/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16009483]

Is this the most boring classical literature in the world?

It basically goes like this.
Adonis, son of George Stephanopolous, grandson of the coupling of Jackie Onassis and Zeus, esteemed in the eyes of gods and men, hurls his bronze pointed spear at Yanni. But the goddess from My Big Fat Greek Wedding watches and breaks the spear in half as it strikes Yanni's leather shield. Anger fills Yanni's loins and he strikes Adonis at the neck where the veins with blood run wide, and hews him solidly on the nape. The dark blood flows and the dark mist covers Adonis's eyes.

Repeat for 400 pages.

The most overrated literature ever created. Odysseus is 100 times better.

[Anonymous No.16009497]

I want women off my board. sage

[Anonymous No.16009505]

>>16009483
hole-haver detected

[Anonymous No.16009525]

>>16009483
Tits or gtfo

[Anonymous No.16009598]

Homer should be read as philosophy, not as literary fiction.

[Anonymous No.16009758]

>>16009483
You were filtered by the ship catalogue, weren’t you?

[Anonymous No.16009791]

The Iliad bears the marks of bronze age oral poetry and therefore contains repetitive passages about parochial tribal feats. However many innovative passages remain beautiful and genre defining, such as the interactions with Andromache before the war. These passages set it apart even from contemporary African oral histories.

[Anonymous No.16010118]

>>16009483
filtered

[Anonymous No.16010618]

>>16009483
>TFW you will never read the Iliad alongside Alexander while conquering the known world larping as Achilles and the other great Greek heroes
Existence is suffering.

[Anonymous No.16010668]

just read ossian.
“I am not ashamed to own that I think this rude bard of the North the greatest poet that has ever existed.” - Thomas Jefferson

[Anonymous No.16010694]

FILITERED
STOOPID

[Anonymous No.16010696]

Dumb faggot OP, he who was birthed by the union of ape and bat, posted his cringe covered thread. Noble Anonymos replied thus: O' dumb faggot OP, he who was birthed from the union of ape and bat, I call down upon you the punishment of ages. Mighty Janny, son of Kronos and most powerful of the gods; brother of Poseidon, Hades and the goddess, Hera, his wife; as lord of the sky I supplicate myself! Ban this dumb faggot, OP with your thunderbolt!"

Noble Anonymos' cry shook the cringe covered thread, and a great thunderbolt from Janny banned dumb faggot OP, he who was birthed by the union of ape and bat.

[Anonymous No.16010701]

>>16009483
Low T and low IQ sorry anon. Consider Harry Potter or Divergent.
>>16010618
Based fantasy but the Iliad would have been sung
(which makes it all the better)

https://youtu.be/qI0mkt6Z3I0

[Anonymous No.16010746]

>Yanni
More proof that the chad's subjectivism is Laurel

[Anonymous No.16010946]

>>16009483
It's definitely better than "Ling Long crossed the river Wong Lin and conquered Pong after a massive battle against Ching Chong where there were 30k casualties"

[Anonymous No.16010966]

>>16010946
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms?

[Anonymous No.16011001]

>>16009483
Nah Im reading it right now and pretty based gonna have to disagree on that one

[Anonymous No.16011012]

>>16010618
>Your Boipussy will never utilized
JUST

[Anonymous No.16011535]

>>16010966
Yeah or any chink history book

[Anonymous No.16011629]

>>16010696
Spoken with the wisdom of Néstor himself.

[Anonymous No.16011651]

>>16009791
>These passages set it apart even from contemporary African oral histories.
are these especially famous for their beauty or something?
>>16009483
why aren't Greek names cool anymore?

[Anonymous No.16011737]

>>16011651
>why aren't Greek names cool anymore?
They are it's just that dysgenic types name their kids shit like La'Quisha or Haylee or Hunter or whatever trashy shit. Naming your child anything except a traditional name from your culture, or a mythical/biblical name, and preferably after a ancestor, is disgraceful

[Anonymous No.16011799]

>>16009483
excerpt from Candide (1759):
Chapter XXV A Visit to Count Pococurante, a noble Venetian

.... Candide noticed a Homer magnificently bound, and complimented the nobleman on his good taste.
>'There is a great book,' said he, 'which used to delight our great Pangloss, the most renowned philosopher of Germany.'
'It doesn't delight me,' said Pocourante coldly; 'there was a time when people convinced me that I enjoyed reading Homer; but that eternal succession of identical combats, those gods who are always so busy to no effect, that Helen of his who gives rise to the war yet plays so little part in the story, that Troy so endlessly besieged without being taken-it bores me to distraction! I have sometimes asked learned men if they found this book as tedious as I do. Those who were sincere all confessed that it dropped from their hands, but that they felt obliged to keep it in their library, like a relic of the past or like rusty coins with no current use.'

[Anonymous No.16011811]

>>16011012

[Anonymous No.16011829]

>>16011737
so Greeks still commonly name their children things like Agamemnon, Hector, Menelaos and Ajax?

[Anonymous No.16011838]

>>16011829
Yes for 1 and 3. Never came across the other two

[Anonymous No.16011869]

>>16010701
>https://youtu.be/qI0mkt6Z3I0
Wow thank god I wasn't born in ancient greece. Actual cancer delivered to my ears in "musical" form.

[Anonymous No.16011892]

>>16011869
>Actual cancer delivered to my ears in "musical" form
What you re hearing is pajeets anon. I bet the ancient greeks could do it better. Still, kudos to those indians

[Anonymous No.16012516]

>>16011829
>ywn have such an epic name such as Agamemnon

[Anonymous No.16012605]

>>16011012
Inaccurate pic. It's more like pic related.

[Anonymous No.16012637]

>>16010668
lol
now read what a true critic wrote about macpherson's doggarel:
> But Doctor Johnson, do you really believe that any man today could write such poetry?
> Yes. Many men. Many women. And many children.

[Anonymous No.16012664]

>>16011829
hector is non unusual in europe. the others are used just by schizos.

[Anonymous No.16012762]

>>16009598
wrong
Homer should be read as poetry. That's why the only acceptable translations are Pope and Chapman

[Anonymous No.16013110]

>>16011869
sorry you got pleb filtered

[Anonymous No.16013254]

>>16012637
>a man that knew nothing about Scotland and couldn't speak gaelic thinks he can criticise it
yikes. saxon scum really are stupid.;

[Anonymous No.16013902]

>>16011535