/lit/ - Literature

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>>15064767
I finally started reading it yesterday.
I finished Book 1, and I'll read at least Book 2 tonight.
How long did it take you to finish it?

everyone here should have read it but there are only two posts..

>>15065498
This board is a fucking joke, and the increasing amount of chapocel posts are proof

"Automedon with the Horses of Achilles", a really sublime piece

Here's Francois de Nome's "Burning of Troy" - he did many similar landscapes

these paintings are really inferior to the pictures in my head while reading it

>>15065966
that's why poetry will always be superior to the visual arts

All i got sorry. Google jose daniel cabrera for more historical art.

>>15065966
true but it's nice to see how other people imagine them

>>15065989
Was Memnon really supposed to be borderline giant tier or is this just another modern muh dick depiction?

>>15066079
wow thank you anon

>>15066051
reddit.com/r/WtSSTaDaMiT

>>15065125
I'm about to finish, I don't want it to end so I read slowly

>>15064767
i really like how athena is drawn here; like a warrior, not sexualised or too feminine but not too masculine, pale skin with darker hair and dark clothing. for some reason i think she looks like this.

>>15066152
It took me an hour to read book 1 of the fagles edition, which is 20 pages.
Am I retarded?

>>15066195
20 pages for an hour is good, don't take these pseuds who say they read 1372847439 pages in an hour too seriously

>>15066116

>>15065125
I'm rereading it in ancient Greek. About 100 lines a day, so a book a week plus a day to re-read. I'm through book six now.

>>15066190
What are you talking about? Athena always looks like that in Greek vase art.

>>15066195
You're fine. That's the speed of most advanced high schoolers / undergrads reading for their first time, which I think is a good deal of /lit/.

Pic not from iliad but iliadic characters playing

>>15066467
>Athena always looks like that in Greek vase art
yeah but i imagined her exactly like this before seeing art about her

>>15064767
One of my favourites.

>>15064767
I'm just getting back into reading and I picked the Iliad to /swtg/. I'm around book 10 and god it has gotten so good. At the start it was difficult because I hadn't been reading for a while so I would lose focus and there are a few books which are just
>"and then [long greek name], son of [other long greek name], king of [insert greek city] with its high walls.
>As a tall oak tree stands above the windswept valley, shading the nymphs standing below in awe at the trees impressive height
>so high were the walls of shining [greek city]
>[long greek name] favored by [greek god], led an army of fierce [greek demonym]
>The south wind, fierce as it whips against the wave-beaten crags of luscious [Greek island]
>so fierce was the army of [Greek name]
or just summaries of who killed who and how they killed them and where they were from and who their dad was.

Once you get past all that and start getting into the thick of the plot its quite a read. I'm not sure if I'll reread the Odyssey after I finish but I will be continuing with more Greeks for sure. I was supposed to read all these books for Classic Civ class anyways but I was too busy getting drunk

Anyways, sorry for my diary here's my favorite painting from the odyssey

>>15065125
finished it in around 5 or so days. loved every bit of it

>>15065966
It's strange to me because I always thought I had absolutely zero ear for verse, but these pictures are making me think of the extent that it really seemed songlike to me.
>>15065594
Honestly, this. Almost all the threads are communism and atheism arguments now. /Lit/ is just Reddit now.

>>15066748
The book I have has a character dictionary at the end of it which shows what each character did in which book and line. So you can go back and find it again, it's like a map, really hepful. I want to use that technique if I become a book translator.

Whats the best translation of the Iliad to read? I have the Odyssey (the Rieu translation) but have been holding off reading it until i get through Iliad first

>>15066951
I'm no expert, but I really like Fagles.

Just recognize the transferable concept of Trojan horses

>>15066951
Lattimore is the preferred academic translation. I’d heard it was the most accurate to the Greek, perhaps at the expense of its readability, but I’m about 100 pages in and so far it’s been very readable.

>>15066960
>>15066964
you think it matters whether its prose or poetic?

>>15067017
I think the form of the translation needs to be at least somewhat influenced by its poetic origins. I dunno. The thought of reading all this archaic stuff in the form of a novel just seems weird to me.

>>15066951
i really enjoyed the new emily wilson

>I will not yield the mare
How could the Romans have even hoped to produce a line more evocative than this in their imitatiom epic?

>>15067141
There's really no way to get the poetic effect of the Greek in English, and aping the Greek in the form of English poetry is just kitsch.

>>15065125
It took me around a month in total time of reading weeks (weeks where I had time/energy to read), I just finished the other day. It was very good :)

>>15067141
>>15068040
emily wilson does it well

>>15066195
Don't measure how well you're reading by your reading speed, please. It's a toxic normie thing, read as slowly as you need to get the most understanding and meaning.

>>15066951
I don't know if it's the best, but I quite liked Fitzgerald, which is the one I read. I think people say he's better for his work on the Odyssey, though.

>>15064767

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