#and i was quoting that bit in the odyssey when odysseus and argus are reunited
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I couldn't tell you why, but I have always thought that Menelaus was the older brother of Agamemnon rather than the younger. Maybe something to do with Agamemnon's bratty entitled behaviour?
Either way I think it is wild that this is like my fifth or sixth time reading the Iliad and I have only just understood the Atridae birth order.
#like i have a degree in this shit#how did i miss this?#fully reminds me of the time i was doing a paper on dogs in ancient greece#and i was quoting that bit in the odyssey when odysseus and argus are reunited#and the first time i had read the odyssey some how i just like totally skipped over the part where argus died right afte#hashtag odessy spoiler#and it was three am and i was working on a paper due the next day#and i started crying so hard that my mother woke up and came to check on me#and i had to tell her it was because a fictional dog died several thousand years ago#her only reaction was 'haven't you read this before'?#so yeah#maybe i am just like a super unobservant person?#the iliad#agamemnon#menelaus#atridae#homer
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