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Drinking game

take a sip every time you read "Son of -"

>Son of Atreus
>Son of Telamon
>Bastard Son of Priam

>> No.10280471

son of a gun :3c

>> No.10280494
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>and his armor clattered upon him

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>>10280494
>lunged like wolves

>> No.10280629

>>10280389
>Son of
is just an inflectional ending in the original Greek.

>> No.10280663

>He threw a spear at [Great Hero] but missed and hit [never before mentioned name] right below his chin and darkness swept over his eyes

>> No.10280800

>>10280569
ROSY

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>putting little white dicks on the cover of a book

>> No.10280838

>>10280823
they're cute little dicks :3333c

>> No.10281043

>Imagine a mountain lion...
>Imagine a wild boar being chased by hunters...
>Imagine a flock of sheep...

>> No.10281058

>>10280389
You could do that with the Genesis in the bible too.

>> No.10281075
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>take a shot every time a character weeps
So how long would you last /lit/?

>> No.10281081

>>10281075
>how long would you last
>implying I haven't already raped my liver with alcohol

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Take a shot every time a character is referred to by an alternate name
>Dido, Elissia
>Ascanius, Iulus
>Mercury, Cylenius
Etc, etc

>> No.10281129

>>10280663
>[never before mentioned name]
Looks like someone skipped the chapter introducing everyone on all the ships heading to Troy.

>> No.10281134

>>10281125
This was so confusing. What exactly was the point of that?

>> No.10281158

>>10281134
Probably some poetic reason

>> No.10281163

>>10281134
>>10281158
It's literally just Ovid being pedantic. Homer didn't pull that bullshit.

>> No.10281167

>>10281134
same reason Homer attaches all those epithets, it helps with the meter.

>> No.10281199

>>10280389
You missed "master of the war cry" anon

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>>10281129
The ships had already landed (9 years ago) by the time the catalog takes place though???

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>order this with cool looking cover https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Aeneid-Virgil-Robert-Fagles/9780143105138
>get pic related

What the fuck man

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>>10281225

>> No.10281362

>>10281225
serves you right for reading Fagles, fag

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>>10281225
Faglesfag is more worried about the cover than the content why am I not surprised

>> No.10281425

>>10281225
>Not learning Latin for Virgil
I'm disgusted.

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Iliad becomes my favorite book the more I reread specific passages, all it once it can be derivative but there are some incredible moments

>> No.10282944

>>10281043
the food analogy of the antiquity

>> No.10282977

>>10280389
>son of
Shitty translation.