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Between Homer and Dante, who do you think wrote a better epic poem?

Errrm I'm gonna go for

C. Neither is a play...

But generally I find the homeric ballad more entertaining...

BALLAD? So it's a song?!

kyoukan wrote:BALLAD? So it's a song?!

yeah...it was like 3 albums long!...

kyoukan wrote:BALLAD? So it's a song?!

Rock anthem if I remember right!

Love that drum solo!

Heh, I edited the title, it is a ballad- written in stanza's and all that, who would want to sing 500 or 900 pages of a book...

they are both Epics tho.

and yeah, I dunno what I was thinking when I put play, my mistake


I enjoyed Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy more... I don't know why, perhaps because we reviewed it and went in depth in each of the different cantos in school, and I had to read The Odyssey as a make-up type thing in order to compare the two for a report.

I like them both but Divine Comedy is the harder read. Lots of names that wont mean anything to you so you'll need a translation with good footnotes. Which means you'll spend half your time reading those.

Arborealus wrote:

kyoukan wrote:BALLAD? So it's a song?!

yeah...it was like 3 albums long!...

4 8-tracks.

I absolutely love the Inferno. I try and read it at least every six months, it's an amazing piece of work.

Akaran_D wrote:I absolutely love the Inferno. I try and read it at least every six months, it's an amazing piece of work.

Yes!! I couldn't agree more, for some reason it fascinates me, and if I'm not reading anything else and I catch a glimpse of it somewhere in my room I'll pick it up and read a few sections.

Without the slightest doubt, the divine commedy. Although Inferno is certainly the most well-known of the three parts, Paradiso and Purgatorio are not any less incredible.
The odyssey is nice. It's also easier to read, making it much more accessible to the average reader.

Iliad > Odyssey

I thought ballads only came from the big hair rock bands!

\m/ \m/

add "Still Loving You" by Scorpions to the poll. Best ballad ever!

John & Yoko should be an option

I'm actually reading The Inferno right now, and I have one with really good footnotes. Was kinda boring at first, but now seems pretty cool, on Canto XII right now.

*snore*

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-

I've read both - the Odyssey is, imo, a much more important piece of literature and in a general sense I think Homer > Dante in most aspects

i like dante's inferno but homer has to be the winner. why? Battles man battles! heroes and heroines, betrayal and love, its good stuff!

I think "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is teh bestest ballad...