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made a sillydumb bookmark. some of the text is quoting/paraphrasing athena in the robert fitzgerald translation of the odyssey ("never give your stratagems a rest" to "your own tough skin")

#i got some cheap tassels and cheap clear plastic bookmark sleeve things #and then made and printed out this image :o) (other side is deltune related)#the number of times ive made ''sparkle on it's wednesday'' memes about characters i love #where the punchline is that theyre advising you not to be yourself as a funny reference to their own life #....that number is 2. but still.#hadesgame tag #epicsposting #blakeposts #my art #<-i guess .#odysseus hades 2 #hades 2 odysseus #the odyssey #odysseus hades #odysseus

not to blorbopost but , i didnt think i could be more obsessed with odysseus, and then i discovered a tradition in ancient greek literature of depicting/using him as a symbol of the End of an Age of Herosim, and the dawn of a new age where cleverness and craftiness are valued above strength and honor. and i jussssssssst. am eating that up

#ive been reading sophocles and pindar and aeschylus fragments and shit. reading papers #theres a myth (edit: referenced in the odyssey) about aias/ajax and odysseus competing for the armor of the recently-killed achilles #and the recipient being decided by vote and odysseus winning that vote (sometimes by persuasion. sometimes by deception. sometimes unclear)#and then aias dies. i think always by suicide. sometimes after ''going mad''. sometimes after slaughtering the greek cattle in a rage #and since aias was like. the Greatest of the Greeks Next to Achilles. him dying in what they wouldve considered a dishonorable way #is like The End Of Hero's #and how that's handled and how odysseus is handled can be sooooo interesting and telling and yummy smiles #blakeposts #epicsposting #my reading #odysseus #the odyssey #does anybody check these tags..helloh

got my grubby lil mitts on a copy of emily wilson's odyssey translation. even went out of my way to read the introduction and translator's note, both of which i enjoyed a lot.

in the introduction wilson listed some old plays and poems and other texts that featured different interpretations of odysseus/ulysses as a character (e.g. sophocles's tragedy ajax). i have been VERY interested in reading some of this kinda stuff—for instance i plan on reading/watching shakespeare's troilus and cressida, in which ulysses is evidently kind of a villain!—so i started taking notes.

and then i realized that it's kinda funny. i am not the kind of person who reads fanfiction unless it's by someone i know. or, apparently, at least 400 years old.

#i know theres a difference. like there are reasons i dont read fanfiction #and there are *very* specific reasons i wanna read different people's interpretations of odysseus/ulysses throughout history #it doesnt even have to do with quality. like i read the achilleid‚ which is lowkey transphobic and not even finished #and the version i read was translated into shakespearean english despite having been done in. the 20s.#idk. maybe id read more fanfic if i became hyperfixated *specifically* on how fic writers portray xigbar.#blakeposts #my reading #epicsposting

the godfather is literally homeric

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having embarrassingly [/lighthearted] tumblrcore blorbocore thoughts about odysseus theodyssey. bro lies easier than telling the truth. he wont tell the truth unless absolutely necessary.

after years and years and years away from home, after the Trojan war, after sirens, cyclopes, cannibals, capture by the goddesses Calypso and Circe, a trip through the underworld, Odysseus finally finds passage to Ithaca his homeland and is dropped off in his sleep. a shepherd approaches him to tell him where he is. his immediate response is to lie and say 'oh, yeah, ithaca, ive heard of that, im from crete' and spend an entire page weaving a yarn about how he came from crete and was in a war etc etc.

and then the shepherd transforms into Athena, who calls him out, saying "You! You chameleon! / Bottomless bag of tricks! Here in your own country / would you not give your stratagems a rest / or stop spellbinding for an instant?"

and THEN odysseus's response is 'ok is this a trick? how do i know youre athena'

everything is a lie, everything could be a lie, everything is a trick or a ruse, everything is potential danger, even when he's home. god i could get so angsty about this

#if you start seeing me post about a new oc no you didnt #well. half-oc. one-third-oc. hes based on hadesgame2 spoilers. but no he isnt because he doesnt exist dont worry about it.#blakeposts #my reading #epicsposting

odyssey anniversary should be celebrated on november 1st every year (no 1)

YOUR MIND....theyre calling him the genius of earth...peer of zeus in stratagems, even........

happy 2700th or maybe 2800th anniversary the odyssey 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

#i know i know. it's off by two weeks. the date is so precisely known otherwise.#sdjfksjkdf thankyou this is so good #epicsposting #asks

ok im reading the odyssey i guess . i read parts of it in college for a class on epics and had intended to go back to it one day. its just funny that the circumstances for doing so are that i wanna see Blorbo From My Video Games

#kicking my feet giggling like oh he's without flaw in both mind and form you say? he ruled like a gentle father you say?#everybody in this poem either loves him because he kicks ass or hates him because he kicks ass #twirls myfucking hair. i Guess. 🙄#blakeposts #my reading #hadesgame tag #epicsposting

the odyssey doesnt begin with odysseus—the first few books of the poem focus on his son, telemachus, as he sets out in search of news of his father, hoping to do something about the men crashing his house and trying to marry his mother. we get an impression of odysseus from telemachus and from the people he talks to: odysseus's military prowess, his clever mind, what he was like as a king. we even learn that odysseus is valued and favored by the goddess athena herself, who intervenes on his behalf to start his journey home, and who personally accompanies telemachus in his own journey.

and then in book 5, when we finally meet odysseus, he's completely miserable because he's being held captive by a goddess who doesn't want to let him go home, and then when he can finally leave, he has to make his own raft and sail it to another island, only for his raft to capsize in a storm and for him to nearly drown, and when he finally swims to shore he realizes that it's all rocks and cliffs and he can't get ashore safely and he has to beg the god of a nearby river for aid in getting to the island, and then he washes up on the beach and lies there for a while with "brine pouring from his nose and mouth", and then he has to sleep naked in a bush for the night.

it's like if john wick started with all the scenes of characters talking about what a badass john wick is and how he killed three men in a bar with a pencil, and then hard cut to the scene in john wick 4 where he spends 30 seconds falling down an entire flight of stairs.

#i could be so much more annoying about this poem and this character than i have been so far. ive been holding back.#epicsposting #blakeposts #my reading #the odyssey

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