In 1990, when the Princeton scholar Robert Fagles published a new English translation of the Iliad, he had Achilles tell Agamemnon that he doesn’t want people to think he’s “a worthless, burnt-out coward.” This expression, needless to say, was not in Homer’s original Greek. ![]() By the nineteen-eighties, everyone was burned out. Burnout is generally said to date to 1973 at least, that’s around when it got its name.
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