Honestly there is no reason to be intimidated by the Homeric classics. I've just finished reading the Iliad that I started sometime in July. It's been a while because I got burnt out a bit. I was grinding through it a bit too eagerly, but I made it to the end. Do I reccomend it? For sure. In one moment you have beautiful prose: an ancient commentary on the inner world of these characters, sometimes godlike, sometimes mere people who happen to be caught up in an endless war. And on the tail of that, they are now having some...