/lit/ - Literature

>>16221088
Illiad
>tfe no Hector bf
Patroclus vs Hector
Faggles cuz i havent read any other

Personally, I'm partial to the 1959 Hungarian translation of the Odyssey by Gedeon Mészöly.

The only good character is Aphrodite

>>16221088
For me, it's the Homeric hymns.

>>16221088
>iliad
>greater ajax
>unironically the ship catalogue
>pope

>capeshit general

>>16221809
t. Corrupter of children

why did the greeks have such a plethora of different names compared to today where everyone has the same nam

>>16221805
>>unironically the ship catalogue
Why?

>>16221772
I've skipped them, are they good?

*writes Iliad part 2*

>>16221088

>Iliad
>Diomedes
>when Achilles faces off against Asteropaios, who is the only one to ever draw blood against Achilles in combat or when Odysseus and Diomedes capture Dolon, get Trojan secrets, and decide to shwack him anyway
>EV Rieu

>>16221088
The Batrachomyomachia
Athena
The catalogue of ships
Fitzgerald's Odyssey

>Iliad
>Diomedes
>Achilles and Priam in Bk 24
>Lattimore

>>16221088
The Iliad
Diomedes
Odysseus returning home and seeing Argus
Fagles

>>16221088
Homer is based

>>16221088
Based thread OP. Fucking love Homer. Homer is based. You are based.
>The Odyssey (only one I had read so far, aside from Gilgamesh which is short, but plan to read Iliad and more, such as Mabinogion, Virgil, Dante, etc. also probably will still be my favorite as I love journeys
>Odysseus of course, name literally means son of pain, loved by everyone he meets and showered with gifts, chad who sleeps with women other then his wife yet keeps her loyal and is a loving husband, master of the domain of the God that curse him. Also he makes modern self-righteous left leaning literary critics seethe (I'm looking at you John Green)
>I really liked the cattle of the sun scene, as I remember visualizing it very vividly as some sort of other worldly location, an empty, yet ancient and divine plateau by the sea, combined with it's simplicity made it seemed like a metaphysical sealing of Odysseus crew mates fate, very fascinating.
>I've only read Fagles (A friend of a family member works at Puffin) though something about Butler is appealing to me so I want to perhaps try it on my read of the Iliad and reread of The Odyssey after.

>>16221771
Ancient Greek Coomer

>>16221088
>iliad
>hector
>when hector visits andromache and holds his son
>fagels, ig

>>16224807
>i fucking love homer
>i only read the odyssey

Why was Poseidon such a fucking faggot in the Iliad?

>>16225806
Hey it's better then most stuff I have read... and besides at least i actually appreciate things without having to be a fucking pseud about it.