HI all

I am just reading it, am on the 3rd book. I am still wondering though, if I want to finish it? For me, when I read I like it best when the Author includes the reader, where the reader has to use their imagination to fill in details that are not written.. But, a part of me is wanting to know who says the following:

I too will lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown?

From seeing the movie, Troy, it sounds like something Achillies would say, but I am wondering if anyone here knows who said that???

Thanx all,

Ear-ick

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I read it in college. By the time you finish all three books, you'll know more that you'll ever need about the Trojan wars....but the poetry of it is absolutely beautiful.

If you're reading it for purely historical purposes, you'll find it doesn't match up to more scholarly works on the subject. But, then again, it wasn't really meant to be taken literally from a historical standpoint.

As I said, it's a beautiful read.

Achilles says it, to Thetis.

Yes, the paragraph starts: "Then, mightily moved, swift-footed Achilles spake to her:"

i read it 45 years ago. all that, over a woman.

HI all

THANX!!!! Kinda figured but didn't want to be left uncertain...

Thanx all,

Air-eek

quote Originally posted by lurker: i read it 45 years ago. all that, over a woman.

Man has been doing that since day one. just a minor example John Edwards could have been our president, now he may go to jail.

In this case, "the face that launched a thousand ships" was primarly an excuse for expansion

http://www.washingtonpost.c...IQAZkeRbT_story.html

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quote Originally posted by lurker: i read it 45 years ago. all that, over a woman.

And a dam horse--the 2 biggest money pits on our planet, all in the same venue, both propelled into celebrity status when they both should have faded from memory within minutes.

Read it back in College. Preferred the Odyssey however. All that fuss over some tang? Get a life guys!

Todd is now officially dead.

tho classics I had to plow thru it & the odd y sea
if you have not read these ancient bores try to read it in segments,they are interesting,but not light reading
but the spirit of the bravest shield bearers & the later Laconians is still with me
"achilLes slay hector & draged him to the greek camp''hOW WAS IT POSSIBLE PARIS COULD SLAY ACHILLES?
OH BRAVE ACHILLES,WHERE HAVE YOU GONE !!
IN 1962 my mother told me to come back bearing my shield or laying on it,do not disgrace our family !!

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