/lit/ - Literature

Is it pro-war or anti-war?

This is so good. Are all Greeks that good? Am I dumb for starting so late with them?
What do I also read for this feel, besides Odyssey?

More books about boys being boys and banging hot chicks like the iliad ??

Imagine if your country's greatest literary achievament was the bronze age equivalent of The Avengers

>reading the iliad
>many gods actively physically and invisibly intervene during events in the world
>they give advice, scare and inspire people
>they have flaws and can't do everything and be everywhere at once

>fast forward to 2019
>people still can't figure out if jesus is god or not

what went wrong?

When does Achilles stop being a little bitch? Diomedes has fought 3 gods already while Achilles has just been seething about the king taking his prize and imbarassing him in front of the army. He cried til his mommy consoled him ffs.

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You fucking plebs.

>>13626256
this is some sick shit desu

was Homer the first fantasy author?

>tfw the whole point of the book is Achilles' anger at the death of Patroclus more than the petty squabble between two kingdoms
>tfw the plot twist comes up right when one of them dies
>tfw the book that paved the road for western culture is a testament to gay love

why can't real life be like this

>>12593371
If you are brought into this world you should choose to improve it so there is less suffering. If you kill yourself without children there will be someone else with children and the lack of you and your children will deprive them of a helping hand to improve their life. Even if every human dies life will come back when a new protein cell is formed and these new organisms will undergo suffering in suboptimal conditions you didn't help improve.

Why is the goddess of love written as such a bitch?

>>12512101
for school generally.
not this translation of course

>>12481150
isn't it a book for a 3000 year old semi babaric peoples?

So is this just a bunch of poetic descriptions of dudes wearing gold armor and leopard skin capes brutally murdering the shit out of each other and having BBQs, with interludes of Zeus threatening to beat his wife? Just finished reading the part where Diomedes and Odysseus go on a recon mission, enjoying this so far.

Best books for /pol/acks? Looking for ultra masculine and traditional shit.