Hello everyone. And good afternoon. Not much is going on so I'll get straight to it.
This was a fun chapter. Homer gives more time to the gods in this chapter. I'll say that Hera is one conniving, deceptive goddess. She uses sex as a weapon against Zeus in this chapter- I think a lot of women do that. (So I've heard) There was some unintentional humor with this deception. Before Hera appears to Zeus, she makes sure that she looks here absolute best. She even borrows a little beauty trinket from the lovely Aphrodite. Zeus, upon seeing her, starts to compare her beauty to a pretty long list of his past conquests.
I'm no expert, but I don't think women like to be compared to their man's past conquests. I guess Zeus isn't the brightest bolt in the storm cloud. Either way, Hera's plan succeeds. With Zeus preoccupied and exhausted after his close encounter our good buddy Poseidon is free to spur on the Greeks. It's not going well for the Trojans. Even Hektor has some bad luck-- in the form of a giant boulder beating him unconscious. And that's that.
I realized something today. Even if I read one volume of the Great Books a month, I wouldn't be done for 5 years. Good thing I can be patient. Troy wasn't felled in a day. It actually took about 10 years.
That's about it for me. Bye.
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