As a Ph.D. in Renaissance English and comparative lit, I have read a good number of academic works, as well as the playful and grand works of Erasmus, Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and Moliere. This is one of the two best academic works I've read, the other being Shapiro's 1599. After I read it, I had the lovely opportunity to study with Tom Greene in an NEH postdoc at the Folger Library in the 90s; so it is doubly delicious to recommend his seminal work.
Though he read several languages, his principal second language was French, and his wife was a native speaker who said it was unfortunate for New Haven, "It turns its back on the sea."
Tom Greene's Light in Troy is enhanced by his wonderful ability to capture tone in his own translations. His generosity as a classroom or a tutorial presence, his genial wit and extensive knowledge of multiple literatures put him in a world apart. I once wrote this sonnet in his honor, and in memory of our Folger research seminar:

When like the afterlight of April days
The heat of our fair summer shall grow dim,
Or when the turtle from the pond mislays
Her eggs in sandy banks too near the rim,
When summers echoes are in ice encased
By freezing rains of dreary late December,
And our fair conversation long erased
Like chalk from walls that now cannot remember,
Then shall this paper, like a monument
To skirmishes forgotten by the young,
Remind us of our sometime regiment,
Demobbed, disbanded, and dispersed long,
Then shall we few, we veterans sixteen
Toast our fond service under Col'nel Greene. ( )