Is the Iliad actually a good story, or was it just the best shit

>audiobook

pretty good bait

>>9937234
To some extent I think the Iliad is similar to Dragon Ball Z where a dozen characters with rather exotic names are built up for ages and fight eachother in the most extravagant way with their godlike superpowers (in the Iliad they tossed the kind of rocks on their own which nowadays takes four just to carry) for twelve episodes all while their friends are watching and cheering, and it's all leading up to some ultimate drama to conclude the season or episode

The Iliad is a good story though

>>9937263
Not bait. It was the one read by George Guidall.

>>9937264
I disliked almost every single character. Ajax and Odysseus were OK, the rest were whiny, petty, and outrageously egotistical. I guess there's some humor to be found in the fact that these people prayed to gods who were pettier than them and viewed them as playthings.

>>9937234
Academics get really hard about influence and this board vaguely echoes academic thought most of the time.
It's good in some ways though anyone who's given it a proper read through can tell you it gets real fuckin boring from time to time.
Mostly it's just unbelievably influential