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one thing that does bother me quite a bit is the constant erasure of poc from "classical western culture" as if greece hadn't been interacting with north africa and west asia for centuries, and as if arab communities hadn't played a HUGE part in the preservation and studies of classical texts. like yeah random guy on twitter enjoy pretending to know aristotle and calling people racist slurs but where would you have gotten your unread copy of the organon without Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
happy 1914th birthday, antinous
You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*
Ariadne x The Backrooms AU
Yes it was bound to happen ☺️☝️
patroclus' death really is one of the most chilling and cinematic moments in the iliad and it's kinda crazy that everytime it got adapted on screen it got reduced to a lackluster due with hector you literally have an entire scene rught in front of you down to the shot of the dust and blood soiling the helmet. i get why it's easier to reduce it to hector getting it wrong but it's so reductive of the scene as a whole. that eerie moment when apollo comes down clouded in mist and disarms patroclus, him being left completely helpless and dazed and unarmed, euphorbus' part in it, hector muscling through the crowd to get to him
it all amounts to creating a very vivid picture of the event, an event that's so intresting in how it's presented (especially intrestimg is the similarity to ritual sacrifice), i hate when people reduce it to him losing to hector cause it's genuinely one of the scenes in the poem i think would turn out best in a screen adaptation
putting the catalogue of ships pride of place in your mummy is adorable ngl. you die and the embalmer's like you want me to give them the usual magical texts for this bit or what and your loved ones are like well this is going to sound strange but. they really did love that bit in homer about the boats
italian is truly a beautiful language
My family uses that so much omg
in fondo se è un'americanata bisogna pur dirlo 🫠
cicero is so funny you think he's almost done with a sentence but no! get hit by the dependent clause ray!!!
Oh! You're finally awake! Nolan? Odyssey? Must have been a bad dream. Let's watch Franco Rossi's hit TV mini series Odissea (1968) together
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🏹teucer shooting those ambush attacks🏹
im rallying the other approximately five teucer fans with this one, we are few BUT WE ARE STRONG!!
the aeneid is v interesting whenever aeneas does something odysseus also did. it's like "don't you wish the odyssey was a little more roman?" well... no <3
Did you hear that Lupita Nyong’o has been cast as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Odyssey flick? Of course you have. Because t
hey hold on gang. i have a parallel to draw between two pieces of media
one day i WILL write my menelaus daddy issues analysis there's so much there i swear
like besides the parentification in his bond with agamemnon that came with them being exiled early on and so basically alone, he uses parental terms of endearment both for phoenix in the iliad and nestor in the odyssey. he tries to find that bond with other people as well as agamemnon and it's obvious he places a lot of importance on that esp in how he talked about nestor in odyssey 4 (listen he's my 3000 year old special guy i get him). he also replicates parental bonds in which he is in the parent position, for example with (dead) patroclus (parental similies are very common in the iliad but imo the one at the beginning of book 17 is particularly intresting because of the animal chosen and the gender switch) and with telemachus in the odyssey (those moments were probably very important for telemachus too!!!). he's extraordinarily giving in his relationships with his friends, think about his plans for odysseus in odyssey 4, which in my menelaus scholar opinion is also in itself a way to replicate the familial bonds he lost first with his parents and then with the death of agamemnon, and to have that with somebody who understands what it was like to fight in the war. my point is that to me a very important lart of menelaus' character is his desire for connection, especially for the kind he lost with his family over time.
one day i WILL write my menelaus daddy issues analysis there's so much there i swear
