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Unused Gates of Hell concept art by Berni Wrightson for GHOSTBUSTERS (1984).

Wasn’t this used for the game? I think it was.

Some more in a bit.

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~ Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.~ Homer, The Odyssey William Russell Flint’s illustrations for “The Odyssey of Homer” (1924).

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ONE-STAR REVIEWS OF THE ODYSSEY

Haven’t done one of these in a while. Enjoy:

“Accoording to what i know about Odysseus i believe that he should not be in the Hero Hall of Fame Nomination Committee. He killed innocent people , cheated on his wife, and ate his friends. I believe that says it all about who Odysseus really is.”

“Spends years banging nymphs and goddesses. ‘Long-enduring Odysseus’–spare me.”

“My farts are more entertaining than this overrated piece of turd.”

“I wasn’t a fan of Odysseus or his men. All of them were adulterous pirates and none of them deserved to make it home in my opinion. I was literally rooting for Poesidon the entire time.”

“Elevated speech or whatever is stupid–it just wastes space. Instead of saying, ‘Oh, greetings to you, Nestor the Gerenian horseman. What brings you to my fine land. Who fair thee? Is your wife well or has she left you for another lesser man?’ can’t we just say, ‘S'up?’?

“I imagine that Homer’s stories were the shit in his times, but those times are long gone. Compared with today’s standards of literature, this is not the shit, it is just shit.”

“I had a first edition of this book hand written on goatskin that I wiped my @$$ with because I wanted to get some value from it.”

“The killing verbal scenes at the end of the book were a bit surprising. The gore was extreme with some odd and end graphically described tortures thrown in as well. Much more so than I would have expected considering the age this was written in. I mean this was way before Friday the 13th movies or Nightmares on Elm Street.”

“A long, tedious, monotonous tome about the journey of a man who has slept with half of Greece, but wants to go home and have his wife forgive him. If you want that plot line summed up, just listen to ‘Whatcha Say’ by Jason ‘I sing my name at the beginning of all of my songs’ Derulo.”

“HOMER YOU SON OF A BITCH I HATE YOUR WORK….I WILL NOT READ THE PRECIOUS ILIAD”

And finally the CliffNotes version:

“Yo yo yo dis book was boring doe”

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[ LITERATURE EDITORIAL SERIES ] Homer’s Odyssey

↳ Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

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illustration series for the Odyssey and the Iliad that I did for my final uni project (click on the images for descriptions)

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The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer

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Every time Trump says that “nobody” has more respect for women than he does I can’t help but agree with him. He is right. The Greek hero, Odysseus, also known as Nobody to the cyclopes Polyphemus, who traveled through dangerous waters and struggled for ten years to return to his wife does indeed have more respect for woman than Trump does.

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“The Barque of Dante” by Eugene Delacroix at The Louvre

This was such a fantastic joy to see in person. It’s not everyday I see the decision to put Dante in anything but red, but mostly Virgil is in warmer colors while Dante has some incredible cool colors going on. Delacroix’s stuff never ceases to disappoint.

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“Virgil”, “Dante” 1852, by Auguste Préault at Musee de Orsay

These fantastic bronze cameos were a surprise when we walked in! I usually play a game of “Where’s Dante” when I go to exhibitions but this really was right there when we came in!

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Name a more iconic duo… I’ll wait.

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Look at this precious, tiny edition of The Divine Comedy. Look at it.

Published 1820 in the original Italian.

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Dante Meditating the Episode of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta by Joseph Noel Paton, 1852

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if you ever feel bad for ignoring your problems, just remember that in older translations of greek and latin texts, the translators would either leave the naughty bits in greek/latin, or better yet they would translate them into italian, because apparently nothing is dirty in italian

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there’s a lot of evidence that the iliad and the odyssey were actually composed by a variety of poets through an oral tradition rather than just by one poet, so what if the homeric texts are actually just a very long game of D&D

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me flirting: which layer of hell do you think you’re going to?

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