The Iliad by Homer

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad

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Stuff We Talked About

• We read different translations of this here gruesome volume - Kristianne had the Robert Fagles and Greg read the Carolyn Alexander

• Want to understand the Iliad? This is the only infographic you need

• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

• The War that Killed Achilles by Carolyn Alexander

• Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves

• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

• The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson

• Our ridiculous episode about The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

• Shakespeare's Second Best Bet

• The Myths and Legends Podcast

• Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read!

What Are We Reading? (That Isn't Related to the Iliad)

Greg:

• Devil House by John Darnielle (also Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester)

What Song Did We Choose?

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