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literary analysis being posited as this boring grueling penance that only miserable people insist on is very dumb as an idea but its even more dumb to me, the guy who gets so excited about it that he has to clap and pound his fists against the ground and walk in circles at a dizzying speed unbeknownst to man
i really love that line οὐ μὲν γάρ τοι ἔτ᾽ ἄλλος ἐλεύσεται ἐνθάδ᾽ Ὀδυσσεύς, "no other odysseus will ever come to you," because he's saying not that he is the true odysseus but that there is no truer odysseus alive on the earth. he doesn't say, 'i am the real odysseus.' he says, 'i'm the realest odysseus you're going to get.'
there was an odysseus before there was a war
but who remembers him?
emily wilson translating the odyssey a second time???
[My modest collection of Homer translations; Wilson’s Odyssey is second from right.] Emily Wilson is the second woman to translate the Iliad
People have been very mean to Emily Wilson online lately. I’ve been on record as saying her translation of the Odyssey (or Iliad) wasn’t my favourite, but do I agree with the accusations of oversimplification or inaccuracy? (Spoiler alert: no.)
Ok this is it, I have to get something of my chest. Because of this goddamned Odyssey film I keep reading everywhere that Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate the Odyssey and because of this she has a unique take on the text.... NO NO NO THIS IS NOT TRUE she's the first ENGLISH woman to translate the Odyssey but women have been translating and publishing their translation since the 1700s !!!! In French and Italian and I'm sure other languages too!!
I'm so mad because students in Italy have been studying on Rosa Calzecchi Onesti's translation for decades!! Her translation is so well regarded it keeps being used in academia to this day and it's from the 60s!!! There have been dozens of other translations since then but we keep using that one !!!
(and also many other women published their translations both before and after her)
The irresistible urge of english/american ppl to make universal statements out of their experience
you used to be able to get a job just by circling a listing in a newspaper in red pen
Ocarina of Time was my first Zelda game and to me Sheikh is an integral element of the magic it cast over me.
As much as I think it would be fun to have emotive anthropomorphic ears, I also recognize I can barely control my facial expressions. Like hell can I keep from Angry Ears-ing during meetings
This is who you’re having a meeting with, by the way.
i like when both people in a relationship are scared of it
Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.
Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.
Christoph Steinbrenner/Rainer Dempf, "Delete!" (06.2005, Vienna)
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STEAKA (@steaka_id) 🎤
if you were a skilled glassblower what bong would you make that doesnt currently exist
I THINK I COULD CREATE THE BONG OF CHANGE
when the unpopular female character is mean and cruel to the fan favorite 🤩😍🥳🥳🥳💍💍👩❤️💋👩‼️‼️‼️‼️👍
Take it as you wish as a casual viewer, a cinephile, a classicist. You may find your issues with its pacing or its cinematography or its loyalty to the text, and I understand, really. I’m not in the business of defending this film for x, y, z reasons. I just want to point out that maybe people have forgotten the whole meaning of the word adaptation. READ MORE
Eurylochus: What was the song of the sirens like? Odysseus: All the things you wanted to be and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch but you find it under the skin and can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have and that the most you can't have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home.
THE ODYSSEY (2026) dir. Christopher Nolan
Im working on an essay/article about Christopher Nolan's take on the Odyssey. It talks a LOT about "Zeus's Law" and I wanted people's opinion on how he interprets it. Id say, overall he doesnt do a BAD job. I mean, personally, he clearly misunderstands what "Xenia" is. Here are three points I have-
If I remember correctly, they refer to using the wooden horse to sneak into the city of Troy as "breaking Xenia" and... thats not what it means. Xenia is, put very simply, the relationship between guest and host. Calling that move "breaking Xenia" implies the Trojans knew and invited the Greeks into their city. Which, would collectively act as a Household in this light. Yet, they didnt. They didnt invite ANYONE. But maybe one could argue the GREEKS knowing was all that mattered because they knew and they broke the rule. Id also say NO. Again, its not like they were invited as guests and were secretly spies. They were hidden, and the inanimate object was brought in to be set at a temple.
Anyway, another point I think of is if you want Odysseus breaking Xenia, I think itd be easy to argue that in the epic poem Polyphemus gives Xenia to Nobody the Stranger, and gets burned for it -literally. They could have done that, and even included themes of Man vs Monster easily. Instead, they dehumanize Polyphemus even beyond the already inhuman state he's at in the poem. (It all comes back to that damn Nobody scene, or lacktherof.)
Another idea I plan on tackling is the very American-Christian-yet-Atheistic take on Greek religion and I cant help but connect to how the origins of the "golden rule" is the Bible (its found in some form in almost every religion, but the phrase "do unto others..." is from the Bible) and thats how Nolan inteprets Xenia. (Penelope says "treat others..." in the movie. literally quoting it.)
anyway, if anyone else has something to add concerning Xenia, I would like to hear it.
