>"Troy" after Schliemann was no longer a dream, but a place on the map.
>As a boy, not long after Schliemann's death, [Joyce] had responded to Lamb's retelling of the story. By 1906 he wanted to write a story of his own, set in Dublin and called "Ulysses." Eight years later he was seriously at work on what he had rethought as a larger project, a book whose hero should move around a single city as Homer's had moved around the Mediterranean.
we're putting together a Ulysses reading group over on /lit/ chat at https://discord.gg/01016TZPAPUILvYGe
we have the #Ulysses channel, and also a #general channel for general literary/off-topic discussions. "/soc/ing" is not a "thing" in this chat if you are worried about that, and we're all fairly decent ppl, so give it a shot at least.
(if you don't have a copy of Ulysses, wow, what a pleb. you can get the epub/kindle version from one of us.)
>ulysses reading group
lol it's gonna fail in a week senpai, no one here reads
Here is the bare minimum need to read before embarking on this odyssey:
A book or two about the discovery of the Aegean civilisations
Detailed history of Ancient Greece
Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid
Divine Comedy
Linear B Archives
Homeric Hymns
Orphic Hymns
Scholiasts on Homer
Apollodorus
Diodorus
Plato
Aristotle
Presocratics (esp. Heraclitus)
Celtic myths and history
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>>8031761
>books required for understanding Ulysses
>history of Ancient Greece?
>Ulysses takes place in Dublin? hello?
>no mention of Meme Trilogy books I and II whatsoever
wew OK how about we read this first though and see what happens
https://discord.gg/01016TZPAPULpxT67
>>8031874
Wew lad
https://discord.gg/01016TZPAPUIqCG6S
new link, in case any readers appear on /lit/
>>8031761
What about Metamorphoses?
>>8031761
>all this required reading
kek. i read it even before i read dubliners or portrait of an artist. and guess what, it was fucking amazing. ineluctable modality of the visible up in dat ass, bitch.
May 16th to June 16th would be cool
>>8031761
Ulysses isn't some kind of pat on the back for knowing all the references, it can be read purely for the sounds of the prose
invite expired
i wanna join
>>8033989
nvm
heres one just in case
https://discord.gg/01016TZPAPUJdarIH
>>8031761
So wrong. You really only need to have read the Portrait. Otherwise, having a Linati schema and the Wikipedia article on the Odyssey ready to hand will do just fine.
I recommend having a copy of the Gifford Annotated as well, and if you're bad at reading in general, the Blamires "Bloomsday Book," which summarizes the action of each episode. It's ok to admit you're bad at reading, btw. Most people are before they finish Ulysses.
are there going to be threads? I probably won't bother using the chat thing
>>8034102
Portrait AND Dubliners tbqhwy blood relative
>>8034192
I might post some threads. discussions begin May 15 btw (Sunday).
