Status Updates From The Iliad & The Odyssey

Helen must have been unbelievably hot

I finished the first chapter, and it’s definitely a difficult read. It’s pretty good, even if it bounces around topics more than normal.

What do you mean The Iliad ends without describing the fall of Troy?? This is just The Epic Tale of That Time Achilles Threw a Fit and Didn’t Murder and Then Did Murder Lots of Trojans. Gods Enjoyed

In which we forgot we were in a war, took a break for a bit, and fulfilled all of Achilles’ melodramatic desires for a memorial pageant for his boy-toy Patroclus. Minor subplots for cheating / winning / prizes in contests