Drinking game

Drinking game

take a sip every time you read "Son of -"

>Son of Atreus
>Son of Telamon
>Bastard Son of Priam

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son of a gun :3c

>and his armor clattered upon him

>lunged like wolves

>Son of
is just an inflectional ending in the original Greek.

>He threw a spear at [Great Hero] but missed and hit [never before mentioned name] right below his chin and darkness swept over his eyes

ROSY

>putting little white dicks on the cover of a book

they're cute little dicks :3333c

>Imagine a mountain lion...
>Imagine a wild boar being chased by hunters...
>Imagine a flock of sheep...

You could do that with the Genesis in the bible too.

>take a shot every time a character weeps
So how long would you last Veeky Forums?

>how long would you last
>implying I haven't already raped my liver with alcohol

Take a shot every time a character is referred to by an alternate name
>Dido, Elissia
>Ascanius, Iulus
>Mercury, Cylenius
Etc, etc

>[never before mentioned name]
Looks like someone skipped the chapter introducing everyone on all the ships heading to Troy.

This was so confusing. What exactly was the point of that?

Probably some poetic reason

It's literally just Ovid being pedantic. Homer didn't pull that bullshit.

same reason Homer attaches all those epithets, it helps with the meter.

You missed "master of the war cry" user

The ships had already landed (9 years ago) by the time the catalog takes place though???

>order this with cool looking cover bookdepository.com/The-Aeneid-Virgil-Robert-Fagles/9780143105138
>get pic related

What the fuck man

...

serves you right for reading Fagles, fag

Faglesfag is more worried about the cover than the content why am I not surprised

>Not learning Latin for Virgil
I'm disgusted.

Iliad becomes my favorite book the more I reread specific passages, all it once it can be derivative but there are some incredible moments

the food analogy of the antiquity

>son of
Shitty translation.