How am I supposed to read this?

Have a young man read it aloud to you, while you stuff his boypucci.

>>9169650
Johnny Cash Did it as an audiobook

>>9169650
read it aloud around a bonfire with some mates and some grog, preferably after a good meal concluding a day of physical toil

>>9169650
You should imagine Akhilleus stroking his """spear" "shaft""" between your thighs while you read it.

It's a poem.
What you don't get

>>9169725
How do I read a poem?

>>9169785
line by line

>>9169785
let it wash over you by

>>9169785
Fuck
This is fucking retarded, this whole situation and the system that created it. This idiot went through years and years of education and yet he asks people how to read a fucking poem. AND he's trying to read a poem a couple thousand years old, because /lit/ told him to.
If you do read it, consider yourself lucky if you don't hate it.

>>9169679
This

It's how I did it. Except when I read the Iliad I read it out loud to myself, rocking back and forth atop my dildo suction-cupped to the floor in my bedroom

>>9169679
Unironically this.

>>9169962
Is the Iliad some homo-erotic masterpiece or something.

>>9169978
It is a fact well-established that the Ancient Greek civilization owes its rapid cultural advancements to the populace's innate love for firm adolescent buttocks and tender boypucci. Hence the only way to fully experience and comprehend any of it's great masterpieces is in a company of a beautiful boy.

Learn attic Greek, there are a few instances in these ancient Greek books that don't translate well. Reading a line about how someone "approached the sea" isn't as poetic as intended when he referred to the sea as "αλς" or "salt". You miss many things like this by reading a bastardized version

>>9170258
How is 'approached the salt' more poetic than 'approached the sea'? Is this why it's so homo-erotic, with Homer's salty seamen?

>>9170569
Yeah, it's exactly like that anon

This thread is fucking insane.

God, /lit/ is as fucking useless as ever. A simple "You should sub-vocalize with pauses between lines" would have sufficed, but this board is full of non-reading sewage as usual

I pretended it was anime for the first 5 books then just read a summary online

>>9169650
You stand up and read it aloud

>>9170759
>sub-vocalize
if you can read out loud, you should
it's good practice for talking anyway

>>9170258
Have you considered suicide? How fucking detached are you to not notice that a person is clearly new to literature in general, and then even recommend him to learn a dead and difficult language, only to be able to read that someone approached salt instead of sea.

>>9171084
>difficult language
it would take him like 6 months to be able to read in Greek. it's not that hard
also
>taking my one example as the only example
there are many cases like that. it's as simple as the word used being mistranslated for a completely different meaning. 'think' has like 7 different translations, all with different contextual meanings. it's not a useless skill to be able to read in the context with the correct words and translating for yourself

>>9171023
I never really read aloud and I notice sometimes I'll want to use a word irl but then when I do I pronounce it strangely because I've never or rarely ever said it before.

>>9169851
The reason he doesn't even get the context of it is that people think it's less worthwhile because "It's old lol"

>>9169785
From left to right.

>>9170952
This.

>>9171109
>it would take him like 6 months
niiice meeemeee!

>>9170258
>learn attic greek
>what is homeric greek

>>9171827
do you even know what the difference is? learning attic greek would open up so many more books than homeric greek and still allow you to read his epics. it's just a few different case endings

>>9170952
>>9171712
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diH8TXZKfuQ&ab_channel=TheAdamAdamant

>>9169684
WHAT? Where can I find this magnificence?

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I read it a few weeks ago and it's so fucking boring. 15 chapters are literally just a back and forth between the Greeks and Trojans with pages upon pages of "This guy got stabbed, and his armor rattled to the ground, he was the brave son of a farmer and owned many livestock but his father would not see him pay back the cost of raising him for he fell to Dildomaster60s spear"

Achilles spends the entire story moping about because Agamemnon cucked him, Zeus can't make up his fucking mind about which side to back, the whole thing is just s shitshow. Hopefully the Odyssey is better.

These classical works are actually incredibly easy to read
They're not dense complex works like late 19th century works or post modernism

Personally, I'm reading it from an old Pope version where all the s's are f's, so as I read I'm also typing it up and changing them back to s's.

Gives me a chance to go slow and enjoy each line. I'm loving it.

>>9169650

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/5wqq2c/how_do_i_approach_reading_poetry/
GTFO you fucking retard.

>>9173154
You know what's sad, /lit/? I fear that the vast majority of people are even dumber than this guy.

>>9173154
>Hopefully the Odyssey is better.
I hope you like boats.

>>9173154
You are the purest definition of a philistine

>>9169650
I'd recommend going to a "recital," most uni towns have at least one a year. Once you've seen someone recite the Iliad, even with embellishments and quips added onto Homer's words, it all just clicks.

>>9170759
>with pauses between lines
but that's wrong you retard
>>9170952
>I pretended it was anime until the big 300 battles started and then it was too masculine for me
read MANime
>>9171023
this at least mouth the words to start with then you can work up to a proud & glorious singing
>>9173168
>Pope
Okay and when you are done you can read the Iliad

Not to say Pope isn't decent in his own right but he's as good a translator as Pound or Borges

I pirated an audiobook, it was great. Make sure to smoke weed as well.