Status Updates From The Iliad

“...but now let us enjoy some time in bed. Let us make love. Such strong desire has never suffused my senses or subdued my heart for any goddess or for any woman as I feel now for you. Not even when I lusted for the wife of Ixion, and got her pregnant with Pirithous, a councillor as wise as any god. Not even when I wanted Danae, the daughter of Acrisius, a woman with pretty ankles...”

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“Meanwhile, Hera quickly came up to the peak of Ida—Gargaron. And Zeus who gathers clouds together saw her, and at the sight of her, desire enfolded his cunning mind, as when they first made love and went to bed together secretly, so that their loving parents would not know.”

How many incest books can I read in one year challenge

“Do you not remember when I hung you in the sky and clipped two anvils to your feet, and bound a golden chain around your hands and wrists that could not be untied? You dangled there, suspended in the air amid the clouds. All of the other gods on Mount Olympus stood round appalled but could not set you free.”

Zeus did WHAT to his sister wife???

Needs to decide whether it’s going to be the greatest book i’ve ever read or the worst.

It honestly goes from some of the coolest shit ever, to an hours worth of some random dudes dying in the exact same way.

wish i had done a bit more research before brainlessly snatching the copies my mom had at home because why is this borderline unreadable at times? T_T i'm going to push through because i am still enjoying it but the prose is not what i would have gone with had i known
knowing i have the eneiad is in the same collection and it's the hardest of the three classic epics is worrying me a bit but i'll persist!!