03-19-2010, 03:21 AM
Last month I took down a yellowing and brittle paperback of the Iliad which I've had since high school at least.Amazing read all over again. Perhaps the best thing about the book is that no soldier of note falls in that story without a eulogy.Made me despondent that so many superachieving warriors slew one another in this cruel game of the gods. The best threw themselves at the best and both had worthwhile causes on a microscale though Paris was quite the cuckhold to abscond with Menalaus's wife Helen the way he did. Helen however seemed mostly okay with that arrangement but mainly because <to Hector's chagrin> Paris was much the seducer and bewitcher of women.I'm digging around for my old copies of the Aneid and Oddysey. But they are accessible on Project Gutenberg as long as your okay with the particular translation.Learned that "Homer" was not actually the guy's name but was a slang term for "blind beggar" and it somehow stuck with his works over the centuries.