I have a signed first edition of The Epic of Gilgamesh
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I know this totally makes me "that guy", but it could very well be a signed first edition of a specific translation of the Iliad.
I don't think anyone cares that much about a translator's signature, but who knows.
I'm sure the Jlo slop vehicle meant this
Nerds do. I wouldn’t mind a signed copy of Tolkien’s Beowulf.
That reminds me. A friend of mine translated a German Longsword fighting manual. I need to get her to sign my copy.
Fitzgerald or Lattimore?
Hit that Pope translation. Heroic couplets ftw.
Well, I am due for a re-read. Thanks for the suggestion!
That sounds remarkably like a shitpost the writer put in to see if the audience or actors were paying attention.
A lot of hollywood writers and especially script doctors aren't really well versed in literature or ancient world classics, it's not germane to the form they produce. I know a hollywood writer and he certainly didn't graduate with an MA in English.
Those writers probably wouldn't have referenced The Iliad then. This was either a writer's joke or the script just had [insert prop book] in the script and The Iliad was what was handy.
Signed by Homer J Simpson even
Oh wow, that really is a first edition! All the later ones were signed: Homer Jay Simpson
I had a first edition bible signed by everyone except Paul, that asshole. Flipped it for a cool $50 in a garage sale though.
But you hung on to Methuselah's rookie card, right?
I had the foil Lazarus from the Bethany Trio, but couldn't ever find a Mary or Martha to complete the set. 🤷🏼♂️
Once, I thought I pulled Jesus Blessing His Descilples at Bethany, but when I looked again it was just the disciples. 🤷♂️
I'd have paid at least $55 for Ringos signature alone.
Well that would be an amazing gift, now wouldn't it.
Buy a copy of the Illiad and get Dan Castellaneta to sign it.
I bet people have done that before, and I bet he loves it.
Totally worth the multimillion dollar facility you'd have to build around it to keep it from disintegrating.
Nothing compared to my signed first edition Necronomicon.
Ia, Shub Niggurath!
Homer practiced oral history, written 1st ed would've been someone else, Plato perhaps
Was it a 9.4 or higher, cause otherwise, it's trash.
Doh!