Thanks, I actually didn't know this. I read The Iliad but it was a slog to get through. I was planning on reading the Odyssey but after reading the Iliad, I 've been too intimidated to start. Found it a little (very) boring.

The coolest thing I learned from reading The Iliad is learning that Achilles doesn't actually die in The Iliad. We only learn of his death from The Odyssey when it's spoken to. Also, there were "working women" (so women who aren't having kids and married to a man) in the Iliad that come from the island Lesbo. I nearly died when I read that. I had to look into it more and the mainstream narrative insists there's 0 connection whatsoever to Iliad describing career women (working women) as being from Lesbo and our terminology for homosexual women as lesbian with the short-form being lesbo. Personally, I don't believe much in coincidences of this magnitude. God has a sense of humor.

Thanks, I actually didn't know this. I read The Iliad but it was a slog to get through. I was planning on reading the Odyssey but after reading the Iliad, I 've been too intimidated to start. Found it a little (very) boring.

The coolest thing I learn from reading The Iliad is learning that Achilles doesn't actually die in The Iliad. We only learn of his death from The Odyssey when it's spoken to. Also, there were "working women" (so women who aren't having kids and married to a man) in the Iliad that come from the island Lesbo. I nearly died when I read that. I had to look into it more and the mainstream narrative insists there's 0 connection whatsoever to Iliad describing career women (working women) as being from Lesbo and our terminology for homosexual women as lesbian with the short-form being lesbo. Personally, I don't believe much in coincidences of this magnitude. God has a sense of humor.