why can't i stop crying while reading the illiad am i retarded?
>>84813478Fuck that little bitch Paris for realBro did not deserve Hector to have his back
>>84813478Is the Emily Wilson translation really THAT bad?
>>84813523>"Refer to me as Ishmael.">"It was very bad times and very good times.">"At the start, a God built the sky and the ground."
>>84813558My only copy is the Chapman translation and I simply can't read it, I have tried several times.
>>84813597You could always try Samuel Butler's prose translation.Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.
>>84813558Ih be guh... ih be beh
