Oh boy Oh joy Oh my Oh I!
I began The Iliad this week.
Rage -- Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds,
and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.
Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed,
Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.
It's been an amazing wreading coupla days: Homer and Steven Pressfield. I'm going back and forth. Gates of Fire for the continuing Thermopylae tale > BRILLIANT ACTION OMG! I LOVE THIS BOOK! Just finished Chapter 24, the most intense battlescenes so far. Then I'm back in Iliadland. I'm loving the Pronouncing Glossary in the back, so many names and places, such high-lovely poetry! Can't wait to read other translations. I'm reading the Robert Fagles paperback, the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, thick'n'sturdy on-the-go Grand Storytelling! I am lifted imagining!
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