#and wdym penelope deserves better?? she has what she wants ODYSSEUS | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

corvid-ghost · 3 months ago

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It's such whiplash from going from my corner of tumblr to tiktok when it comes to odysseus

Like here (in my corner idk about the rest) its pretty common knowledge that what happened to odysseus was sa, and most of the stuff abiut him are based off of the Iliad or Odyssey (or epic) and yk people know what they're talking about

And then

Then I go tiktok and it's all "odysseus is cheating scum! Circe, Calypso, and Penelope deserved better! He did them dirty! And achilles and patroclus! Terrible person! Bad! They're the victims!"

Which wild take but ok

#like circe i can see the confusion #but if you look into it (which these peoppe clearly did not its just a game of telephone) its clearly not him willingly cheating #like if he wanted his men back and yk not die it was kinda his only option #(side not i was reading this part in the Odyssey and the way circe just says “oh its you igwe need to fuck now Hermes told me so”)#BUT CALYPSO???#how #read a single line from this part of the book #it goes on and on how he doesnt want to #“one unwilling and the other way too willing”#A DIRECT QUOTE #and him crying on the beach everyday?#what from all that makes you think he wants to be thete #let alone calypso being the victim #and wdym penelope deserves better?? she has what she wants ODYSSEUS #penelope wants odysseus #they have a healthy marriage #wtf are you guys on about #i mean if you look at the caption itd be “just finished circe” or smth like that #so #not that surprising #anti tsoa #anti circe #anti madeline miller #the odyssey #odysseus #penelope #penelope of ithaca #circe #calypso

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