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The Iliad

Homer

Start date: July 1, 2012

Finish date: July 31, 2012

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

Why we're reading this: Old School Classic Group Read, July 2012
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Jan 04, 2015 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, hf-ancient-europe, mythology, read-2016, audio-books, drama, greek-literature

From BBC Radio 4: The Last Days of Troy

Simon Armitage's dramatisation of Homer's Iliad . The Greeks are laying siege to Troy to win back their abducted queen, Helen. But as the conflict drags on, and despite battlefields scarlet with blood, opposing forces have reached a bitter stalemate. Desperate and exhausted, both Gods and mortals squabble amongst themselves for the spoils of war and the hand of victory.
The Last Days of Troy reveals a world locked in cycles of conflict and revenge, of east v ...more

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Dec 05, 2011 David S. T. rated it liked it

Shelves: religion, fiction

In high school, I read a rewritten short prose version of The Odyssey and I wanted to re-read it in a poetic version, but I decided to first read this. In hindsight, I'm not sure I was ready for this book yet. First I have a very limited knowledge of Greek mythology so I didn't know most of the gods with the exception of the main ones such as Zeus and I didn't know most of the Trojan war background and for the most part this book assumes you know both. I was also expecting this to be more like t ...more

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