Quote Originally Posted by Idomeneas
We re just discussing not flamming anybody. I just thing that when something is mandatory as a class its reasonable to hate it and not try to see beneath the surface. Same thing happened to me in sclool with Xenophon's anabasis. I was so bored to examine that grammar and syntax of that text that i never minded to actually notice how great work it was. After school was past, i felt really bored one day and having read everything in my library i started reading anabasis just like that. BANG!!! i was amazed! like i had never read it 100 times before. The adventures the missfortunes the journey! it had everything you need to be hooked.
So Jebus give old homer one more try. If people are amazed for thousands of years by this story there must be a good reason
Well hey, I never said I didn't like the Illiad.
Perhaps I should clear up some misunderstandings here.

1. I read the original.
2. I liked it
3. I never saw 'Troy'
4. My point was that it's pretty logical that a director is going to change some things when he's making a screenplay of a 3200 year-old-story.

Somehow, this ended up with people accusing me of not liking the Illiad...