#anyway I've read the odyssey three times now (Emily Wilson's translation twice) it's become a hyperfixation
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My favorite scenes from The Odyssey (books 18 to 21)
Odysseus fighting a random beggar being its own book was not something I expected to enjoy this much when reading The Odyssey, but here we are.
#the odyssey#odysseus#penelope#odypen#telemachus#athena#eurymachus#antinous#irus#aka the beggar#eurycleia#anyway I've read the odyssey three times now (Emily Wilson's translation twice) it's become a hyperfixation#there are so many scenes I like that I'd probably have to draw the entire story#like I have several in book 1 alone#examples being the olympain gods waiting for poseidon to go to some party in ethiopia just so they can make a decision without him#telemachus telling his mom not to stop their bard (aka personal dj) from singing a song about his father's death#keep in mind he says that the bard is free to sing about whatever he wants while in a previously it was mentioned that the bard was forced#in book two (in think) Telemachus calls the nobles for a meeting and then throws the “speaking staff” to the floor#and proceeds to trauma dump#back to book one: Athena making some long excuse of how she is totally a human man and immediately transforms into a bird#in front of Telemachus' face#all of this and its not even halfway through the Telemachy
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