OK. I can't let this rest.
So maybe,
just maybe
Homer's Achilles
can talk like a
whiny worm man,
but ZEUS?
The Iliad, Book Eight, 1-12 Translated by Michael Reck
(I've cut the mediocre parts, and left you with the "best" of the worst.)
Thunderlord Zeus summoned a meeting...
and delivered the following harangue:
"Listen here, all you gods and goddesses...
none of you gentleman or lady gods
dare go against me--do as I say...
If I should see anyone sneaking off...
I'll smash him with my awful thunderbolt..."
AHAHA! I'll run 'im down with my tonka toy and throw my shoe at 'im!
Posted by: kamelda at October 30, 2004 11:08 AMI just had to chuckle when I read this post! It is just so true! I took a class in Classic/medival lit with Dr. Karen Silvester and was struck over and over again with how the gods were simply personified human lusts!
Hilarious.
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