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I've only read like 20 or 30 pages of The Iliad before I gave up.

>> No.18511795

>>18511789
Cause you are a writer not a reader.

>> No.18511804

Which translation?

>> No.18511856

>>18511789
just get the fagels translation; it just gets better. the only part I found rather boring was the ship catalogue (for obvious reasons) and that isn't that long.

>> No.18512510

>>18511856
I’m reading that one now and I’m on the the book where Ajax and Hector fight, the battles can get a bit repetitive but it’s funny how much the gods and mortals shit talk each other mid fight. Also I completely skipped the listing of ships because I won’t remember all that shit anyways

>> No.18512637

Audio book. It was meant to be heard anyway.

>> No.18512641

>>18511789
fuck you no one cares

>> No.18512654

>>18511789
Does it have notes?

>> No.18512875

>>18512510
Zeus talking shit about his wife always makes me laugh.

>> No.18512886

I don't care much for the talking soap opera gods thing in the Greeks, it's just as annoying as the medieval gimmick of narrative poems having characters called after and representing things like Virtue.

>> No.18513420
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Got filtered by Shakespeare (The Tempest) after two pages...