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The Iliads of Homer

Homer

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. . .None thenceforth might contend with him, tho' nought admir'd for
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  The third man, aged Priam mark'd, was Ajax Telamon,
  Of whom he ask'd: "What lord is that, so large of limb and bone,
  So rais'd in height, that to his breast I see there reacheth none?"
  To him the Goddess of her sex, the large-veil'd Helen, said:
  "That Lord is Ajax Telamon, a bulwark in their aid.
  On th' other side stands Idomen, in Crete of most command,
  And round about his royal sides his Cretan captains stand;
  Oft hath the warlike Spartan king giv'n hospitable due
  To him within our Lacene court, and all his retinue.
  And now the other Achive dukes I gen'rally discern;
  All which I know, and all their names could make thee quickly
    learn.
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Community Reviews

Achilles - sexually ambiguous, rage-prone, has a sensitive tendon.

Patroclus - 'best friend' of Achilles. Ruined everything for everyone.

Odysseus - outsmarted the Trojans, had sex with a witch and a nymph.

Agamemnon - worst husband, worst father, worst Greek, worst human.

Menelaus - lost

Pablo Picasso spent his entire life trying desperately to do something new, something unique. He moved from style to style, mastering and then abandoning both modern and classical methods, even trying to teach his trained artist's hand to paint like a child.

In 1940, four French teens and a dog stumb

The Iliad; "a poem about Ilium (Troy)" is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version. Set towards the end of the Trojan War,

welcome to...THE APRILIAD!

for those of you who are new here and do not yet feel the existential dread and heart-stopping moroseness that a title + month pun inspires in the hearts of many...

1) hi.

and 2) you have been cursed to stumble upon yet another installment of PROJECT LONG CLASSICS, in which

3½ stars

Two mysteries were solved by my finally finishing The Iliad.

1) It is so obvious why these Ancient Greek stories have survived for so many years-- it's all gory violence and sex. Homer tapped into these marketing tools early.

2) I now understand why puritanical attitudes toward female sexua

as a native english speaker, im not exposed to translated books very often; so this reread is the first time where i have truly comprehended the significance of a translation and how it can either make or break a story.

i first read parts of ‘the iliad’ back when i was in school and i just remember

What I learned from this book (in no particular order):

1. Victory or defeat in ancient Greek wars is primarily the result of marital spats and/or petty sibling rivalry in Zeus and Hera’s dysfunctional divine household.

2. Zeus “the father of gods and men” is a henpecked husband who is also partial to

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