I’m a former English teacher. You don’t need to be an English teacher, however, to know THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY ARE TWO DISTINCTLY SEPARATE STORIES.

This lying fuck did a wikipedia search of “the classics” and wants smart people points for name-dropping THE WRONG FUCKING NAME.

He hasn’t read either. At best he’s seen a bunch of bleached Hellenistic statue avatars on the internet and nodded along to their RETVRN prattling. biggus-dickus

Ever meet that annoying kid in grade school that said “I am very smart. I know that E Equals Em Cee Squared!” young-sheldon Fifty years later, one of those became my-hero

  • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    I read the Iliad back in school in the original Greek. So much of it is just “this noble killed that noble”. Ya it has good moments, but damn it’s a plod. I don’t suggest it for anyone unless you’re into classics.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
      OPEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      I agree with you there; even the motivations were exhausting. “I WILL GET REVENGE FOR THAT” “YOUR REVENGE COMPELS ME TO SEEK REVENGE” and on and on and on. Cassandra was a fun i-told-you-dog vibe on the side, that said.

      I much preferred the Odyssey as one of the forerunners of pretty much everything we now call an adventure in western literature… and it was in reverse!