Me, A Year Ago: Oh, Greek Mythology, I Used To Love It When I Was 10 Or So, I Think It Would Be Fun To

Me, a year ago: oh, greek mythology, i used to love it when I was 10 or so, I think it would be fun to reread some of myths now uncensored, but i really don't think it will be as interesting as it was before, like, i know all the plots and characters, so there is nothing new for me.

Me, now: I'm rereading the illiad and the Odyssey for the third time in a third different translation. I've already downloaded tens of other Greek plays. For over three months by now, I'm lying awake in bad thinking about characters from these texts and coming up with headcanons and scenarios for them. I started to write drafts of the illiad and the odyssey inspired fics on English, which I've never done before. I'm this close to starting learning Greek, so i can read all of the materials in the original. I need to study biology, but now I can't, I'm-

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.

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

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If they make an adaptation of the Iliad and they cast someone as Timothée Hal Chalamet to play Paris.

I'll be like :ok you're right, but BUT I DON'T LIKE IT

He deserves a hot spring scene tbh.