I don't really like poetry like the Iliad and the Odyssey, boring shit about military shit nobody cares about
iq problem
>>25473274I don't really care
>>25473270>Odyssey>Military shitMaybe try reading the book
>>25473279me either
>>25473281I only read about a fifth of the Iliad (like I'm at the fifth book) and it's really boring and I don't really care about it
What baffles me is why Aeneas and Odysseus got sequels but no Ajax or Diomedes. Aeneas was practically a fruit compared to Ajax.
>>25473293There's a whole bunch of ancient literature that's been simply lost. Maybe they did get sequels and we just don't have them.
I dropped the Illiad halfway through but I love reading the Greeks aside from that. I love the classic plays, the histories, the philosophical dialogues etc. but I just couldn’t get into Homer for some reason. It just moves too slow for my taste. I should seriously give it another shot at some point.Any tips?
>>25473304Maybe the ancients had their own version of GRRM and were screaming at him for 15+ years to finish the damn book, and then maybe he died of dysentery and burned all his notes or something
>>25473293In the generally accepted larger stories of the myths, not long after the Iliad, after Achilles is killed by Paris, Ajax loses a contest with Odysseus over Achilles’ armour, chimps out, then kills himself in shame, in some versions Odysseus kills him IIRC, there isn’t that much you could do with an Ajax sequel.
>>25473315it was the same situation for me. I liked Sophocles, Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato
>>25473315Are you reading the Wilson translation ? that ones sanitized shit. Doesn't matter what translation it is, the story will move at the same pace but you might find a specific version more engaging to read.
>>25473289>t.12>>25473315>t.heraclitus
>>25473315>I love the classic plays, the histories, the philosophical dialogues etc.None of this is poetry. Which Greek poets do you like>>25473339>Sophocles, Herodotus, Aristotle, PlatoNone of them are poets.
>>25473270>I don't really like poetryRead the prose translations, then.Tell me, oh Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home.Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.
