Well, come August, the blog returns to its usual activity, at least for this month.
Anyone who has read The Iliad, by Homer, will have seen that in the battles, meticulously described, there are a lot of characters (not only warriors but also capricious gods) which sometimes confuse the reader. To help in reading or rereading of the work, the author of The Flying Fish, great cultural blog, has compiled data on different graphs of the work (number of casualties caused by each leader, number of ships of each army, etc.) and outlined what happens in every battle. This is a great idea and carefully crafted, allowing us to better enjoy the work and even go to a particular passage, we can follow step by step.
PS: If I have time, and making my recent stay in Dublin, might do something similar with Joyce's Ulysses ...
Anyone who has read The Iliad, by Homer, will have seen that in the battles, meticulously described, there are a lot of characters (not only warriors but also capricious gods) which sometimes confuse the reader. To help in reading or rereading of the work, the author of The Flying Fish, great cultural blog, has compiled data on different graphs of the work (number of casualties caused by each leader, number of ships of each army, etc.) and outlined what happens in every battle. This is a great idea and carefully crafted, allowing us to better enjoy the work and even go to a particular passage, we can follow step by step.
PS: If I have time, and making my recent stay in Dublin, might do something similar with Joyce's Ulysses ...
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