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Iliad

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Ancient Greek epic poem that depicts war not as glorious but as something men experienced with reluctance and suffering.

Mentions (7)
"All you have to do is watch a show like Band of Brothers, or read the Illiad, or the poets of World War I to see that, yes, men did used to go to war, but they were not happy about it. These men, boys really, were subject to horrors which the average person is literally incapable of imagining."
"Men used to go to war" okay go watch Band of Brothers · u/RogueWizardly · ↑683 · 2025-04-01
"Even if it weren't one of my all time favorite poems, I would be remiss if I didn't start this "project" (a rather generous term) with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, beginning as it does with some of the hardest opening lines of all time (the rawest, in my estimation, since Homer's invocation of the M"
Thoughts on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot · u/the-woman-respecter · ↑84 · 2023-04-01
"After this we will do the Iliad 😱😱😱😱 This is on r/rsbookclub"
"The Mary Shelley reading list book club on r/rsbookclub will be doing the Fagles translation of the Iliad next. Discussion of books 1-3 on 11/27"
"After this we will do the Iliad 😱😱😱😱"
"After this I want to do Iliad, but I will see what the people want."
"I've been Hektōr-maxxing by rereading the Iliad and growing out my wavy hair."
Hector of Troy · u/wkomllt · ↑21 · 2025-09-17
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