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I have to admit that I have not read the Illias or the Odyssey in school, either. We were made read books in school intendet to make children shy away from books, so they won’t touch any of them after school ever again.

Luckily I had read loads of good books by that time, so I knew that only a few are as horrible as the ones they made us read in school.

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NIB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
There are basic versions of these stories with big drawings, mostly made for kids. Basically manga. When i was a kid(in Greece), 35 years ago, i had this

www.stratikis.gr/wp-content/…/iliada-nea.jpg

This is Iliad and it was cooler than Odyssey. Badass dudes with almost divine powers fighting other dudes, while Gods are taking sides and fucking things up. Basically shonen.

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- Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I first read the classic translation by Schwab when I was ten or eleven.
  
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It does feel a lot like that, doesn’t it? Why else would the Bronte sisters be on the curriculum if not to snuff out any interest in literature?

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- Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It could be worse. We read Brecht and Kafka. Several works of them. I’ve never encountered worse waste of paper and ink than those idiots. And the rest was not much better.
  
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  - arken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Just because it was wasted on you doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, Kafka’s short stories especially (Die Verwandlung, Ein Landarzt etc) are accessible for teenagers and a good gateway drug to get interested in other things. Which is really important for kids that don’t have natural access to literature at home.
    
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    Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sorry, but I experienced “Die Verwandlung” as written diarrhea of a person with severe mental problems. “Der Prozess” didn’t improve my opition of him, either.
    
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- arken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Only boring kids would find Wuthering Heights & Jane Eyre boring. Both books would be excellent choices in any curriculum. If you wanna talk boring early 19th century authors, Jane Austen is the name you’re looking for.
  
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  - captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I found Wuthering Heights more miserable than boring.
    
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teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
the illias and the odyssey are ancient greek literature, I don’t think they’re that fun to read.

But, you still should be taught about their existence in history.

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- Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  They were more fun to read than the sh-t the forced down our throats in school. At least Homer knew how to write a story.
  
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