Status Updates From The Iliad (Chiltern Classic)

Homer & Emily Wilson are teaming up to add more character descriptors to my vocab. Can only read so many “stalwart Diomedes,” “master strategist Odysseus,” “godlike Achilles” … before I start asking cheflike @BrannockFurey what’s on the menu for dinner tonight

#epic

I now understand why this story is so well loved.

"Trojans and Greeks that day lay there in their multitudes, stretched out alongside each other, face down in the dust,"

"The War-god Ares spurred on the Trojan forces, and grey-eyed Athene the Greeks."

oh wait no he's scared of being made fun of?

I lowkey feel bad for Agamemnon because he's so scared of Menelaus dying.

Athena is starting up stuff 😔