#odyssey by homer

[nezukoo-channn]

Anticleia calling Odysseus "Odysseus, my sunshine" in Book Eleven of Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey makes me cry.

[jugganautism]

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

[dionysism]

has this been done

(inspired by this post)

[attendingthetale]

having an iliad summer. doing a ton of brooding. might be blinded by selfishness and/or rage. considering unexpectedly dying to my hubris. hopefully that wont have devastating effects

[bethfuller]

odysseus and athena

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[vor-leser]

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

[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

[ellilyre]

Do you think that Odysseus has become a kind of running joke among the gods, like when we joke about cockroachs' survivability?

For example some mortal is surviving stuff that rly should've killed him, and someone on Olympus says "is he pulling an Odysseus on us?" and everyone laughs

[miyetko]

I know I messed up the lyrics a little but oh well

[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.

[greeknerdsstuff]

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

[nezukoo-channn]

As chosen by my tbr jar, the next book I'm going to read is The Odyssey by Homer (Translated by Emily Wilson).

I have heard several things about this translation specifically but, is it good?

[simoondraws]

An old friend came to visit 😌

[dionysism]

"odysseus should visit diomedes after the events of the odyssey" "odysseus should go see menelaus" personally if i was odysseus im not going fucking no where ever again 😭😭 THEY can come to ithaca. i've been traveling long enough

[voidfound404]

Epic the musical Odysseus: I really don’t wanna die I need to see my son and wife.

Homer’s Odysseus: Sometimes I kinda wanna die.

Ulysses Dies at Dawn Ulysses: I really wanna die.

Hades 2 Odysseus: *Died*

[dreamsandconstellations]

*Odysseus’ crew appear in The Underworld post-Thunder Bringer*

Hades: Weren’t you just here?