read the iliad

Slowly, my Greek class translated it together. Difficult, but much more rewarding.

ive been reading in my spare time and its been taking some time. im nearly half way threw with it and im enjoying it but im wondering if there is a better traslation. someone who wants to recond a good translation please do.

It took me a lot of time, but I’m finnaly at the end of this goal! :)
What else can I say – the book is great and I’m really proud of myself!

And I hope I will end it soon – it’s great book, but I have huge list of book I had to read for yesterday…so I’m officialy in hurry…:)

People doing it with me – who do like the most? And in whose translations are you reading it?

Considering the original was in verse poetry and the version I read was just prose it definitly felt a little off. It doesn’t follow any normal conventions of story writing. Everything in the book seems to happen at the behest of the gods, for all intents & purposes the characters have little free will, the array of gods simply dictate event after event. They often have conflicts which throw uncertainty on the possible outcomes, but I felt like this story was more about the gods than the mortals & thier war. But then I’m judging it by modern standards—I don’t know enough about that period of history to give it a proper contextual analysis

However its still a very influential piece of literature, and finally understanding refrences that show up to it all over is nice.

It took me a month but I finished it! It was a lot more enjoyable in retrospect than when I was actually reading it…

it was kind of boring and if you want a more exciting version just watch Troy. ( ;

I really enjoyed the Iliad…...the Odyssey too for that matter. I always enjoyed history anyway, but by far the Greek history and mythology was always the most intriguing for me…..second only to Egyptology. I highly recommend the Lattimore translation. Happy reading.

be careful which translation you read, or listen to. There are some great ones out there. Try reading it out loud. Movies are good too (Troy, for example).

Okay, it’s bloody and drawn out war novels like what Tom Clancy might write if he were Greek. Wait, I don’t like Tom Clancy very much, so I’ll have to think of something else. It’s good. It’s bloody. It’s got Greek gods and hot man-love between Achilles and his … wait, that wasn’t in it? You sure? I swear I remembered something about that.

Okay, maybe I need to reread it. I was ten years old, after all.