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ITT: we share cases where our knowledge of the world affected our view of a book
>Reading the Illiad
> they are bragging about godly horses and who has the better ones
> know that horse husbandry at that time produced horses the sizes of what we would now call ponies
> mfw read the rest of the book with the image in my head of them, squabbling over who has the slightly larger ponies
>mfw Zeus mounts his chariot pulled by really large ponies and everyone is in awee

>> No.15956476

>>15956465
Kek.

>> No.15956491

god damn it, I'm reading the Iliad and now I'm going to be thinking of this the whole time

>> No.15956517

it really gets in my nerve when the author is really fucking ugly and it shows in the coping/lack of coping of their characters

>> No.15956568

>>15956465
How tall were the people?

>> No.15956677

>>15956465
Wait, so why were horses so tiny then? It can't be selective breeding because there were tons of massive wild horses

>> No.15956684

>>15956568
shorter than now. Since height is an attractive trait, humans have grown taller on average

>> No.15956715

>>15956684
>Since height is an attractive trait, humans have grown taller on average
no, it's caused by better child nutrition,

>> No.15956726

Reading A Confederacy of Dunces knowing the author killed himself 11 years before seeing it get published (and win a Pulitzer) is rough. It's one of the funniest books I've read.

>> No.15957071
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15957071

>>15956465
>read the Illiad
> corn is mentioned several times despite the fact that it wont be brought over from the Americas for another 2 millennia or more
>continue knowing that i am reading an amateaur level translation
My fault for buying penguin desu

>> No.15957118

>>15957071
>penguin
>iliad
don't they do prose translations?

>> No.15957143

>>15957071
Penguin has several translations of Iliad. It’s more down to the translator.

>> No.15957148

>>15957071
"Corn" just means grain.

>> No.15957149

>>15957071
wait, this is a troll, right?

>> No.15957195
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15957195

>>15957071
cede the English language to us, burger

>> No.15957353

>>15956726
that sucks, didn't know that

>> No.15957425

>>15956465
Homer imagined the people he told of in the Iliad to be taller and more magnificent than the people of his day. He surely imagined the horses to be larger as well. You should imagine horses of the size we know, but be amazed at how large they are.

>> No.15957522

>Read the Iliad
>Know that the existence of the olympian gods is not provable
>mfw read the rest of the book with the image that the combat was turning tides not because of Zeus' desire but because of the warriors fighting it
>Long story short OP is a dumb dumb

>> No.15957960

>>15957071
Either American or a bait post

>> No.15957973

>>15957522
>incapable of suspending disbelief
I pity you

>> No.15958021

>>15956684
>Since height is an attractive trait
oh you cheeky bugger, you

>> No.15958324

>>15956568
They became shorter once agriculture took over and people ate less proteins. Nowadays we are back at the height of the neolithic man thanks to higher protein consumption. Sometimes you can see massive differences in height between generations (here in albania the older generations are very short due to shitty nutrition during communism, yet the younger kids are very tall thanks to dinaric genes and better nutritions)

>> No.15958372

>>15957973
and youre as dumb as OP, I was stating exactly this about him.
Youve got to be really retarded to get to the passage where Hector breaks through the greek barricade and think to yourself: >lol,ancient people were manlets I bet the rock he threw was actually small,lel.

>> No.15958505

>>15956465
shut the fuck up you retard. just shut the fuck up you know nothing, only the tripe the fucking gay science fag manuals taught you. shut the fuck up.

>> No.15958817

The Illiad mentioned that in those times everything was better and larger, like people were able to lift giant stones and weapons that they couldn't do later. Maybe they were some legitimately large horses.

>you will never get to listen to the Iliad in its original song and music

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15958929

imagine thinking that homer is not a hyper-realistic piece of literature

>> No.15958937

>>15958817
>you will never sit around a fire with your gf listening to the Iliad

>> No.15960039

>When they reached the house of cloud-compelling Zeus, they took their seats in the arcades of polished marble
>arcades were not invented until the late 20th century
>an arcade is not a conducive environment for a serious discussion

>> No.15960106

>>15956465
>Zeus mounts his chariot
Now he's fucking inanimate objects too?

>> No.15960107

>>15958817
i thought there were only like 2 non-god dudes that could do that
also >muh heavy spear
jfc how malnutrioned were they

>> No.15960121

>>15956684
there's only one problem with your half-assed theory: the horses don't select each other, we select them

>> No.15960227

>>15960106
thats how chariotles was conceived yes