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13378422 No.13378422 [Reply] [Original]

Should i read this before diving into Homer? I don’t really want to but i don’t want to do a shallow reading of the epics

>> No.13378438

>>13378422
Lmao reading that book won't prevent you from having a fucking shallow reading lmao
Get out of your arse

>> No.13378441

>>13378422
well it can definitely help fixing many of the referents

>> No.13378457

>>13378422
Read this after.

>> No.13378489

Read a brief history on ancient Greece and also a book on the history of the trojan war and Edith Hamilton too

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13378739

Here are some good books to read after (or before if you wish) the Iliad and the Odyssey if you want interesting history and some more critical things of note:

The World of Odysseus - M. I. Finley

The War That Killed Achilles - Caroline Alexander

The Cambridge Companion to Homer - Robert Fowler

>> No.13379173

>>13378438
This.

Reading only deepens with each reread you give it. A shallow reading is all anyone ever gets on the first go