Saying goodbye to the Iliad...

... forever rest in piece, you immense amount of reading.

Ah, but it was a good read. I'm not one for action-based novels usually, but this is one bloody book that I have no issues with. Of course, now I'm hyped up to read the Aeneid and Odyssey to see how Achilleus' fate is going to play out.

I honestly don't have much to say on the matter, but there are a few of questions that I can think of.

While I was reading the book, I often wondered what the person (or persons, due to all the skepticism) was thinking about relative to society when writing the book. Did he/they (assuming by default it wasn't a woman, but for obvious reasons... bite me) intentionally correlate the social issues of the humans with the gods? Were the gods supposed to be revered by the reader, or questioned about their habits? Motives were often an obvious thing, until we started talking in class about how the actions of the gods could also be seen as simply fulfilling the fates. Is that how the writer(s) wanted it to be seen? Or were any of these questions even considered by writer or reader during its time?

My questions stem from class discussions and such, but they link into my original curiosity: what were the intentions of the writer for the reader? I can't even speculate, nor would I want to -- that's a time-period I know very little about. But I would definitely like to go back to that time and hear the responses of people who had read the book. I wouldn't ever want to go back far enough to find out who wrote it. That's too classic of a mystery to debunk for me. :)

P.S. Commented on Amy's blog, 'The issue of FATE'.