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Posted on 8/10/15 at 10:51 pm to Slippy
Does it count if we translated it in high school for Latin IV, I got an A, and I have no idea what is all about to this day?
Posted on 8/10/15 at 11:09 pm to Slippy
I've read it for enjoyment about 10 times over the course of my life. The mini-stories within the larger plot have been used regularly by many writers and playwrights as their own.
After Odysseus, Tydeus Diomedes and Telamonian Aias (big Aias)(Ajax) are my favorite characters.
After Odysseus, Tydeus Diomedes and Telamonian Aias (big Aias)(Ajax) are my favorite characters.
This post was edited on 8/10/15 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 8/11/15 at 12:00 am to ILikeLSUToo
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I'm gonna wager that anyone who read The Iliad in middle or high school read a highly, highly condensed version.
Why not? Unless you can read Homeric Greek, you can't get the true experience anyways.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 12:12 am to Slippy
Does it count if you saw O Brother Where Art Thou?
Posted on 8/11/15 at 1:42 am to CelticDog
I think it was assigned to me in HS, but I didn't read it. I am sure I found some cliff notes and mustered a 70 on a book test. Either way, I graduated college, so I assume I am 'educated'.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 5:26 am to Slippy
Same thing with the Bible, but more so.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 5:42 am to Slippy
The Odyssey was better
Posted on 8/11/15 at 5:46 am to Slippy
Yep, read the Iliad and O.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 6:03 am to elprez00
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How does one make it through high school without reading the Illiad
Completely regret it now, but I made it through high school without reading pretty much anything. I was friends with a girl who was actually pretty incredible at creating study guides. She was a high achiever and would basically write her own cliff nots and was really good at knowing what our teacher would put on tests, quizzes, etc. I'd study with her and come out of tests with c's and b's without cracking a book. I never even read Animal Farm. I go back now in my late 20's and try to catch up on the books I was too lazy to read, but I missed out on a lot.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 6:51 am to Slippy
I don't think I ever had to read it.There was a copy at my Grandparents house and I read it out of boredom.
I guess I can attribute a lot of reading to staying with them.No cable,no basketball goal,no friends there.
I guess I can attribute a lot of reading to staying with them.No cable,no basketball goal,no friends there.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 6:59 am to Slippy
I'm almost finished with an MA in English, and I've never read The Iliad. 
Posted on 8/11/15 at 7:23 am to fightin tigers
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My thoughts exactly. I thought that and the Odyssey were required. At least once one gets in to college I would think.
Public School trash from Woodlawn didn't have to read that bullshite. And I is mo smarter than at least 4% of the OT.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 7:23 am to elprez00
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How does one make it through high school without reading the Illiad?
Cliff notes bruh. Just needed to pass the quizzes
Posted on 8/11/15 at 7:24 am to KG6
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I go back now in my late 20's and try to catch up on the books I was too lazy to read, but I missed out on a lot.
The only books I did this for were Huck Finn and Grapes of Wrath. I suggest re-reading both of those as a parent if you read them only as a teenage badass.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 7:56 am to Slippy
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If you've never read The Iliad, are you really educated?
My view is probably not. But that's me.
So you read a book, and if others didn't read the same book, they aren't educated?
Simple enough.
If you've never read The Berenstein Bears, are you really educated? My view is probably not, but that's me and I generalize others because of my lack of exposure to people other than my hipster friends.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:00 am to Slippy
I read that when I was 11. Didn't understand most of it but I read it at such a young age I must be wicked-retarded smart.
This post was edited on 8/11/15 at 8:01 am
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:01 am to Slippy
Is Homer gonna teach me how to weld or skin a deer?
If not I ain't reading that faggy Greek shite.
If not I ain't reading that faggy Greek shite.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:20 am to LucasP
The author was a complete homer.
Posted on 8/11/15 at 6:04 pm to VaBamaMan
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Faust - Germany
The Ramayana - India
One Thousand and One Nights - Tales from all over the Islamic empire, and regions touching the empire.
Divine Comedy - the preeminent work of "modern" Italy
The Aeneid - the greatest of the Latin works.
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Plato - Republic - Allegory of the cave.
Socrates' Way: Seven Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost
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