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The Iliad is Metal af. What other books contain such graphic

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The Iliad is Metal af. What other books contain such graphic descriptions of battke and death (ancient or modern)?
Also a side note: the way Homer mentions some unrelated quotidian fact about the dying makes they're deaths all the more powerful and vivid; especially considering that we only hear of most of these people mentioned once or twice during the story. It's kind of brutal to read.
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>>8209890

their*
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>>8209890

bump
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>>8209890

read Blood Meridian
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>>8209890
whiny ass "heroes".
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>>8210261

I'm sure your could survive on a Bronze Age battlefield as a warrior a lot more than those whiners, right, anon? Or manning a Bronze Age plow as a slave. Or even as a woman, fetching water, working the loom and pumping out your lord's children.

So shut the fuck up and show some respect to your ancestors Θερσίτης, you bow-legged little bitch.
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some of the descriptions of killing in The Tain make the Iliad seem like a pleasant walk through a meadow. Don't wanna spoil anything, but it's hardcore (also way more enjoyable than the Iliad imo)
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>>8210653
Can you spolied it a little for me?
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Most of the classics are brutal. Read the Aeneid next for more battle
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>>8210365
typical pleb responses to shit that has nothing to do with you personally.
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>>8210653
>their epics are about stealing cows
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>>8210794
well it tells the story of Cu Chulainn, who's basically an unstoppable badass. as a child, he kills a dog by throwing a ball through it - literally in its mouth and out the other side, ripping its guts out. there is also a particularly memorable scene in The Tain where Cu Chulainn bear hugs a guy to death, squeezing all of his insides out his asshole. there are plenty more examples very similar to that. jsut extremely gruesome deaths.
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Le mort de Arthur has a lot of blood, especially with random knights and ladies getting the ax after being introduced two sentences before
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>>8210855
Cool. Thanks
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>>8210256
I like Cormac McCarthy too but...really?
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