This is honestly one of the best books I've ever read. I

Thanks, glad you liked it
t. Homer

>>9622440

The bit with his dog Argos kills me every time.

What I love about it is that, my whole life, I'm conditioned to expect a sort of epic adventure story made up of fights with cyclops and whatnot. Turns out, that stuff is blown through in a couple of books, and the majority of the epic is devoted to an increedible story of identity. Caught me off guard

>>9622467
All related by a disguised old storyteller who tells it to the nobility of an island about to be closed off from the rest of humanity forever. Plenty of room the poet leaves the auditor to suspect it's all a bullshit tale, but one point is that this hardly matters. A lesson very many still need to learn in this OCD 'muh accuracy, muh scientific rigor' age.

will people laugh at me if i read the fagles translation? will certain people laugh at me no matter what i do?

>>9624032
>will certain people laugh at me no matter what i do?
Yes

I finished reading The Iliad a few days ago, I loved it, and from what you're telling, The Odyssey is even better. I'm hyped.

>>9624032
fagles isn't a bad translation, but lattimore is common enough and understandable and tries to recreate the sound of the original. if you can't get lattimore, then fagles is your next best chance at having the same edition as someone who read it who isn't a pretentious cunt.

lel, what do you know about fatherhood, OP?

>>9624358
well, my wife's son's father has told me that it's like playing catch with backs of sand

>>9624368
Tyrone likes Homer?

the iliad is better