/lit/ - Literature

i am a cro-magnon that only reads scifi and fantasy but i want to expand my horizons. is it worth it to read the iliad? it's kind of fantasy right

>100 pages of ship names
>100 pages of whoever killing whoever with a rock
Homer was a hack

What I'm going to experience? Knowledge? Entertainment?

Just finished this and I am disappointed. Not because of the prose but rather the false expectations. There was nothing ”heroic” in this book. Whenever a character went on a rampage it was by the will of the gods. Achilles killing Hektor was nothing but Athenas favor, where is the heroicism in that? I thought the Greeks were the inception of heroic ideals but this just left me disappointed, humans being part of a minigame for the gods. I wonder what the point of this epic was? To state the importance of sacrifice? Because thats really all that mattered in the end.

>he doesnt write epic poems 600 pages long
:^)

>Achilles
>A-Kill-Ease
>Named so for the ease with which he kills other men
May as well have called him xXDeathSlayerXx666 or some other trite bullshit. What is the worst named character you have ever encountered in a book?

>character dies
>record scratch
>freeze frame
>yep, that's me. You are probably wondering how did i end up in this situation
>Well, it's all started with my father...
>no, wait, actually it's started with my grand grand father who was descendant of Zeus and who once sacked some city in Lycia

Tips? I'm just about to start, is it worth?