Sunday, 2 November 2008

Making the Iliad what?

Over about a month, I read a book of the Iliad each day, and then summarised it in rhyming couplets. These were originally written for my girlfriend, upon whose insistence I was reading the Iliad in the first place, but I mentioned this project to various other people, and thought I should put the results somewhere in case anyone wants to read them.

I'll try and post one each day most days, although there will probably be some weekend days when I'm not at a computer.

The whole thing is 3000 words long so it's best read in instalments.

The books vary in length from two lines (book 2, the catalogue of ships) to twenty-two lines (books 18 and 23).

At some point, I will probably have to make the Odyssey rhyme too...

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