I may get hit over the head by people who are MOAR HARDCORE CLASSICISTS, but I find it hard to believe that reading the Iliad would be an efficient use of an English finalist's time. Yes, it is awesome, but its awesomeness can be appreciated perfectly well by reading about 6 highlights of 200 lines each.
Anyway, you've probably read the Iliad. I hadn't until I came to Oxford and studied it in the first term. I'd actually seen the film "Troy" before I read the Iliad. I can't tell very many people this.
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Everyone was thinking the same, hence the humour. He sort of looked at our faces and then amended it to "or the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition, at this stage in the game".
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(The poem came up during a revision meeting, my tutor's advice today on the mandatory Troilus & Criseyde commentary paper: "read The Iliad". Jesus.)
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Anyway, you've probably read the Iliad. I hadn't until I came to Oxford and studied it in the first term. I'd actually seen the film "Troy" before I read the Iliad. I can't tell very many people this.
Really I have nothing substantive to say. I just wanted to use this icon.
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