/lit/ - Literature

>>15401899
Ajax was one of the strongest and most capable warriors in the Iliad, right? I don’t remember, how does he die? Any thoughts on why he is silent and ignores Odysseus, while Achilles let’s them talk to him?

>>15401899
I don’t remember Achilles having any joy in the afterlife. Doesn’t he say he’d rather be a slave plowing the fields of a rich man than a king in the afterlife?

>>15401996
Yeah he was among the best. Him and Odysseus had an argument over Achilles' armour, and Athena helped Odysseus win, so Ajax went school shooter killing a load of people and then himself

>>15402020
the original based retard

>>15402020
False, he slaughters their livestock, being deluded by Athena into thinking they were his enemies. SInce he embarrasses himself a second time, he an heros.

>>15401899
Can someone explain to me why the Iliad doesn't include the actual end of the Trojan War with the wooden horse and all that shit? And where the ending story comes from?

>>15402020
>>15402057

That's fan fiction from the Greek tragedy writers

>>15401996
>>15402131
It's not. For fuck's sake it's ridiculous how everyone claims to have read the Iliad and the Odyssey yet nobody ever mentions this work which is the direct continuation of the Iliad and shows that what happens to Ajax and the others matches exactly the events that take place in the "fan fiction" written by greek tragedy writers you're referring to. You charter niggers are cancer on earth, you haven't got a shred of curiosity for the importance of the so called secondary works which were overlooked by the critics, you're literally a pack of fucking golems waiting to be spoonfed with a shitty chart made by some illiterate high schooler who browses regularly /lit/. All of you chartfags should be banned on sight and chartfag threads should be forbidden because they attract dimwits like you like flies to a pile of shit.

>>15402078

Because the Iliad is about Achilles' wrath, and not the trojan war per se.

>>15402218
Yeah, but my question is how do we know the ending? Is it from >>15402208?

>>15402349
Yes. Quintus Smyrneanus wrote a reworking of Homer's lost sequels and The Fall or Troy or the Post-Homerica starts off exactly after the death of Hector and ends right before the Odyssey.

>>15402208
>Tripfag making sweeping declarations of who doesn't belong on the board
Neck yourself

>>15402633
if you need you be told what to read by a tripfag on a literature board you know where you should go

>>15402648
I don't, that was my first post in the thread. I'm just letting you know you're a fucking faggot.
If you need to have an account and receive attention for your posts non-anonymously, you know where you should go, nigger.

>>15401899
I almost cried during the conversation between odysseus and his mother. Step-dad died a couple of months before I started reading, and it hit me in the feels.

>>15402018
It's been a while, but Odysseus tells Achilles about his son(his success?)

>>15402078
1. Because everyone knows it's coming and it's the most memorable part of the war, so might as well focus on another aspect of it rather than repeating what the audience already knows
2.>>15402218

>>15402208
kino rant

>>15402208
Why would I take it seriously as a continuation of the odyssey of its not written by Homer?