Jack’s Reviews > The Iliad > Status Update

trying to find the motivatioooonnn

losing steam with this book. i know it’s a book on a war but there is too much war and not enough sassy dialogue rn

i think this story has the most characters, ever

10 pages of just listing the captains and ships lol

book 1 finished. primordial feelings are personified as gods in greek mythology, and in the iliad, so far, these gods haven’t been given names but you can still get a sense of that ‘But rage seized Agamemnon’. I just love it! everything feels so mystical

very powerful ending of the intro from wilson

‘We are now in a period of crisis not for a specific nation but for humanity, inhabiting a planet that is becoming less and less habitable. A new kind of heartbreak can be felt in The Iliad’s representation of a city in its last days, of triumphs and defeat and struggles and speeches that take place in a city that will soon be burned to the ground, in a city’