/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20151643]

What's your favourite scene in the Iliad?
Mine is the part with the Trojan Horse.

[Anonymous No.20151667]

>>20151643
Epic. As in Iliad is.

[Anonymous No.20151718]

>>20151643
I like the parts where Achilles gets shot in the heel by an arrow and fucks Patroclos

[Anonymous No.20151724]

Hector's farewell.

[Anonymous No.20151729]

>>20151643
The part where Achilles is crying for his dead boyfriend. <img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/90786369_pepePoint.png">

[Anonymous No.20152142]

>>20151643
the beginning when helen goes to sparta

[Anonymous No.20152303]

>>20151643
the gay steamy anal homosex (i coomed)

[Anonymous No.20152347]

the judgement of Paris is coomer kino

[Anonymous No.20152417]

>>20151643
The part where Aeneas escapes from Troy carrying his father in his back.

[Anonymous No.20153261]

Love the riveting board game scene. Homer really encapsulated how games and war are one and the same. I think were he alive today, he'd be a big fan of 40K

[Anonymous No.20155069]

Death of Ajax is objectively the best part of the Iliad <img class="xae" data-xae width="31" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/c7375c9d_ChadYes.png">

[Anonymous No.20155096]

>>20151643
For me it's Odysseus being killed by his child he had with cersei

[Anonymous No.20155146]

Beginning to doubt anyone here has read it, just watched Troy.

[Anonymous No.20155163]

>>20151643
when Hector carried Archilles to Mount Olympus to destroy his ring

[Anonymous No.20155178]

>>20151643
the catalogue of ships and who brought them exactly with how many men including facts about their garments and how pretty their respective countrysides really are. it left quite an impression on me, because it raised the stakes more than any stolen trophy wife.

[Anonymous No.20155192]

>>20155178
Numbers in the Bible was loosely based on this section.

[Anonymous No.20155224]

>>20155096
that never happened though <img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/c2cfb2e3_KEKWait.png">
>>20155146
get out hater of course we've read it <img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/e54792d7_KEKW.png">

[Anonymous No.20155321]

>>20155224
It does. Read your Iliad anon
>The story of the Telegony comes chronologically after that of the Odyssey and is the final episode in the Epic Cycle.
>A storm forces Telegonus onto Ithaca without his realizing where he is. As is customary for Homeric heroes in unfriendly land, he commits piracy, and unwittingly begins stealing Odysseus' cattle. Odysseus comes to defend his property. During the ensuing fight, Telegonus kills Odysseus with his unusual spear
>As Odysseus lies dying, he and Telegonus recognize one another, and Telegonus laments his mistake. Telegonus brings his father's corpse, Penelope, and Odysseus' other son Telemachus, back to Aeaea, where Odysseus is buried and Circe makes the others immortal. Telegonus marries Penelope, and Telemachus marries Circe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegony

[Anonymous No.20155575]

>>20155321
>he read the abridged version of Iliad with only the deaths of Patroclus and Hector <img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/e54792d7_KEKW.png">

[Anonymous No.20155604]

I'm actually going to give an unironic answer: the part where Achilles chases Hector around the walls and Hector is reminiscing about what Troy used to be like before the war. I visualized that scene so perfectly, I could literally hear their footsteps as they chased after each other, and the solemn quietness.

[Anonymous No.20156117]

>>20155575
The theatrical release is really lacking. The director's cut that starts with the baby Paris being given to shepherds and ends with Aeneas defeating the Latins is the real experience.

[Anonymous No.20156634]

>>20151643
The part were diomedes picks a fight with zeus and wins then procedds to have steamy sex with him while zeus is in his goose form

[Anonymous No.20157390]

Odysseus discovering England

[Anonymous No.20157408]

>>20155178
those were just cyclops but I can understand the confusion

[Anonymous No.20157511]

>>20155604
Hector was never more human than when he flinched and ran from his impending doom

[Anonymous No.20157519]

the long-winded lion analogy

[Anonymous No.20157829]

Unironically I loved all the fight scenes, especially Diomedes I think who I pictured blitzing through the battlefield not unlile Dragonball or Marvel - hope your not elitist and this comparison gets you riled up. I imagined how amazed I was when I first saw these films and I think that's what it may have been like for the Greeks. Just demigods and superheroes duking it out and the troyans getting their just comeuppance.

I don't know I'm a simple man.

[Anonymous No.20157888]

>>20157829
I like the part where Hephaestus joins the battle. It's interesting how the ancient Greeks apparently didn't consider such firestorm, in spite of its obvious destructiveness, the epitome of war ability.

[Anonymous No.20158146]

>>20155604
I could only visualise this part like it was an looney tunes episode with coyote and road runner

[Anonymous No.20158176]

>>20155604
>>20157519
had to play the benny hill theme when I read that part

[Anonymous No.20158202]

>>20155069
All scenes involving Ajax the Greater are pretty badass. Especially when Ajax one-man-armies the Trojans at the ships.

After reading the whole thing I just came away with the impression that Achilles was a side-character the whole time. The man barely fought throughout the whole war and dies not long after he finally joins battle. Ajax is the real gigachad of the Iliad.

[Anonymous No.20158246]

>>20151643
The part where Odysseus nearly choked the shit out of Anticlus for being retarded

[Anonymous No.20158256]

>>20155321
Telegony is literally a fanfic of Homer by some illiterate Spartan no one's ever heard of. The only reason it's been given any attention is because of salty Roman LARPers who couldn't get over their hate boner for Odysseus.
As far as the OG is concerned Odysseus got home, murders a bunch of suitors, and lived happily ever after, the end.

[Anonymous No.20158358]

Skamander and Achilles fighting

[Anonymous No.20158387]

>>20158256
Odysseus return to Ithaka is pure and undiluted kino. Anything, from him dressing up as a beggar, his dog recognizing him, the contest with his bow, the weirdness of the shooting task, the slaughter of those rotten suitors, it's fucking brilliant.

[Anonymous No.20158822]

>>20158176
i was making a joke because there's a long-winded lion analogy like every second page

[Anonymous No.20158836]

>>20158822
meant to respond to this post instead: >>20158146
my b

[Anonymous No.20158902]

Currently at book 7. My favorite one so far was when Menelaus marked Paris with glee as that of a lion spotting a lamb. Also when Diomedes struck aphrodite and ares and ares' long winded monologue afterwards.

I should really spend less time on 4chan and read more.

[Anonymous No.20158928]

When the Trojan spy is captured and shown no mercy

[Anonymous No.20159192]

I love when x throws a spear at y, misses and hits z instead

[Anonymous No.20159575]

>>20158822
The extinction of Greek lions really was a huge hit to Greek literature. Like what are you going to compare a bold warrior to know? He leapt on his foe like a.... especially big stray cat leaps on a rat in the alleys of Athens.

[Anonymous No.20160735]

>>20151643
Hector saying goodbye to his wife and child.

[Anonymous No.20162546]

>>20151643
Ignorings OPs bait to catch normies

My favourite part is when Achilles fights Scamander. No piece of literature ever felt as exciting. That motherfucked fought a river. And won. The waves throwing corpses at him, him screaming, then Hephestus shows up and boils the river, God, it's so fucking awesome.

Diomedes enraged fighting the gods is also unbelievably exciting.