Reviews tagging 'Death'

La Ilíada by Homer

60 reviews

mollyrook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was not a book I ever really expected to read, but Emily Wilson's translation was so engaging and accessible that I surprisingly really enjoyed it. I love Wilson's whole premise that an English translation of Ancient Greek should be as readable to modern readers as the original would have been for ancient Greeks. 

This is nothing to do with Wilson's translation, but I was really surprised that the end came without Achilles' death, considering that that was the explicitly stated conclusion to his character arc. It certainly doesn't function as anything like a modern story arc; unlike the Odyssey, there is basically no conclusion to the story, except for Hector's funeral. The war isn't over, Achilles isn't dead, and we as readers have no sense of how that will occur.

Very fun to wrap it up on the last day of the year, and now on to Wilson's Odyssey!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

delphi_oracle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Misogyny and Slavery

pbeeandj's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Slavery, Violence, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

gabriella_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The scene with Andromache and her son had me fighting for my life. Also who doesn’t love some Patroclus and Achilles love?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War

elunia16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Colonisation

emmonsannae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

There's not much to say about this that hasn’t already been said by someone smarter. I did enjoy seeing how this is the prototype for so many of our later stories in some form or another—war and battle, carrying the past, wrestling with fate and duty, being doomed by the narrative and fighting in spite of it. There is something uniquely enduring about these stories that has imprinted itself on our collective consciousness, in the way we instinctively recognize the heart of them even if we haven't read them before (which was a cool experience for me). I did love it. It wasn't an easy read, but I enjoyed reading it. I found Fagles' translation very readable and beautifully phrased.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, and War

Moderate: Sexual violence and Slavery

herelieshenry's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Rape and Slavery

Minor: Death

sofrosune's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Estuvo mejor de lo que esperaba. Lamentablemente la Ilíada no narra la guerra de Troya en su totalidad, sino que termina con el funeral de Héctor el matador de hombres y domador de caballos, y no hay mención del caballo de Troya.

Lectura necesaria para por su valor cultural, y también para quitarse la falsa imagen presentada por la película Troya (2004).

Personaje infravalorado: Diomedes.

Consejo: NO leer la versión de la editorial Edimat, está llena de faltas ortográficas, y no posee notas ni glosario.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Death

xlbelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death