Re:I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
by spdgg on Sunday February 18, 2024 @09:49PM
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> good bedtime stories
May I suggest this? https://garethhinds.com/wp/the-odyssey/
Excellent graphic novel adaptation. The gore is mostly a set of a dozen pages towards the end, when Odysseus kills the suitors, that can easily be skipped.
Re:I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
by ahazred8ta on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:03AM
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There's another graphic novel too.
https://bigheadpress.com/otr?page=1
Re:I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
by tnecniv on Monday February 19, 2024 @12:11PM
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There’s a picture book of Greek myths my dad would read to me from when I was a kid. It toned down the gore and rape stuff (it was still there just implied so a kid won’t get it), and made for great listening as a kid before bed.
20 years later I’m in grad school and I meet some classicists. It seems basically every one of them had that book as a kid. Maybe I missed my calling
You can get quite a few good bedtime stories out of it, if you tone down the gore so the kids don't get nightmares - Circe, Polyphemus, Aeolus, Scylla and Charybdis, the sirens, the Trojan horse ...