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That-Requirement-285 t1_j28ru4n wrote

Mein Kampf aside… Atlas Shrugged? Also, The Odyssey at 20 but Iliad at 4? Shouldn’t they be close together?

Other than that, the rest are mostly shit you see on regular top 100 books of all time lists.

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RomeoTrickshot t1_j2b2tff wrote

Odyssey is miles better than the iliad

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GFVeggie t1_j2b4gmi wrote

I think the other way around. To each his own.

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Diogenes56 t1_j2bnbgu wrote

Instead of comparing them, consider this take espoused by some Classicists: there are two types of people, Iliad people and Odyssey people.

A colleague shared that with me (I also prefer the Odyssey).

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That-Requirement-285 t1_j2b6gsk wrote

I prefer Odyssey to the Iliad but I just preferred the subject matter more in general.

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