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Why must this girl be so stubborn

i have discovered that the reason that the men are referred to as "son of __" is because they had no surnames at the time, so they used their fathers to distinguish between men. maybe thats why there was __, son of __, son of __ a few pages ago

officially caught up with sticky notes

more names names names

mini monologue about... a belt ?

hera and zeus giving anna and atis paul

end of book III
paris is a wimp ! and poor helen who can do nothign but follow along, aphrodite also jsut lost paris his honour

now when someone says looking like a god it actually means something

holy glaze i cant wait to read the odyssey

the most confusing encouragement speech known to man -- hector called his own people "weak-kneed"

also side note my handwriting looks really nice in this one

helen (wife)
menelaus (husband)
paris (seducer)
priam (ruler of greece)
agamemnon (ruler of troy)

end of book II
lowkey picked this back up after a month but i know they're getting rallied again, but it feels like a bunch of names rn. obviously i recoginse a few here and there but holy shit

i shoudl draw family trees with all these names

lowkey took me too long to realise the ships came from the sons, and not cos ares got himself laid

zeus tells the truth for once

so is odysseus playing a double bluff almost ? was agamemnon actually accidentally smart about tricking his men into leaving cos that wouldve spared him possibly. or did agamemnon do this to get more of the spoils

im getting increasingly confused which side achilles is fighting for...? cos now why is zeus killing the greeks

oh bruh zeus is his dad

i wonder if zeus' lack of status in the descriptions is because he's helping both sides? like can he not refuse eto aid any of the gods. obviously hera sides with the greeks, but thetus sides with her son achilles, who, despite being on the same side as agagemnon, doesn't like him for stealing his prize , which just helps the trojans

end of book I
i love how they refer to zeus in diff ways depending on how much they want to puss him off (hera - con of cronos, hepheastus - olympian thunderer)
also the way they quarrel about all this reminds of the game makers in the hunger games -- making choices about human lives only to treat them like pieces on a gameboard.

women for a prize holy side eye

i forgot sack is also a verb lmao
une deux trois quatre SACK

patroclus making his appearance -- " history will say they were friends"

okay but why do they have brieses in the first place (they took her as a war prize)

hera really saving these greek asses

how does one just get apollo's scepter

this first paragraph is already showing me i have to lock in to read this bruh
maybe i start listening to classical

why am i only now realising that zeus and hera are siblings, and athene is with an e and not athena (just looked it up both are used athene is just older) and are these fakes supporting the trojans, i wonder if this gets explored. (it does kinda)

this samuel butler lad (translator) is being annoying in this page lol, i can appreciate the 'idiomatic' nature of his translation that i am yet to read, but changing a Greek novel.poem to Roman names because of better public reception is pure shite.
the footnotes left by the publisher are so funny they changed the names back to greek lmao and jsut got rid of his "not very helpful" notes

achaians - another term for greeks

updating from what i already have :
idiomatic - to use language that is natural and flows like it would for a native speaker, using figurative meanings rather than literal. (i didnt know waht this meant) (from the preface)

so i was originally using transparent sticky notes to write things in here but its so time consuming and hard to write in tiny gaps so im reverting to this sorry everyone