Goal - 2 books 113 pages
Total - 2 books 29 pages
Result - 84 pages to reach goal
These Iliad people still cracking me up. Have you ever seen the film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"? Imagine that absurdity and craziness of that set in Ancient Greece focusing on a major battle and the Gods watching it.
It's the gods that are the absurd/crazy part. They go back and forth, they intervene then decide to let it be then decide to intervene again. They argue with each other, lie to each other, backstab each other, and then do it all again.
For instance, just recently Zeus had ordered the gods to stop intervening and just let what happens, happen. So they all go back up to Olympos and wait it out. But of course Hera gets itchy feet and can't wait any longer, so devises a plan to seduce Zeus and make him go to sleep so that Poseidon can openly help the Achaians. So first she has to get help from Aphrodite and lies to her, telling her she needs seduction help so that she can visit distant god relatives in the Ocean who're having a marital squabble and so she can intervene and fix it. Aphrodite believes her and gives her her seduction belt.
Then Hera goes to Sleep, a god, and tries to get him to put Zeus into a slumber after she's seduced him. He won't at first, telling her how he helped her do that once before when she was plotting something in another story, and Zeus almost destroyed him if he hadn't went running to the goddess Night and hidden behind her. But she convinces him by promising him some other minor goddess as a wife for his troubles that he's had a crush on, so he agrees.
So the plan works and Zeus falls asleep and Poseidon helps the war. Then when Zeus wakes up he's mad and calls Hera the "hopeless one" who's always deceiving him. But then she plays dumb and says it wasn't her, that Poseidon did it on his own, so he forgives her and tells her to go get Apollo and his messenger Iris to come to him so he can send Iris to Poseidon to tell him to stop and for Apollo to help the other side.
So she goes, but then when she gets to the other gods what does she do but go on and on about how Zeus is against them all and wants to destroy them and baits Ares into going back into war by talking about how Zeus let his mortal son be killed during the war. So Ares gets all mad and decides to go into war even if it means Zeus will destroy him. But Athene saves the day by talking sense into him before he goes.
And so it goes. And that's only one part of one chapter! LOL.
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