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Someone today will read Shakespeare's hamlet and say omg he's just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it's ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don't read classics because they're old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That's what makes stories so powerful--they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

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renthony

This post reminds me of a time when I was a teenager, and my English teacher gave us an assignment about the Iliad. We were told to choose a character from the story and pick out a "theme song" for them. It could be anything--modern, classic, orchestral, pop, anything you thought represented the character. Some people picked TV theme songs, some people picked church hymns, some people picked some stuff off the Top 40 at the time.

I chose this as a theme for Achilles, and have associated it with the Iliad ever since:

#tw Matt Damon
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tyltos

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Actually that checks out

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Goncharov (1973)

"I would say it was time well spent if the last I ever saw was you."

-Goncharov to Andrey Daddano, from the movie Goncharov (1973).
Little fanart I did of this incredible movie, go watch it!!