There is one omen
I still am reading The Iliad. I can’t decide if I’m happy about it or not. The story is good but here is the part that sucks… because the translation is a bit flowery, at the beginning of each chapter there is a 1 paragraph summary of what happens in the chapter. So after reading that it almost makes it ridiculous to force myself through the the chapter. Regardless, I seem to keep doing it.
Want an update? The Trojans pushed the Greeks back to the shore, then the Greeks built a wall. Then the Trojans smashed through it, then the Greeks pushed them back outside the wall. All of the back and forth is largely because Gods are messing with the whole thing… Zeus, Poseiden, Hera…. the whole group of them. It makes you wonder who the story is actually about. Do the lives of the men matter or is it the chess game of the Gods that should be more interesting?
Regardless, there is a quote that I bookmarked a few chapters back. Hector says to Polydamas, “There is one omen, and one only —that a man should fight for his country.”
-Now there’s something patriotic for a change.
