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- pox05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just call me "Professor Diggle" lol
but no, this is awesome! - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn! I was going to use "Dr. Diggle" for my porn career.
Oh well! Dugg anyway.
Regarding Illiad = boring: It's the same deal as Shakespeare's plays; it was meant to be performed, not read. Except the Illiad is much worse than Shakespeare's plays, because the author never even wrote it down. We have to rely on a progression of interpretations and translations by generations of dried up scholars who didn't even start until several hundred years after the fact. - jiub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0blixel:
Have you seen http://www.gutenberg.org/? It is a site with 16,000 ebooks and contains pretty much all of the classics. - havock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome, love that stuff.
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...and he did it with the help of Google Maps!
- adminmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i probably would have liked the books more if they weren't being shoved down my throat by my teachers.
very interesting find. - blixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is really cool. Wish I had a double digg option for this!
I started reading the Iliad earlier this year (unfortunately I didn't finish) - but it's an amazing work. (Though Book II is pretty hard to read. The ship's log is just boring.)
You can read it online from a variety of sources. Here's the one I was reading: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html
You can also read The Odyssey: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/odyssey.html - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Odyssey was ruined for me because of all the modern references to it. I already knew the ending by the time I got to the middle, and I already knew about the sirens, cyclops, circe, etc before the start.
- warofwrath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The moral of the story is: don't be too quick to doubt the ancients.
And yes I completely agree with the "modern references" complaint. Some literature just doesn't translate into modern cliches well. - capran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's pretty cool. First Troy now Ithaca. I wonder if this lends credence to Odysseus having been a real person. Also makes you wonder how much of the story was also true.
- elShaggy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats great that some guy found it, but where are the pictures?
- TheGooseyOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digging just because that guys name is Dr. Diggle...with 2 g's
- Nirelyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is an awesome story, +DIGG
- darkfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nope i found it first ;) thanks to google maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=greece&ll=38.282391,20.582886&spn=0.485417,0.962814&t=k&hl=en - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0DUPE
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0^oops^ ABOVE COMMENT WAS AN ACCIDENT ^oops^
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