Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Part 5)

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Liv reads Book 4 and part of 5 of the Fall of Troy, translated by AS Way. After the death of Achilles, the Greeks honour him with funeral games held by Thetis. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

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1:48.7	And I am back with another reading of the Fall of Troy.
1:54.2	We are continuing on from last weeks, which was book four and then part of book five,
2:03.0	and featured the funeral games for Achilles. It ended with the introduction that we're doing the final portion of the
2:10.3	funeral games, basically, and that would be the fight over Achilles' armor, which, of course, was like 10 to 15 minutes of me reading
2:21.8	just the description of his armor, because it is incredible. It is meant to be the most
2:26.3	wondrous, divine, godly made thing that these mortal heroes could ever imagine. And that is why Ajax, the great,
2:39.7	and Odysseus are about to fight for it. Just another reminder that this translation is
2:46.9	incredibly old and sometimes uses language. I try to adjust in the moment things like
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