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Ah, Homer. I had a long talk about “The Iliad” with brother Todd last night and it really makes me want to read it again. Is it my favorite book? That’s tough to say. Probably. Achilles is one my favorite characters of all time and it’s hard to come up with a book I could say is better than “The Iliad.” |
The conversation also made me want to re-read all the tragedies. Well, maybe not all the tragedies–I don’t think I need to read Aeschylus’ “The Persians” anytime soon–but another look at the Orestia, The Bacchae, the Oedipus plays and Antigone…all so very, very good. I read them all in a chunk in 1997. Now that the saga list has run low maybe I’ll add a tragedy or two between books.