The Illiad: Schedule

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“The anger of Achilles for the loss of Briseis” (1769)
Artist: Domenico Cunego

Reading Schedule

Books 1-3: January 1 - January 6
Books 4-6: January 7 - January 13

Books 7-9: January 14 - January 27

Books 10-12: January 28 - February 10

Books 13-15: February 11- February 24

Books 16-18: February 25- March 10

Books 19-21: March 11 - March 24

Books 22-24: March 25 - April 8

The rules are quite easygoing and the schedule is mostly meant to provide structure to discussions. Each week I'll put up a discussion post focusing on the chapters in the reading, though you, of course, may bring up past chapters in newer posts.

(I do ask if you post something from a future chapter - for example, posting about Book 5 in Book 1-3's post - that you mark it in the title with spoilers to try to keep new readers from being accidentally spoiled. Everyone may know the rough idea of this work but certainly not every detail will be known to every reader.)

You may read ahead if you'd like to, and if you fall behind I'll post summaries to try to keep everyone up to speed on the most important facts. I am admittedly winging it a bit in terms of how much reading per week - my goal was to try to keep it in the fifty to one hundred page range, since it isn't always easy reading. I opted for 3 chapters instead of 4 because I felt more often than not, the narrative hit a better end-point in the third chapter instead of the fourth. I'm all ears for constructive crit on how to adjust the schedule going forward.

EDIT: I have updated the schedule as it was proving too much to do 3 chapters per week for the group. We will be doing 3 chapters every two weeks from now on. Hopefully the slower schedule will help!