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nyssasatelier · 1 month ago

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So i finally got my hands on translations of both the Odysee and Iliad!!!

And despite originally caring more about the story of the Odysee i decided to read the iliad first and I'm so incredibly glad i did!

About 20 pages in and two different women are separately kidnapped and taken hostage, Agamemnon and Achilles are at each others throats, the gods are getting involved, Zeus is threatening to beat up his wife and Apollo is spreading the plaque.

Meanwhile Odysseus is somehow on a peaceful road trip and has a sleep over with the boys after a fun karaoke night.

#Can't wait to keep reading #Hope Odysseus gets a few more good moments before his life goes to shit in the next book #But also the iliad ist just so damn entertaining so far #Everyone is giving it their all arguing with each other #I'm both flabbergasted at their dramatic antics as well as drawn in #It's like watching a train wreck unfolding you can't look away #Also i was fully on Achilles' side until he begged his mommy to manipulate the war so he could play hero to heal his bruised ego #Like bro!!! What are you??? FOUR!???#Still the way he verbally dragged Agamemnon for being an egocentric bastard was iconic #He kept calling him dog face too #Surely Apollo would have cried at such poetry had he not been too busy killing their men.#the illiad #the odyssey #greek mythology #achilles #agamemnon #homer's iliad #iliad achilles #the trojan war #iliad odysseus #odysseus #zeus #apollo #greek gods #athena

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