/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16045068]

>why yes, i skipped the whole catalogue of ships, what gave it away?

[Anonymous No.16045208]

>>16045068
>Why, yes, I recite the Catalogue of Ships every morning to uphold the tradition of heroism.

[Anonymous No.16045220]

>>16045208
Based

>>16045068
Unironic cringe

[Anonymous No.16045878]

>>16045068
>The Catalogue of Ships is just a veiled Athenian propaganda piece, I even blotted the section out of my scrolls and any other reference to Athens

[Anonymous No.16046803]

>>16045068
>mfw cultured enough to understand this reference
>mfw that means I'm barebones, which is more than 98% of the world population

[Anonymous No.16047516]

>>16046803
>read only about 15 pages of the Iliad 7 years ago and not even the catalogue of ships
>didn't even know what the catalogue of ships was until I flipped through a different copy of the book about a year ago (didn't even read it)
>mfw this makes me a cultured individual

[Anonymous No.16047903]

Insomnia. Homer. Taut sails.
I’ve read to the middle of the list of ships:
the strung-out flock, the stream of cranes
that once rose above Hellas.

Flight of cranes crossing strange borders,
leaders drenched with the foam of the gods,
where are you sailing? What would Troy be to you,
men of Achaea, without Helen?

The sea–Homer–it’s all moved by love. But to whom
shall I listen? No sound now from Homer,
and the black sea roars like a speech
and thunders up the bed.

1915