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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:09PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:09PM (#456230) Journal

    The nearest equivalent is the second book of the Iliad, in which Homer lists out in painstaking detail how many ships each of the Greek city-states sent and who was leading the contingent.

    Really? The Iliad put me in stitches at points. Spending half a page going on and on about how awesome this dude was, how shiny and strong his shield was, how like a son of Zeus he was, and...he's abruptly cut in half by a spear. We turned it into a drinking game.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 20 2017, @01:01PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday January 20 2017, @01:01PM (#456503)

    Most of the Iliad is fantastic writing - there's a reason it's stuck around for about 2700 years.

    The section I'm talking about, though, is often called the catalogue of ships [poetryintranslation.com], and it's a long list of how many ships each city-state brought and who was leading the contingent. It's almost as boring as the begats in the Bible.

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    • (Score: 2) by Jerry Smith on Tuesday January 24 2017, @04:44PM

      by Jerry Smith (379) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @04:44PM (#458140) Journal

      We had to learn some of the begats by heart ._.

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