Status Updates From The Iliad

“The glimmer reached the sky and all the earth around them seemed to smile with flashing bronze. The sound of marching feet reverberated. In their midst, Achilles put on his armor. And his teeth were clenched his eyes shone bright as blazing fire, his heart was full of an intolerable grief.” (XIX.473-479)

As the cat howls incessantly for its owner to fill its empty food bowl at ungodly hours, when it early in the morning and the sun has yet to scare night away, so too does Homer repeatedly use similes about farming in each paragraph, so that reading his epic poem the Iliad is both long-winded and tiresome.