Homer's Iliad Part B retold by A. J. Church: Link to Unit B
Notes for Reading B:
The details that Homer/Church put into this war story is unique. For example, when it comes about that Patroclus dies, the imagery Homer uses to show how loved he was even by the horses is beautiful. "And their long manes were trailed in the dust" Reading B, Part 1: The Rousing of Achilles.
Caption: Weeping for Patroclus
The stressing of how important the burial rights for a man, and even the significance of the armor a man wore to battle, are also details worth mentioning. If I were to write a story based off of the Iliad I would include somewhere that the Greeks would not eat beans for the reason that they believed they contained the souls of the dead! Source Link. This was the most interesting Greek superstition I found.
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