#Homer! Odysseus

[backpackingspace]

Okay so @ditoob has a post pointing out that monster would be homers!odysseus first song. Which is so true!! And I cannot stop thinking about it. Because I'm just imagining this moment where after the guy who came to get him nearly got his son killed; odysseus just hanging his head coming to a fine. Fine if I have to go I'm going to the problem. I'm going to be the monster. I'll come home no matter what. And then penolple pulling him close and making him swear he'll make them pay that he'll come home. /them dueting monster together/

And then through out the Trojan war just suggesting more and more unhinged war crimes. And everybody being like ????? Hello?? Chill out you psychopath. And odysseus just being like remember how I tried to stay home? Remember how you nearly killed my son to get me here. We'll I'm here now so I'm your problem now.

[two-bees-poetry]

twenty years across the sea

[sydney-empire]

"I'll become the monster."

[wolfythewitch]

Heh. Philza x epic. For the bit

[jugganautism]

🔱🩸 HOW DOES IT FEEL TO KNOW PAIN ? / YOU MONSTER !

[official-english-major]

Telemachus's life post-Odyssey has the potential to be so funny bc bro is suddenly going from the son of, essentially, a single mom to the son of two VERY in-love middle aged sweethearts who never had to learn boundaries about what is/isn't appropriate to say around their kid.

Penelope: I knew that "beggar" was you the whole time, you know.

Odysseus, laughing: Oh, really?

Penelope: You can disguise a lot of things, but I'd know that ass anywhere.

Telemachus: I am begging you guys to keep it in your pants for ONE family dinner.

[sloanslone]

ONG ODYSSEY TELEMACHUS WAS SO GIRLBOSS-

SPEAK YO TRUTH KINGGGGGGG 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[messymoonmad]

Since im not very normal when it comes to designing im always more efficient when i design straight up on an illustration so here goes the main suitors :

Antinous (lion🦁) : loud arrogant and imposing. Will laugh at your face and threaten you in cold blood.

Eurymachus (snake🐍): hypocrite manipulative conniving bitch. Will gaslight you with a kind smile. Hates mediocrity

Amphinomous (bear🐻) : he's the answer to choosing a man or a bear. Not inherently evil. He thinks the beggar is funny (not knowing its ody). He is just a guy who's easily influenced by his terrible friends.

(Credit to pinkcherry097 on instagram for the joke)

[dantistmarty]

[blueliliesblueroses]

Storm // EPIC: The Ocean Saga

[starstrvckfool]

So I started reading the iliad

I thought this part was pretty funny, Odysseus crashes out

POV: Achilles & Odysseus hate the same guy (they would be a pretty interesting duo ngl)

[cescalovestowrite]

I seriously need people to understand that Penelope didn't wait for Odysseus for twenty years because social expectations dictated it, or because she was expected to be a faithful wife even untill she died.

Actually it was exactly the opposite: her father wanted her to remarry, some of the women wanted her to remarry, her son made her understand that if she took another husband and left home he wouldn't stop her. And at a certain point she recounts that before leaving for war Odysseus had told her that if he were to die, she could remarry whoever she liked (making sure first that Telemachus would take the throne without problems).

I need people to understand that Penelope's choice was entirely personal. She didn't remarry because her love for Odysseus had never abandoned her, because she knew that with no one else could she find that complete identity of thought and mind, that homophrosyne that she had with him.

It was not the choice of a woman who was modest and trapped by the expectations of her time. It was the choice of a woman who was freer and more independent than others, who preferred to remain without the protection of a man rather than resign herself to not having HER man.

[bethfuller]

odysseus and athena

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[vor-leser]

"Didn´t you say that ruthlessness is mercy?"

[greeknerdsblog]

⚠️It does not justify their actions in a culture and period full of war and suffering⚠️

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

when the first thing your long lost husband does with his son is brutally murder over 100 people

it’s gonna take a while to clean up