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It is not enough to start with the Greeks, you must also end with the Greeks.
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I'm going to end with my foot up your ass
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>>25506028
How good it is?
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>>25506053
Nta. It's fine
Translation inevitably detracts from its craft as the homesick poem format is all but lost
As a story it is mildly entertaining as odysseus just goes around destroy ancient civilizations and remaking his own with blackjack and hookers
It is unapologetically nietzschian to almost a chuddish degree
You can get the message just by reading the incipits to each canto in which he just crams all his philosophising
My favorite part is when he meets jesus, buddah ans don quixote and totally dabs on them with his red pills but then he meets the author himself and he is just too based and cool he can't help but respect him
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>>25506028
Kazantzakis might be the last based Greek. He absorbed Nietzsche to such a degree that he even obeyed Nietzsche's last precept, which was to disown him eventually



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