/lit/ - Literature

I want to read the Iliad...

Is it hard to understand? Is there a best translation? Is it worth it?

to those who've read it: How does it measure next to the creativity and story telling of a good Heinlein or Asimov Novel?

Would I 'believe' that this was a sort of fantasy or does it read like the bible?

(Also, I'm at that part in my life (or, have reached it, as to not imply that t wouldn't last) where I can read something such as "Speak to me not of it" and automatically hear it in the same tone as "Don't tell me that shit" . . . So, with that in mind.)

This is how I imagined Dorian from the description in the book. He's supposed to be of ivory and like a flower.

Any good ancient greece book besides david gemmel's troy series?

well not really ancient greece but you get my picture