/lit/ - Literature

>finally decide to read Homer
>remember the Iliad is about the Trojan War
>keen as fuck to read about the trojan horse
>500 pages in and wondering where the fuck is the Trojan horse
>finish book, where was the horse??
>discover it's never even mentioned in the Iliad

Fuck I was devastated

Finished Odyssey recently as well.

Preferred Odyssey. I think I have been too predisposed to violent war movies for the Iliad to have a big impact on me. Still cool though