" In high school, I read a rewritten short prose version of The Odyssey and I wanted to re-read it in a poetic version, but I decided to first read this. In hindsight, I'm not sure I was ready for this book yet. First I have a very limited knowledge of Greek mythology so I didn't know most of the gods with the exception of the main ones such as Zeus and I didn't know most of the Trojan war background and for the most part this book assumes you know both. I was also expecting this to be more like the Odyssey, but instead there is almost no plot and its just battle scene after battle scene with the repeated formula of X fought Y son of Z ...description of how Y died, and then repeat. It got very tedious at parts. I think I might like it more on a later reread though after I read through a book of Greek mythology and now I know more of what to expect. I did enjoy the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles, along with the parts where the gods are petty and always arguing (I got a good laugh at the scene where Zeus is full of lust and trying to seduce Hera), very anthropomorphic. "
— David, 11/27/2013