What Version/translation Of The Iliad And The Odyssey Did You Read ?

what version/translation of the iliad and the odyssey did you read ?

For The Iliad Robert Fagles

For The Odyssey Emily Wilson

in English translations of course :)

Yes this is in book 19

And Odysseus doesn't convince Achilles to eat, Achilles wants his whole army to go fight in the morning without eating. Achilles is sad and projects his sadness on all HIS army (the Myrmidons).But Odysseus at least convinced his army to eat. :)

The Iliad is a wonderful epic filled with super cool fight scenes, stealth missions, and gut wrenching sadness, but there’s this one moment that lives in my head rent free for absolutely no reason aside from slight amusement.

Not sure which book(chapter) it is, but there is a scene in which Achilles has completed his mourning over Patroclus, and if I’m not mistaken, Achilles was there for twelve days and did not eat or drink anything. Trust me this is important.

Achilles goes and he tells his mates (Ody, Menelaus, etc) that he’s gonna go out and absolutely rip Hector a new one.

Before he goes out though, Odysseus stops him and I kid you not, for at minimum half a page, our boy Odysseus goes on a whole MONOLOGUE about how important breakfast is, and how Achilles needs to at least have some meat and wine before he tears through the Trojan army and turns Hector into his personal ragdoll.

And if I’m not mistaken, Odysseus actually gets Achilles to eat before he leaves. What a guy, getting Achilles to listen to him.

Now go eat breakfast like Homer intended, dear readers. If the great, swift footed Achilles needs to eat breakfast, so do you.

⚠️ Ok, again they are bad people, BECAUSE SOME people think I don't know.THESE PEOPLE ARE EVIL AND THEIR ACTIONS TOO.DO NOT IMITATE THEM PLEASE⚠️

⚠️Gods are responsible for the war FACT, BUT they are not responsible for the cruelty inflicted on innocent Trojans.⚠️

⚠️It does not justify their actions and in a culture and period full of war and suffering⚠️

“What if Odysseus adopts Astyanax 🥰” tf happens to Andromache in that timeline then?

tfw you join the army and someone else has the same name as you, then the next day everyone starts calling you "Lesser Ajax"

Athena, Hera and Aphrodite: choose the most beautiful goddess

me: my girlfriend

Athena, Hera and Aphrodite: what?

me: my girlfriend

Athena, Hera and Aphrodite: she’s not even a goddess

Me: I disagree

Athena, Hera and Aphrodite: so?

Me:

Athena, Hera and Aphrodite:

Me: my girlfriend