/lit/ - Literature

The iliad was merely ok.

>>17027579
They compiled all of Homer Simpson quotes into a book?

>>17027586
read it again

>>17027579
Are there actually people on /lit/ who haven't read Homer?

>But muh Iliad muh classics
Haha, NOPE. Fuck that guy, I've read hundreds of books ranging from fantasy to philosophy, watched, read, and pondered on many different characters and real-life personalities, the pattern of their lives, their patterns of behavior. I harbor far greater understanding than he's ever possesed. That KEK was limited to the views of his comfy little Gayreek lifestyle, which might have served him well back then, but is beyond useless nowadays.

But say he's got a pearl of wisdom or two in that book of his—who knows, I haven't read it—and I can still apply it today, instead of using his advise and personality as a model for what a certain kind of individual would have behaved like under a different society (not really useful save for an ongoing mental construct of human behavior at large). I am still better than him. I am happier than him, more important than him, a greater, far more powerful soul than him, just by virtue of being myself. So it's not up to ME to beg this corpse's book for insight, I'm not gonna get on my knees and negotiate for how to absorb this withered skeleton's almighty advice. Just like with every other kind of literature, I'm gonna rip out the bits that are worthwhile and throw away the fluff. You are a KEK if you believe otherwise.

>>17027579
I read it and liked it, it was pretty nice. Feel like this board jerks it off though.

>>17027638
Don't use a Guenon picture if you're going to post psychic and desu borderline hylic cringe

>>17027579
d'oh!

>>17027579
b-but i gotta learn how to read greek first

Trying to get my hands on a translation in my lang that doesn't break my brain

>>17027588

I just read the odyssey, and I was really disappointed. Only like a third of it is cool monsters, the rest is just Odysseus being mad that people are eating his pigs. And eventually killing them, which is cool, but not really that great for the climax of the greatest book of Hellenic civilization.
Also why does Homer repeat himself so much? Everything is always "Rosy fingers of dawn" all the time.

d'oh

>>17028961
dont fall for the 'muh original language' meme and just read it in translation like 99% of this board.
its a perfectionist trap which will end with you having read either only English works or maybe works in 1 or 2 other languages.
you can always come back later and read it in greek once you get excited about the work and the language and learn it proper.

>>17027579
Why would you read Homer? It should be memorized and recited orally.

Why can't I find a paperback copy of Pope's translation of the Odyssey? I have an Oxford World Classics copy of his Iliad, but a recent edition of the Odyssey seems nonexistent. Very strange.