#stop ascribing hard and fast moral concepts to characters who didn’t exist and were written about literal thousands of years ago
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I am once again very gently asking fellow Epic fans to not ascribe their characterization in the musical to their Odyssey counterparts. And maybe don’t call the people who remind you that “pathetic and uneducated” despite them giving you multiple paragraphs of explanation and historical context
#scylla is yapping again#my post#stop ascribing hard and fast moral concepts to characters who didn’t exist and were written about literal thousands of years ago#that shit literally varies by interpretation#and translation#it’s fine to look at something through a modern lense and see one thing#but you can’t get mad when someone else sees another#we don’t know what Homer intended with everything#the man has been dead for thousands of years#epic#epic the musical#the odyssey
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