The writer Martin Cristal it seems to perfectly comply with the canons of the well-known theory that maintains that every good writer is undoubtedly a good reader first. And the materials that throughout 2009 he has been sharing on his blog with all Internet users give a good account of this.
«If I had to recommend in what order to read these works, I would say that the Odyssey is a friendlier reading to start [before the Iliad]. The adventures of Ulysses back home are more varied than the military details of the ninth year of the war in Troy. The Iliad demands a more careful reading so as not to get lost in its tangle of proper names, its ups and downs - attacks and defenses, retreats and counterattacks, hand-to-hand duels - the deceitful actions of gods with opposing wills and the stream of spoils of war and wounds. mortals that the text describes in detail. ', account on your blog. And it is precisely this abundance of data that has led Cristal to schematize the work of Homer in a series of cards –which, by the way, have a very attractive design– in order to facilitate reading.
Until today, and a few months to end 2009, he has published diagrams of the songs II (continuation), III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII y XIV of the Iliad (here they are all pointed and linked, as an external index). This means that, taking into account that there are 24 rhapsodies that make up the Iliad, Martín Cristal has already outlined a good part of them. Each file is accompanied by a very brief summary that places the reader and often, also, a link to the full text of the song in question as it is collected. Wikisource, the project for the compilation of works by public domain full Wikimedia foundation.
The Iliad is the only work on which Cristal has published schemes, but on his blog you can see how other universal classics have also deserved his attention, such as the Divine Comedy, Ulises or Quijote between others universal classics on which he has worked, mainly in the form of an essay.