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The Odyssey by Homer
3.0

Not going to lie: was expecting more.

The most interesting thing to me was the various incarnations/descriptions of the Dawn. The rest, kinda "meh." I mean, interesting in how fickle the gods are, but otherwise thought it'd be something more. I did feel the loss of reading translation at multiple points. But obv. I'm not learning greek just to get through it at a deeper level, so there you have it.

Other interesting things to me:
The frame narrative (stories within stories within stories)
The female archetypes (Patient Penolope, Seductive Circe, Bad-ass- but totally fickle- Athene, etc.)
The role of forgiveness (or lack thereof)
other nerdy things...