/lit/ - Literature

>When Diomedes stabs Aphrodite

>Why, yes, the part when Homer describes a soldier being impaled in the head by a flying javelin, which caused his eyes to pop out and drop into the hot sand, causing them to sizzle, is my favorite. How did you know?

>>15457827
>Normies with no academic experience thinking the Iliad is pro-war
Anon..

>>15457827
Best translation?

>>15457942
It's not anti-war, you revisionist.

Homer was a woman btw

>>15457980
>Literally every expert on The Iliad is wrong and I am right.
>>15457989
Based. Litcels finna seethe at the truth.
She was also black.

>>15457842
Diomedes is my favourite character. I've been going through family and work related business thinking
>''what would Diomedes do?''
>''How would Diomedes talk back to my low iq brother?''

>>15457942
I know anon. I'm reading the poem rn, how could I not? ''Gruesome war'' ''Bitter Ares'' These men fought out of honor and disdain for the fear of death, something modern men an hardly understand.
Pic related is Ernst Jünger's helmet.

>>15457989
Black, disabled and trans species too, you don't forget.

>>15458000
>expert on The Iliad
Not such a thing
>Literally every expert on The Iliad is wrong and I am right.
Yes.

>>15457942
>>15457980
>pro-war
>anti-war
>So the Iliad is just like da Iraqi war, huh?
Do burgers really