And actually, if you look at this piece of dialogue here, this particular example it is a moment And for "The Iliad ," I did basically the same process as "The Odyssey," except I decided instead of real pencil, I was going to digitally pencil using
And actually, if you look at this piece of dialogue here, this particular example it is a moment For "The Iliad ," a big part of it was, do they have the right shield strap?
Here's another wonderful description of a dream experience that I think many of us have that's from a very old work of literature. Homer's "Iliad ." So this is when Hector has gone outside of the city walls of Troy to meet Achilles. And Homer says, "As in a dream, a man chasing another cannot catch him.
out there. But I think it's very important for people to learn to write in the first person and find their voice, speak from the heart, In The Iliad , the two teams-- the Trojans and the Greeks-- have leaders, and every now and then there's a great moment where one of the leaders gives a speech to their troops to rally them to the next battle.
See what I did there? And then that brings me to "The Iliad ," which just came out last week. And again, this was something that I had been looking forward to doing, but also dreading and putting off a little bit,
Still often end up with a bad month at the end right there-- 11 extra pages. This is what my schedule looked like for "The Iliad ." It was going along great. I was even on schedule right here.
right everyone's life was like that until just a millennium before Christ as proof he James offered an analysis of The Iliad and the early books of the Old Testament in which all the characters behave like puppets mindlessly following Divine orders without ever having any
Women had no agency. I mean, if you read the "Iliad " and the "Odyssey, the most woman did was hold off suitors, or she was kidnapped and brought to another city as a prize. That was it. Women had no agency whatsoever.
I had caught up, and then my wife and I actually ended up moving twice. And so that threw everything off, so I actually delivered "The Iliad " later than I've ever delivered a book before. I ended up delivering it five months late.
it's very difficult to say if she was a lesbian or not. And it's worth remembering she was doing all of this about a millennium and a half before Homer was tackling "The Iliad " and "The Odyssey."
They're in two completely separate worlds. What would the world be like if your choices were, write the entire "Iliad " or nothing?
in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Tran family struggled to assimilate into their new life. In this coming of age memoir, told through the themes of books such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Iliad ," and more, Phuc Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion.
And the idea went this way. You could imagine the context of searching for, say, "The Iliad ." Which version of a whole bunch of editions of "The Iliad "