/lit/ - Literature

>>12313083
this is dumb,i bet eleanor roosevelt thought she had a great mind.

pic related king alcinous of homers odyssey. his name literally means great mind.

>>12002783
he needs to go back and read homer because Calypso means she that covers.

how can people be content with such a shallow understanding of a great book?

>>11783375
In my opinion Hobbes based leviathan off of Homer,he even went on to translate the epics into english.let me give a few examples..

>>11773153
the odyssey shows how a whole generation of males became unruly,disrespectful and licentious and how the females became disloyal whores because all the men of ithaca never came back from the war...that generation was raised without fathers.

Does anyone else sleep with a copy of the Iliad and a knife under the pillow ?

>>11766384
Patroclus did as his comrade bade him; he set the chopping-block in front of the fire, and on it he laid the loin of a sheep, the loin also of a goat, and the chine of a fat hog. Automedon held the meat while Achilles chopped it; he then sliced the pieces and put them on spits while the son of Menoetius made the fire burn high. When the flame had died down, he spread the embers, laid the spits on top of them, lifting them up and setting them upon the spit-racks; and he sprinkled them with salt. When the meat was roasted, he set it on platters, and handed bread round the table in fair baskets, while Achilles dealt them their portions.

Iliad has expert food prep and cooking among other skills

>>11765091
not getting excited to enter into Homeric scholarship using pen and paper to count the men and ships to see how large of an army agamemnon commanded while looking on google earth at the geography described and noticing rocky ithaca and other epithets about the lay of the land

the cornerstone of western literature is Homer's Iliad and the complete destruction of Ilium and the sons of Priam is mentioned a few times in it.

>>11733530
When the Achaeans fight at Troy for the restoration of Helen they are winning tîmê for Menelaus . Likewise when Achilles refers to his prize (geras) - the loss of which causes him to be without honor (a-tîmos) - he means Briseis. Briseis and Helen and Chryseis are prizes on the level of narrative, but on the level of poetry and cult nothing less than immortality is at stake. In Iliad 1, an argument over a woman who is a prize becomes a struggle between two epic figures for tîmê.