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He will take you to Ithaca!

We need a name for this ship.

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(after listening to the bard in the court of Phaeacia)

Alcinous: Hey, are you doing okay?

Odysseus: I’m fine! Why do you ask?

Alcinous: Well, for one thing, you’re openly weeping.

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #the odyssey #alcinous #alcinous of phaeacia #odysseus #odysseus of ithaca #source: how i met your mother #odyssey book 8

There we go! all my twst bois for Art fight ˋ( ° ▽、° )

as well as their names and reference~

#twisted wonderland #Twst oc #Zeronis Gentlehaven #Fatin Samaka #Zayn #Alcinous #Tod Vultire

The issue is not to determine in which specific episode of the Odyssey Odysseus lies and in which he tells the truth. Unless the poet explicitly says otherwise, we have to start from the assumption that the adventures Odysseus recounts did happen. You can’t just dismiss entire sections of the narrative if you want to analyze the text. But a more interesting set of questions to me is: how much truth is there in his lies? How much falsehood in the things that are true?

When Odysseus tells one of his Cretan lies to Eumaeus and describes a man who could not be content with just his family and needed to go seek more glory because "each to his own pleasure"*, whom is he describing? Another version of himself? A version antithetical to himself? A combination of the two? How much truth is there in his lie?

Is it possible that Odysseus, who the moment he sees Nausicaa is able to choose his words with deliberate care in order to charm her and secure her protection (which doesn’t mean outright lying), does something similar with Arete? With Alcinous? Odysseus’ return home depends on the fascination the Phaeacians feel toward him, and that fascination greately depends on his story.

We cannot truly answer any of these questions, but I don’t think they are meaningless questions. They are questions that the most metanarrative ancient poem in history, whose protagonist is famous for his mastery of words and storytelling, implores us to ask.

* Translation by Robert Fitzgerald

#I want to reiterate that pointing to individual episodes and claim that they're false is pointless and a vicious cycle #not the point not the point #but the odyssey to me is so deliciously ambiguous #and it's very sophisticated #idk #I don’t think it wants to answer all our questions and give us all the solutions #the odyssey #odysseus #tagamemnon #greek mythology #eumaeus #arete #alcinous #nausicaa #my post #my thoughts #homers odyssey

Alsseus ⚓🩵 (edit)

‼️Crack ship & suggestive‼️

Art credit: @pink-noah

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Medea kneeling before Arete by Maud Hunt Squire in The Heroes by Charles Kingsley

A retelling of the Greek myths of Perseus, the Argonauts, and Theseus

#Peak moment #Joining my fav witch with my fav people #This supplication pose hits diff #greek mythology literature #greek mythology art #argonautica #Arete #Medea #argonauts #alcinous #Tagamemnon

They had a kid!

[When the people knew that Ulysses (Odysseus) had come, they welcomed him back and showed that they favored his cause; and from them he learned everything that had happened at home. Ulysses repaid the faithful with gifts, the unfaithful with punishments. As for Penelope, her reputation for virtue is famous. Soon afterwards, in answer to Ulysses' hopes and prayers, Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous, was married to Telemachus.] . . . [Nausicaa and Telemachus had a son, to whom Ulysses gave the name Ptoliporthus (Poliporthes) (Sacker of Cities).]

(I know that in some versions Poliporthes is Odysseus and Penelope's second son, but I like this better because they get to be grandparents.)