January 14th - Day 14

Iliad - pages 271-303 (33 pages)

Goal - 1 book 258 pages

Total - 1 book 226 pages

Result - 32 pages to reach goal

I finished through book 12 of the Iliad and stopped there, since with the Iliad reading group we're basically doing 6 books a week. However, the goal was 6 by the 9th so I'm guessing 12 by the 16th, so I only have a day or two before I'll be back reading it again for next week!

It's still going great. Usually when they've mentioned food so far it sounds good. But they did mention one thing that sounded absolutely horrible:

In this the woman like the immortals mixed them a potion

with Pramneian wine, and grated goat's-milk cheese into it

with a bronze grater, and scattered with her hand white barley into it.

When she had got the potion ready, she told them to drink it,

and both when they had drunk it were rid of their thirst's parching

Blech! Wine with grated goat's cheese and barley added to it, and then they drink it? What's so odd is that other mentions of food all sound good and not especially strange, then all the sudden this.

It's also interesting to note how old some phrases are. They've mentioned "razor's edge decision" and "teeth chattering from cold" and "pulling out hair from worry", and I double-checked against other translations to make sure it wasn't just this translator, and I would've never guessed those phrases were so old.