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16602642 No.16602642 [Reply] [Original]

>Read the catalogue of ships with a map at hand and made a list of all the heros and their homes
was pretty interesting this way desu

>> No.16602663

>>16602642
Sounds comfy, you mind posting it? Reading some anons list of a list on a Sunday morning would be comfy

>> No.16602779
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>>16602663

>> No.16602788

>>16602642
He was just trying to fill the word count.

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>>16602788
>Publishers paid Homer by the word

>> No.16602980

>>16602976
More like he got hired to sing a new song every night for some King and it's a lot easier to sing about ships for half an hour than to figure out how to stretch out Achilles' internal debate for ANOTHER 100 lines

>> No.16602997

>>16602980
Do you think Homer could easily get an extensive list and map of all the bronze age settlements and their respective mythological heros from Wikipedia or what?

>> No.16603052

>>16602779
That's pretty cool anon, have you thought about connecting them to a map?

>> No.16603142

>>16603052
there's a map of Homeric Greece somewhere that I downloaded, but I'm trying to find an actual map that I can hang up in my room where I can draw them in. I'm also planning to write down the exact passages of their deaths while doing my reread.

>> No.16604058

Pretty gay desu and a waste of time. Just finish the poem retard