Some commentaries describe The Iliad as direct and fast paced. Those aren't the descriptive words that come to my mind. "Long" and "boring" are what I had in mind. I kept waiting for the Trojan horse to show up! Everybody has heard of the Trojan horse, so why isn't it in The Iliad? Now I know t...
I've read this a couple of times now and find it more and more compelling. The bickering of the gods is amusing, the rage of achilles is both maddening but also rendered well, the battle scenes are viscously detailed. It's a demanding text, but this translation makes the reading easy, even if the na...
This is the book that made me realize that I really hated Greek Mythology. I didn't mind the others as bad, but I truly did not like Greek Mythology at all.
I read this one over the summer of 1998. I had read the book once when I was in my teens. When I reread it now, it was a nice way to reread the work as I found this particular edition very readable.
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