The Iliad, or the Poem of Force | Episode XXI
New Humanists
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The Idiod and Homer's Odyssey
The poem is almost as good as the movieso, actually, one really important thing. If you have only seen the troy movie and have never read the iliad, there's a few things that you should know. tom holland is working on a kind of reverse project ith herodotus where he is writing, rewriting parts of the histories,. but re mythologizing them as if it were a sequel to the iliAD and the odyssey. The real action of the poem actually belongs to the gods, at least on a prema facia reading of the poem. It shows up even in places that are critical of greek mythology, like in plato
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