Yeah, I was thinking about that too. A kind of amusing thing about this juxtaposition is that basically no modern fiction I know of has anywhere near as much ba

Yeah, I was thinking about that too. A kind of amusing thing about this juxtaposition is that basically no modern fiction I know of has anywhere near as much bashing, thrusting, raping, and killing as the Iliad. A lot of the modern translators like Pope shrink from translating the crueler parts, resorting to vague euphemisms.