Spoiler for who that is: She’s Hector’s wife.Specifically, gods such as Zeus and goddesses such as Hera and Athena actively participated in the initiation and fate of the Trojan war (Homer, Iliad, Line 200). Also it seems like the second syllable is usually emphasized. I can see names giving people some problems, but having an audiobook version to refer to, or just googling pronunciation should help. This is a pretty good website for Greek Mythology: I do think this will be a challenging read, but challenge accepted. I’ve always enjoyed Greek Mythology, and this is certainly one of history’s most famous stories. I plan to pick a better translation this time and hopefully I’ll be able to get more out of it. I just went with a free version in my e-reader but only got about halfway through it. Then I set my sights on reading The Iliad. I watched the Brad Pitt/Eric Bana movie Troy afterwards too. I thought she did a fantastic adaptation of the story. I read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller a few years ago. We hope you can join us as we begin another classic. And let us know which translation you plan to use. Please feel free to share your thoughts or ask any questions you may have below. For everyone else it should be Mondays-Fridays. For folks in the Western Hemisphere the discussion threads will go up in the evening/night Sundays-Thursdays. Note again that we will only be reading on weekdays. We will make a separate announcement post for Tess of the D’Ubervilles. With only reading weekdays this will run for five weeks. We will put up a reading schedule soon, but we should be starting this somewhere around the week of September 5th. You can search their site to compare versions. There are multiple versions available from Gutenberg. Here are some free versions of The Iliad if you would like to download them or save the links to read or listen online. So congratulations Tess of the D’Ubervilles! Tess will be read following the conclusion of The Iliad.

This story is divided into 24 books, and though we’ve changed our reading format to weekdays only, we still have the contingency rule that if any book less than 28 chapters wins the vote, we also read the second place book. Reading a few pages of different translations is a good way to see which version is a good fit for you. It mostly boils down to personal preference. There is no right or wrong answer for picking a translation. Here’s a pretty thorough write up on different translations from a fellow redditor. This book was originally published in Ancient Greek so most people will likely need a translation. Hello ClassicBookClubbers, The Iliad by Homer has won the vote and will be our next read!

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