/lit/ - Literature

>>19373488
I'm reading it for the first time (following this chart and reading the side books as well).

I love it... The imagery is so amazing if you can think of being there listening to bards singing this thing without any idea as to what warfare is really like. I love all the nature imagery... I just read the part where Diomedes was introduced during battle and he was being compared to a lion charging after white lambs. Shit was fucking powerful and my mind was blown. I also love how some scenes are basically like modern cinema like there's a part where the battle is starting and it was describing with words the sound/thunder of footsteps etc and gradually moving away from the battle - comparing it to a shepherd high in the mountains hearing the beginning rumblings of a storm miles away. And shit like when Priam and his army gathering likes bees and shit. There's also really funny moments in the book too like when a bastard was being raised by another woman as her own and the dude going after him was described as "giving him attention" like his step-mother did and it described him being killed in the most brutal way. I let out a hearty chuckle lmao

FUCK brah. I love it. Can't wait to finish it and get to the Odyssey.

>>16256097
>tfw u fell for this chart
What else would you change about this? I was just powering to Edith so I could get the Trojan War history and Illiad... :(

Why haven't I listened to /lit/ from the start? I thought I knew better and read 20th century lit like Kafka, Nabokov, Steinbeck, Joyce, Woolf, Hesse, Beckett, etc. I read 19th century stuff llike Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Wilde. It was okay, but not the greatest shit so I got bored eventually.

That was until I read Homer and my mind was blown and my love for reading reborn. Illiad completely changed my life and my perspective about fiction. Then I fell in love with Greek tragedies, then the Roman poets, then Dante, Shakespeare, Milton. I can't believe I wasted so much time reading third rate modern hacks and ignoring the greats.

Sorry I didn't trust you /lit/ bros. If you're a newfriend reading this: don't be like me, start with the Greeks.

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>>16178270
What do you think about pic related? I am reading Edith at the moment and going to read Trojan War before diving into the the others.

I made >>16179251 before seeing this thread :(

Is pic related a good way to start with the greeks? I've really been enjoying Edith Hamilton. I especially loved her intro explaining how past cultures basically feared everything and made things unhuman while greeks made everything in the image of themselves. I can't wait to finish this book and reading The Trojan War before I dive into Illiad.

GREEK SHIT IS FUCKING COOL :D