Preview/Masterlist of my Odyssey 2026 posts (will update):
I am in fact qualified to talk about this (so don’t lie about what the Homeric canon actually says just because you liked Nolan’s movie)
The meaning and importance of “Nobody” (reblog)
The Significance of the Phaeacians (and why cutting them was a fatal error)
Why Does Christopher Nolan Hate Dogs
For the Record Greeks Thought the Nubians Were the Hottest People Alive So Lupita Being Helen Works Perfectly
The Actual Meaning and Importance of Xenia (“Zeus’s law”)
Related: THE TROJANS BROKE XENIA FIRST. THAT STARTED THE WAR.
Christopher Nolan Would Have Been Happier And Done a Better Job If He Just Adapted the Iliad Instead
(Related) Helen and Menelaus vs. Paris
Even Emily Wilson Hated That
Selectively Applying Modern Morals Depending On Who You Sympathize With — The Melantho Litmus Test
Circe keeps being done wrong (ask)
Why people always get Greek gods wrong (ask)
You Can’t Adapt A Greek Epic and Make Your Protagonist, a Greek King, Constantly Scorn Greek Faith And Culture.
You Can’t Cut the Gods (Because the Odyssey is a Story of Hubris, Which Means Offending the Gods, Dipshit)
Somehow Removing Odysseus’ Existing Culpability While Also Focusing on His Grief and Sin
The Privilege of Kings, AKA Why Odysseus Gets Off Scot-Free in Canon
Why borrow an Aeneid character when Odysseus already screwed someone over for self-advocating in the Iliad?
The Bloody Revenge Was Fully Half The Plot, Don’t Sanction It
NERFing of Telemachus (and Eumaeus)
The Sea Peoples Shit Did Not Work
Hey Maybe Mention the Pact Between Helen’s Suitors if you’re gonna make Ody angst about going to war
You Don’t Need to Make the Suitors Worse (part of the point is that we also meet kind of honorable ones)
Christopher Nolan Hates Women (Penelope, Helen, Clytemnestra, Circe, Calypso, Melantho)
The Meaning of the Marriage Bed, Penelope, and Homophrosune
How Do You Villainize Agamemnon That Hard and Still Not Give Clytemnestra Any Focus???
The Infidelity Was Repeated and At Least Kind of Consensual
