/lit/ - Literature

No that's stupid, retard

Only pseuds would compare 3000 year old poetry to marvel comics.

>>19632813
you are right, marvel comics have more interesting plots

>mfw op isn’t trying to be ironic
my only guess is you’ve never actually read the I & O.

The Iliad was pozzed gay propaganda full of pedophilic motifs. In that respect it is very much like modern Marvel films

>>19632859
You never read it and you're too low iq to understand it anyway

>>19632820
yeah, marvel, the same motiff being repeated around different capitalism techniques that was inspired from 3000 year old literature.

>>19632803
Nice bait man.

To autists still unfamiliar with the topic, it's not that Ancient Greek classic like this is capeshit, it's that capeshit is a perverse corrupted capitalistic manifestation of the old works. It is devoid of all nuance, depth and lessons.

>>19632882
I have read the Iliad, unfortunately, and it is quite odious, from a moral point of view... It's hardly surprising that the Greeks turned out they way they did, when their founding text was so full of errant conduct and unnatural passion... The rape and sacrifice of freeborn girls notwithstanding, I could hardly prevent my gorge from rising, when, on line 230, in book 20, I was informed that Zeus, the chief Greek god (no better than some African brute) was a pederast... The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is quite beyond the bounds of propriety, whatever its nature, and I could not tolerate the way Thetis spoke so openly to her son of sexual matters. Truly a revolting text!

>Faggoteus of Assrapeepeeon was like a lion in the mountains when people want to kill the lion but the lion does not want to be killed so the lion fights back like a lion and kills many people, lion-style.
fucking hell homer

>>19632803
Wow what a unique take! I for sure haven't seen this one before! Now to ask you like everybody else, have you read the Illiad? Im glad that you enjoyed the Brad Pitt movie, but what about the book?<span class="fortune" style="color:#01aad0">

Your fortune: You got an extra thick slice of fruitcake.[/spoiler]

i've seen "the illiad is just ancient capeshit" bit posted so many times I'm having a hard time believing it isn't some alphabet people astroturf at this point

>>19632803
Can somebody please tell me why Athena is such a useless cunt?<span class="fortune" style="color:#53fc2d">

Your fortune: Bah! Humbug.[/spoiler]

>>19632907
Somehow you come off gayer than the fags in the Iliad

>>19633604
it doesn't have to be, modern consoomers are just very insecure about their consumption so any meme that compares the shit they like to something respectable (or drags respectable things down to the level of shit) is going to spread like wildfire in current year culture. "did you know the divine comedy is fanfiction" is another one.

>>19633982
oh yeah definitely, that's one too. don't forget "[philosopher] was just a seething incel"

>>19632803
go back to your ladies' soap opera shit

>>19632803
what an incredibly original and brave opinion

>>19632803
Why do redditors keep making this bait?

>>19632907
>pearl clutching over a 3000 year old book

>>19632803
Just because marvel and the epics have heroes doesn't make them the same because what these societies consider to be heroes is completely different.

>>19633164
That's not that bad, have you read his other works?
>And thus... Their odyssey has begun...
Who allowed this guy to make this?

>>19632803
It's amazing how /lit/fags try and deny this easily observable fact. The Iliad is just a Bronze Age fantasy epic. The only thing that separates it from shit like Star Wars, the Avengers, or anime is time. In fact, its more anime than capeshit: filled too the brim with gorgeous superpowered hunks, twinks, and twunks fighting each other, and occasionally gods, with magical weapons and armor. And in-between, giving passionate speeches about love, pride, glory, camaraderie, and friendship.

Someone has to have made comics about the greek classics right

This thread is posted every week, yet it gets hundreds of replies every time. Is the average /lit/ poster retarded? Genuine question.

>>19632803
>agree that iliad is capeshit
>know alexander the great carried around a copy of homer's works everywhere he went, he loved it so much
>used to admire him, now on the side cringe at it
obscure feel

>>19636331
I don't cringe. I see Alexander as the ancient equivalent of that one Olympic athlete girl who became a master markswoman because she wanted to be like Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist. People can achieve all sorts of things when they want to be like their fictional idol. Its one of the most powerful forms of autism.

>>19632803
You are objectively right but /lit/fags will never admit it

>>19636482
>that one Olympic athlete girl who became a master markswoman because she wanted to be like Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist
thats' qt and good taste

>>19636331
>agree that iliad is capeshit
Hello r*ddit

>>19636493
>objectively right
Not even close.

>>19632803
Currently reading this. To be honest it is a bit slow. About to read the part where Diomedes slaughters un mass. (book IV or V I think).

>>19635678
lmao this is kind of correct. But some of the phrasing is actually really beautiful.

>>19632907
>quite odious, from a moral point of view
it was the morals of the day retard.

>>19632803
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