The Iliad is just pic related for hundreds of pages.
>>25464352It’s called the Iliad and not the Troiad because it’s specifically about the events at Ilion, the city, and not Troy, the current and all the people in it, it’s because it’s a specific episode in the Trojan war at Ilion, not the entire war.
>>25464352Iliad is a later attributed name. The subject is Achilles' rage, it should be called Achilleid.
>>>He didn't like the various different descriptions of "Antilochus son of Archibaldes loosed his spear which pierced the breast of Zanzabirdes son of Chakabadles who pitched forward in his chariot and gasped his last breath as his eyes darkened and his ghost was given up"You fucking pussy.
>>25466765I didn’t say I didn’t like it, I just said that is what it is >>25466680Ok that makes more sense
Compilers of based anecdotes like valerius maximus, frontinus, plutarch and polyaenus mog homer, come at me. as always reality > fiction
>25466774bugmen like you are not welcome on this board >>>/sci/
>>25466765You're describing some indian vedic shit, certainly not Homer.
>>25466791surely you've been appreciating homer in original greek then, something i will never achieve
>>25466813I am because I went to a real school that wasn’t free so we actually learned ancient languages. That said, someone who enjoys translations of Homer is in spirit and heart miles above someone who cannot into art literature (provided it’s a verse translation of course).
>>25466765All it's missing is the Benny Hill theme song. Goofy-ass skirmish.
>>25464352It's a story set in Ilium, which was the country dominated by Troy.Next retarded question ...
>>25464352Because it's a poem about a war that occurred in Ilion
>>25467338>>25467338Technically it should be called the Williad because the original Hittite name for the city was Wilusa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilusaIlium is just the Greek transliteration of this name.
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>>25466871I can into art, just not homer. masons started overrating him to lower the aesthetic bar for their modernist/multicultural projects.
>>25467746What do Hittites even have to do with that
>>25467746>Technically the Canterbury Tales should be called the Durouernon Tales because it was the original name of the city
