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>first epic poem ever written
>still arguably the best

Will there ever be another work of written art like the Iliad? It's been more than 3000 years, yet there are still things in the Iliad that have not been surpassed, either in poetry or in prose. The Iliad is so great that, even though our culture is vastly different than the culture Homer lived in, and the culture of which Homer writes, we can still be touched and moved by scenes in the poem, like when Hector sees his infant son, or when Priam comes to beg at the feet of Achilles.

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>He skips the listing of the ships.

>> No.16261136

>>16260832
The Catalog of Ships is the ultimate pleb filter, it weeds out the riff-raff.

>> No.16261327

>>16260152
I vastly preferred The Odyssey in every way.

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>first epic poem ever written

>> No.16261572

>>16260152
>OP has no idea about the history of epic poetry
>OP has no idea about the Western Canon
>OP has no idea about art history, literary theory, or philosophy of art
delete this thread, OP, it lessens this board. leave this place if you are younger than 18. lurk more, if you are older.

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>>16260152
not the first

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>>16261550
what's that thing