The Iliad is Metal af. What other books contain such graphic descriptions of battke and death (ancient or modern)?
Also a side note: the way Homer mentions some unrelated quotidian fact about the dying makes they're deaths all the more powerful and vivid; especially considering that we only hear of most of these people mentioned once or twice during the story. It's kind of brutal to read.
>>8209890
their*
>>8209890
bump
>>8209890
read Blood Meridian
>>8209890
whiny ass "heroes".
>>8210261
I'm sure your could survive on a Bronze Age battlefield as a warrior a lot more than those whiners, right, anon? Or manning a Bronze Age plow as a slave. Or even as a woman, fetching water, working the loom and pumping out your lord's children.
So shut the fuck up and show some respect to your ancestors Θερσίτης, you bow-legged little bitch.
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some of the descriptions of killing in The Tain make the Iliad seem like a pleasant walk through a meadow. Don't wanna spoil anything, but it's hardcore (also way more enjoyable than the Iliad imo)
>>8210653
Can you spolied it a little for me?
Most of the classics are brutal. Read the Aeneid next for more battle
>>8210365
typical pleb responses to shit that has nothing to do with you personally.
>>8210653
>their epics are about stealing cows
>>8210794
well it tells the story of Cu Chulainn, who's basically an unstoppable badass. as a child, he kills a dog by throwing a ball through it - literally in its mouth and out the other side, ripping its guts out. there is also a particularly memorable scene in The Tain where Cu Chulainn bear hugs a guy to death, squeezing all of his insides out his asshole. there are plenty more examples very similar to that. jsut extremely gruesome deaths.
Le mort de Arthur has a lot of blood, especially with random knights and ladies getting the ax after being introduced two sentences before
>>8210855
Cool. Thanks
>>8210256
I like Cormac McCarthy too but...really?
