That’s not something I should say having read only the first book, but it’s a confusing mess to me. The only part clear is achilles and agamemnon are at war over insults and a woman who’s being treated like property. Characters are briefly and rapidly introduced before immediately going into action. The wording is strange and carries a sense of such chest-puffing that it’s like reading a chapter that’s typed in all caps.
There’s the stench of Revelation because heaven, plagues, war and pestilence present. It’s very familiar to the material I read in bible study that was uninteresting because I was a child. My attention checked out and bounced when it got to Jove the merman telling Juno she should be quiet. I thought I would learn something new and fascinating about humanity. Mostly it feels like I’m a kid reading a daytime drama.
Thx for reading my rant. Have you tried to read a classic and were met with unexpected disappointment?
I said I think the Iliad is terrible, not Homer who I know little about. The first book at least. It wasn’t what I expected. Or maybe I needed to be in more of a humorous mood?
I translated some of the greek classics at high school, also parts of iliad and odyssee. I remember i liked it at the time, it was my favorite course.
Recently though, son and i started in a childrens book summarizing many of the classic greek stories.
There is lots of casual raping of women, cutting family members to pieces, sacrificing children and indeed the ilias where they mainly slaughter each other and fight over “property” (a wife, girl sex slaves).
I found the summary interesting, but decided to stop reading it to my son, because even the childrens version is all sexist and horrendous, much more so than i remember from when i was 17.
They broke the alliance of the first police academy, not there, it’s just family. Keep bookin’. Go for the gusto. Banpresto, that’s where the gusts flow. Stick with the Crest bro. That’s toothpaste, not scarface. Inebriate progenitors of shadow force after first dawn break bread like scolcrofts. A scolcroft is like a pet peeve on Oregon trail. cowboy terminology.
The structure of writing has grown a foundation that is now well established in current modern reading, you’re literally reading something that is ancient give it a little credit for being a neat story.
That said you also have to understand that heroes and gods also had different purposes culturally back then.
Stories were also about cautionary tales just as much as they were meant to be entertaining.
