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6694894 No.6694894 [Reply] [Original]

Reading The Iliad, now on book 2: The great gathering (fagles trans)

>mfw the fleet description

When does this shit starts to get good?

>> No.6694901

>>6694894

Epics also doubled as histories, so the detail was important to them.

It's not that long, and it's easy to skim, so keep reading you pleb.

>> No.6694905

i don't think reading is for you. have you tried watching tv?

>> No.6694919

>>6694905
have you tried fucking yourself?

>> No.6694929
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6694929

>>6694894
Go back to your reading, OP.

>> No.6695009

The Catalogue of Ships was placed early in the narrative by Homer as a pleb filter

In all seriousness, that's the most boring part of the epic. Once you get past that it only gets better.

>> No.6695013

>>6694919
Yes. :(

>> No.6695017

>>6694919
whoa, hey man, this is a family friendly board.

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>>6694894
>fagles trans

>> No.6695022

>>6694894
>Fagles
It never does, sorry OP

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OP here. Just finished book 2 without skimming it. I feel like pic related with so much info at once.

>> No.6695045

>>6694894
Book 2 has pretty much the best scene in the entire poem and one of the most intriguing in all of literature: Thersites interrupting the council of war.

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>>6695024

>> No.6695877

>not learning by heart who came and how many ships they brought
>stay pleb