#<- NOT the guy from homer

[nerdrooikat]

some of the first pgs of my journal (the Henry-esque one)

[smokey07]

I think we should draw our fav ship like this. I’ll start:

Menelaus and Helen on their trip back home

P.S: It’s an actual dialogue in the movie. I don’t even have to make shit up

[sunrisebutterfly]

please people stop seeing retellings as an substitute of the original material. thanks.

[toppermostpoppermost]

JARED LETO as Hephaestion

ALEXANDER (2004) dir. Oliver Stone

[katerinaaqu]

After having visited my nephew who is a sneaky little sweetheart has me thinking of Odysseus's childhood. (Headcanons ahead!)

I so imagine he would, as a toddler, being sneaky and proud of it. He would climb on a table and eat that extra set of grapes even if his parents told him not to, he would crawl or run about the house at the rooms he wasn't supposed to. He would look at you in the eye while doing so and he would come at you with that sweet baby look of his, hugging you and making you forget about everything.

Because he knows even as a baby that he is the beloved "much prayed for" child (possibly an only child till later too). He has those big smart eyes that stare into your soul. He would know how to speak very early (possibly already at 1st year forming words and phrases) and he would use them all as a weapon to kill you with cuteness and make you "aww" no matter what he does!

And with those big and beautiful eyes (the latter is Homer-canon) and his curly hair he truly would be a little devious devil wearing an angel's face hahaha 😆

You know he is up to no good and you are willing to forgive him for it! Odysseus would have been a sneaky little bastard from infantry and you can't change my mind

[teddybearty]

Drew more SimpGuy bc I’m obsessed 📺💕

[kilgarraghforever]

I am genuinely really enjoying seeing people who have clearly never read the Odyssey before reacting to EPIC's Ithaca saga. I haven't listened to EPIC myself (yet) but people keep saying stuff like "Odyseeus built their palace around an olive tree he carved into his and Penelope's marriage bed that's so symbolic" and "He really just murdered all the suitors wouldn't that piss off their parents?" Which are observations and questions that the Odyssey makes incredibly blatantly clear as to the symbolism or the answer because it's a really old poem and subtlety wasn't really Homer's strong suit.

There's something really endearing about seeing people interact with the Odyssey through the same way the Ancient Greeks did - a bard singing the story of Odyseus' nostos.

(I gather the details have changed a little, but that's what happens with oral storytelling, and that's how the Odyssey got created in the first place)

Also as congratulations have my favourite ancient depiction of Odysseus surfing with two amphemorae having stolen Poseidon's trident, being sped along by Boreas, stark naked except for a cloak he's holding onto.

[gobbogoo]

Which mythical monsters feel more like victims if you tell the story from their perspective?

This is easy for monsters like Medusa or Arachne who were unjustly cursed, but what about someone like the cyclops Polyphemus?

Imagine you're a humble shepherd, come home with your sheep from another day tending the flock, only to find a group of small sailors have broken in, eaten all your food, drank your best booze, and passed out.

With no dinner left you eat some of the thieves, because fair's fair. Then their captain wakes up, and since your mother taught you to be a gracious host, you introduce yourself and have an affable conversation with the guy. He tells you his name is "Nobody," and you politely inform Nobody that you will still have to eat him and the rest of his crew, because if you burglarize a cyclops's home, you get ate. It's nothing personal, those are just the rules.

Then Nobody takes advantage of your hospitality, gets you drunk, and stabs your eye out.

You scream. Your neighbours call to ask if everything's ok. You cry that "Nobody" is attacking you, and you're too delirious from pain and horror to understand why they don't come running. You realize these maniacs could hurt your beloved sheep next, so you fumble your way to the door and start herding them outside. You try to feel each sheep as it passes in hopes of catching your assailant before he can escape, but it's no use. You can only listen to Nobody's taunts as he sails away, announcing his real name was Odysseus all along,

Blinded, robbed, and seemingly abandoned by your friends in your time of need, all you can do is beg your father Poseidon for some form of justice to reach this monstrous "Odysseus."

[transbutchblues]

all the gay posts about Diomedes on tumblr have made me start to care about him and I really didn’t need a new greek hero to care about because I’m already obsessed with too many myths but I guess it’s fine

[thalassous]

WHERE IS YOUR KID SIDE

WHERE IS YOUR JOYFULNESS

WHERE IS YOUR EMPATHY

— fast asleep.

[find-the-path]

Reading the Odyssey and the Aeneid back to back really highlights how which god is gunning for you changes the story/your chances of survivial. Aeneas, who Juno (the queen of the gods) hates with a passion and would dearly love to kill, gets to Italy with minimum delays and, though he fights a brutal war there, ends up victorious & everything's great. Eternal Rome founded and all that.

Odysseus, who managed to tick off Poseidon on Roll 1, got screwed over so much on his journey that every single man in his crew died, he somehow made landfall on all of the monster-infested islands of the Mediterranean, his (very short) trip home took longer than the Trojan War had in the first place, and got back to Ithaka so late that nobody there recognized him and he had to go on a murder spree to get his house and family back.

[allieinarden]

Thinking that Filbrick always loved Ford and always hated Stan is like, you didn’t watch the same show I did.

[ij16]

And they live happily ever after

Ignore the fact that I can't draw properly

[katerinaaqu]

How Epic started: We have a yet another new fresh retelling of the Odyssey. Let's see.

How Epic ended up: Hey! Watch it! You accidentally threw some Odyssey in that Odyssey retelling!

[catilinas]

something something posts about being ‘doomed by the narrative’ as mystification of The Narrative (as in. mystification of sacrifice, when the narrative is sacrificial, which. it is)

[agaypersonthing]

Oh calypso they could never make me hate you