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#my advice to anyone thinking of reading the iliad is 1) power through and 2) research the story first so you’ll know what was going on
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Odysseus was a short king
#yes i’ve just paused in my reading of the iliad to bring you this news
#agamemnon is described as being ‘not the tallest’ of men and odysseus is ‘a head shorter’ than him
#he was SMALL
#in some other news patroklus has only been mentioned like twice but one of the times achilles called him ‘heavenly’ 👀
#i’m having more fun than i expected reading this. it’s dense and i keep getting a lot of crazy greek names and epithets thrown at me
#but it’s still fun and interesting
#my advice to anyone thinking of reading the iliad is 1) power through and 2) research the story first so you’ll know what was going on
#for most books you should read the source material before you read the retellings. not this one though
#read the song of achilles. read the chilliad. read percy jackson. watch a bad adaptation of the odyssey
#get high with your flatmate and listen to her rant about greek mythology
#these are my cultural references going in and i’m understanding about 75% of what’s going on so you can too
#personal
#the iliad
#mythology
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