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The Illiad of Homer, The Odyssey (Great Books of the Western World, Vol 4)
by Homer, Mortimer J. Adler
by Homer, Mortimer J. Adler
David Withun's review
bookshelves: history
Aug 11, 12
bookshelves: history
Read from July 17 to August 11, 2012 — I own a copy, read count: 2
The Iliad and the Odyssey are, of course, must-reads. It's hard to comment on classics like these, but, for those who haven't yet read them: I think the Odyssey is more entertaining than the Iliad because the action continues throughout whereas the Iliad has many breaks in the action to engage in the kind of lists of unpronounceable names you see in some places in the Old Testament of the Bible. Both of them are, however, fantastic.
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Reading Progress
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19.0% | ""He that fights fares no better than he that does not; coward and hero are held in equal honour, and death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle." - Achilles (Homer, The Illiad, Book IX)" 1 comment |
