Giveaway Contest: To celebrate 2020, we’re giving away twenty paperback classics featuring Truman Capote, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Agatha Christie, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D
To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on February 29, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!
Final chance! We’re choosing a random winner in the next few hours, so reblog now!
…the Iliad used conventional epic events and heroes to challenge the heroic view of war. Is a warrior ever justified in challenging his commander? Must he sacrifice his life for someone else’s cause? How is a catastrophic war ever allowed to start—and why, if all parties wish it over, can it not be ended? Giving his life for his country, does a man betray his family? Do the gods countenance the war’s slaughter? Is a warrior’s death compensated by his glory?
— The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander.
everybody STOP misinterpreting the secret history it’s not about the folly of mankind or greek myth come alive or the darkness that lives in all of us….it’s about being gay and stupid. and doing cocaine
