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People who have read "the song of Achilles" need to read "the silence of the girls" and Homer's Iliad, as in song of Achilles the story is told from Patroclus' perspective, someone who loved Achilles so he's incredibly biased and mainly focuses on how amazing Achilles was,
when actually he's the reason so many died during the trojan was because of his massive tantrum over Briseis (who would not have been like a close friend to them she would have just been a slave for Achilles to use)
Then again after Patroclus dies he commits horrific acts "in the name of love" but in Homer's Iliad the entire plot is off Achilles anger, it starts with his annoyance of being dishonoured and ends with his rage as his lover is killed because of his original anger.
Had the most British conversation in my classical civilisation class
teacher: can anyone give a good modern day example of epic poetry like homer's Iliad? here's what we came up with: gangster granny the minecraft movie Mulan kung fu panda Narnia
Horace’s Carmen Saeculare is wild
I knew all of these names individually but I never realised how insane they sound put together. Someone who doesn’t know Horace please make a story using these as the chapter names.
The Aenead so far is a lot less of a shit show that the iliad. Tho only read book 1. Some notable things tho:
- Venus sprinkled her son is sexy dust
- Juno went to the winds like, yo I'll give u brood mare wife if u start a storm to kill those Trojans over there, winds went, bet.
- iulus seems to be between a year old and 13, we do not know, he says his first word after he has done archery and ridden a horse.
- oh and love is an infection.