#iliad
The Halloween costume of a friend's kid over the weekend. The war cry is what really makes it work. @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social @dmfwv.bsky.social
November 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I just read Book 19 out of 24 of the Iliad and Achilles finally did something
November 5, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Iliad 5.540
November 3, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Archaeologists have used the Iliad as a guide to locate shipwrecks off the coast of Greece.
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November 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Achilles (ܐܟܠܘܣ) with a lyre on the right and Patroclus (ܦܛܪܩܠܣ) on the left, scene from book 9 of the Iliad

Mosaic with Syriac Aramaic inscriptions from Edessa, kingdom of Osroene, 3rd century CE
November 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
After watching poet-actor Christopher Logue as Richelieu in The Devils, it's time to return to his Iliad, beautiful, controversial, and utterly compelling. I love this book ......
November 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Iliad 21.319
November 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
People say this but then read the Iliad and so on. I think a lot of it has to do with what gets labelled poetry.
November 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Don’t tell me autism didn’t exist in Ancient Greece and Rome, someone had to remember every line of the Iliad and it sure wasn’t Pliny the Neurotypical
I could remember all the basic trigonometry functions, but instead, I remember every lyric to sugar ray’s “fly”
October 29, 2026 at 7:06 PM
We tend to lump together every sort of transformative work. Virgil writing the Aenid, picking up from Homer’s Iliad, is “fanfic” in the same way that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is. And on one level, yes. But removing the role of capitalism in this process flattens the conversation.
November 3, 2026 at 10:34 AM
and got into the legends of iliad zine. hoo
November 1, 2026 at 6:15 PM
On UN #InternationalDayforPreventingtheExploitationoftheEnvironmentinWarandArmedConflict, The Iliad depicts the belief that the timber of Mount Ida was an infinite resource. The pines of Ida are now endangered. I wrote about this
November 6, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I literally decided to read the entire Iliad so I could read and fully appreciate her poem Memorial, lol
November 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
October reading... a retelling of The Iliad from the female perspective, an exploration of neo-Luddism, some off-kilter short stories from Cornwall and the second in Alan Moore's brilliant 'Long London' series.

#booksky 📚💙
November 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The Alexandrian scholars sometimes have seemed to be closet standup comics. I can almost imagine them complaining about authenticity and saying stuff like "Take book 9 of the Iliad....please!"
November 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
My most conservative impulse is that sometimes I see people reading, like, a Curtis Yarvin essay or a modern fantasy novel that is isomorphic with the DreamWorks Face, and I want to slide a classic between them and the screen. Something fun like The Iliad or Shakespeare. Anything but that drek.
November 5, 2026 at 2:20 PM
What we can all learn from The Iliad‘s opening lines.
A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad‘s Opening Lines
The first verses of the Iliad cleverly set up what will follow. Achilles’ wrath laid “countless pains on the Achaeans”: su­ffering and tragedy, we realize, will be prominent in what is to com…
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November 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
CapsuleCustoms joins the battle!

Over the next few months I'll be working on my entry for Vol.2 of the Iliad Zine!

My entry is under embargo until early 2027. But I'm excited to get started on it!
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November 2, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Attend: The New Shield of Achilles: Chivalry and Romance in the Marciana 'Iliad' Illustrations, lecture by Carlo Berardi, Princeton University, November 17, 2026, 4:30–6:00 pm. Advance registration requested maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-new...
The New Shield of Achilles: Chivalry and Romance in the Marciana ‘Iliad’ Illustrations | Mary Jaharis Center
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November 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
November 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Grab one now! 'The Iliad (Penguin Classics Kindle edition)' by Homer, translated by E V Rieu, is just $0.99 today.
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November 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM
i should read the iliad and the odyssey.
November 6, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I gave up pub quizzes after the question "What was the name of Homer's epic poem?". We put the Iliad. Apparently the Odyssey was the right answer.
November 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Your day will be like...

the shrieking of cranes flying up into the sky, fleeing the winter and its rain. Off they go across the Ocean to bring murder and death to the Pygmies.

Iliad 3.3-7
November 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM
From “Xanthus: A Hippiad” by A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social (the Iliad as told by a horse!):

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But that was just the beginning of the trouble, with Agamemnon and the master, Lord Ache-to-Kill, the lord of pain.
November 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM