How did Menelaus hold a "firm grasp" on running water? This book is stupid.
How is the sea like wine? It's blue, dude. Was Homer fucking blind or something?
>>7847833
i dont remember it... give me the passage
was it a river-god or whatever? b/c they treat of those guys weirdly (i think synecdochically is the word)
Why didn't Penelope and son just ask the suitors to leave?
WHEN YOUNG DAWN WITH HER ROSE-RED FINGERS SHONE ONCE MORE WHEN YOUNG DAWN WITH HER ROSE-RED FINGERS SHONE ONCE MORE WHEN YOUNG DAWN WITH HER ROSE-RED FINGERS SHONE ONCE MORE WHEN YOUNG DAWN WITH HER ROSE-RED FINGERS SHONE ONCE MORE
>>7847875
>>art
Love the part where Helen is talking about her causing the Trojan War
>launching your headlong battles just for my sake, shameless whore that I was
Why didn't they just use the horse at the beginning?
>>7847875
Triggered.
>>7847892
>fagles
>>7847899
That's the book in the OP yeah
>>7847902
We are talking about Homer in general until decided otherwise.
>>7847857
Menelaus and his men are stuck on an island because they didn't make offerings to the gods before leaving on their trip. They're told if they capture one of a Gods who lives on the island he'll tell them how to get home so they dress up in seal skins and lie on the beach and wait for him. When they capture him he tries to escape by turning into various forms including running water. They somehow hold on.
>haveatripod.jpg
Why doesn't the book just start on chapter 5?
>>7847931
It's necessary for the end to make sense
>>7847931
I always start reading with Chapter 5 and then go back after Odysseus finishes his story. Or I just stop reading there.
>>7847910
I think when magic gets involved that sort of thing goes out the window. I'm sure Fraser will have written about this in the Golden Bough.
>thinking your engish translation is canon
If you read the original it would make a lot more sense
>>7847833
Homer BTFO
>>7848691
dumb furposter gb2 /trash/
>>7848696
what is wrong with liking cute animated bunnies?
