#epic views

[nostalgiaforinfinity]

Henningsvaer | Lofoten

[downfalldestiny]

The road to the mountains 🌄 !.

[kemetic-dreams]

[breatheoffline]

Sunrise to Sunset: Chasing Epic Views on a Budget

Discover how to experience breathtaking sunrise and sunset views without overspending. Explore budget-friendly destinations and tips for scenic travel adventures.

[krumpkin]

A fantastic image 😊

[chanelb4-karl]

epic views

[furiouswritingbiologykid]

Eurylochus, a proper, gods fearing greek soldier: Don't forget how dangerous the gods are! Odysseus, who's been besties with Athena since he was like twelve, just had a whole song of arguing with her with zero fear of being smote, and gets personal warning visions from Zeus:(b･▽･)b Will do good buddy!

[misfitwandersdani]

Mormors Glass Cafe: The Ultimate Experience with Ice Cream

Discover the enchanting ambiance of Mormors Glass Cafe, where warmth and comfort embrace you. Unveil a delightful escape to a cozy haven in this unique guide.

Feel the enchantment of Mormors Glass Cafe as you immerse yourself in its cozy atmosphere and vintage decor. It’s a delightful ice cream paradise that’s in Lysvik, Sweden. It’s a tiny village in Värmland county. This quaint cafe’s name ‘Mormors Glass’ means ‘Grandma’s Ice Cream’. It’s a must-visit destination for locals and tourists alike. Savor delicious ice cream recipes and admire local…

[justvea18]

Hermes again

[messymoonmad]

MESSY U LITERALLY CAN'T DO THIS TO ME IM NYYPHYPERVENTALTING I NEED THIS SO BAD AUOOGHH,,,,

Do what ? *bitelip*

[aliencrxd]

<3 🌲🌳🍀🍃🌱🌿💚💚

[kemetic-dreams]

[melishade]

Wow...if I had a nickel for every time two characters from a Greek retelling start off with opposing world views but end up switching their world views by the end of the story, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't alot:

BUT IT'S WEIRD THAT IT HAPPENED TWICE!

[seaglassdinosaur]

Poseidon calling Odysseus and his men a ‘pack of wolves’ (swimming with the sharks, now).

Telemachus being called ‘little wolf’ because he is his father’s son.

[lyculuscaelus]

So lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts asking people to stop trying to make Odysseus look nice in their works cuz he’s a “messed-up person in the mythology”. Your opinion is valid however I have but one thing to point out:

You want to know who started all this? Who started to “make Odysseus look nice” in the first place?

It’s Homer. It’s nobody else but Homer himself.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would try to murder people out of his own interests. He’d murder Palamedes without remorse (and we’d be cheering over this but it’s a murder after all), he’d attempt to murder Diomedes just to get the Palladium himself, he’d volunteer to kill Astyanax…meanwhile you wouldn’t find any mention of either Palamedes or Nauplius in Homer’s poems, neither did he mention anything abt the Palladium heist (and Diomedes necessity did not happen until Conon’s version), the death of Astyanax, the distribution of war prizes, etc. And all the details in the Odyssey seemed to deny the existence of Nauplius’s vengeance at all, so Odysseus would not take any of the blame.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be depicted as “cruel, treacherous”, meanwhile in book 10 of the Iliad Odysseus was not mentioned to have killed anyone during the marauding, neither did he promise Dolan anything at all. The negative interpretations are denied by these details subtly put by Homer.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be widely known as a “coward” for only shooting arrows from afar. But Homer gave him a spear and had him absolutely slaying in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. That part of Ajax’s speech was invalid already.

Most importantly—a non-Homeric Odysseus would be having kids everywhere else, and the loyalty to his own wife as seen in the Odyssey is no where to be found. Meanwhile his lineage was a single-son line made by Zeus in the Odyssey, and his love for Penelope was one of his main drives, especially seen in book 5 of the Odyssey. He loved his family as a loving parent—something you don’t get to see in most of the non-Homeric writings—for most of the time they followed a different tradition indeed, in which Odysseus wasn’t half as nice as in the Odyssey.

TL;DR: in case you haven’t noticed, the characterization of the Homeric Odysseus was quite different from a non-Homeric version of Odysseus. It’s not that Homer didn’t know of the existence of other versions—he knew them too well, which is why in his version of the story, you don’t get to see any mention of them.