#the odyssey

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barrbodiedberry:

I made this for class and am proud! Seems like it could find a home on tumblr

Oh, this is beautiful, OP!

[video description: line-drawn animation of the story of the Cyclops from the Odyssey. The Cyclops goes about his day, affectionately caring for his sheep. The Cyclops is happy with his life. He sits in front of his cave and looks toward the horizon, where he sees something approaching that he thinks is another Cyclops, so he sets the table with good food and puts out bedding for his guest. But the other Cyclops never arrives, and this makes the first Cyclops sad.

While the Cyclops is sleeping, the thing that was on the horizon arrives. It’s a Greek sailing ship that beaches itself. Warriors come out of the ship and wait next to the big rock that seals the cave. When the Cyclops rolls away the rock, the men sneak into the Cyclops’ cave. The Cyclops doesn’t see this, because he’s running to the beach to see what is there. He finds Odysseus’ ship and examines it, but finds nobody there. This confuses the Cyclops. He goes back into the cave with his sheep, rolling the stone across the entrance, sad that the guest he was expecting isn’t going to come. He drinks his wine then lies down in his bed to sleep.

While the Cyclops sleeps, one of the warriors who has been hiding in the cave stabs the Cyclops in the eye with a sharpened staff. The Cyclops leaps up in pain and fear and strikes out with his shepherd’s crook, trying to find who hurt him. The warriors escape the Cyclops’ wrath by hanging on to the underneath of the sheep as the sheep leave the cave. The Cyclops pats the sheep on the back as they leave, but instead of the affectionate pats of earlier, he’s now looking for the man who blinded him.

One of the men grabs a lamb as he runs toward the ship. The distressed ewe tries to follow as the lamb bleats in fear, but the man makes it to the ship and the ship pushes away from the shore, leaving behind a distressed ewe and an angry and sorrowful Cyclops.

The song that plays throughout is “Nobody” by Mitski. The song is about being lonely. At the point at which Odysseus and his crew arrive on the Cyclops’ island, the word “nobody” is repeated over and over and over. Then there are some more verses, but from the point at which the Cyclops is blinded, the only word sung is “nobody.”

The last thing in the video is a quotation from the Odyssey: “Nobody – that’s my name.”

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I scrolled for ages and couldn’t find the original post, but credit to @terpsikeraunos

sinbrook:chthonic-isabelleadjani:and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even su

sinbrook:

chthonic-isabelleadjani:

and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even supposed to mean like there’s no way a translation now in the US could be read the same way it was a couple thousand years ago in Greece when english didn’t even exist yet

Yep, in the original Odyssey, in the scene where Telemachus murders the slaves who were “sullied by” Penelope’s suiters, he refers to them with a word that roughly just means “the female ones”, however most translations will use words like “whores”, “sluts” and “creatures”, these were all choices of the translators. The original text did not refer to them that way. Dr. Wilson refers to them instead as “girls”, to highlight their age and the brutality of the action.

She also fixed all the times the previous male translators dodged around the existence of slaves in the text. Where they call slaves anything but slaves (housemaid, nurse, cook, ect.) Dr. Wilson’s translation correctly calls them slaves as in the original texts. It’s really a great translation, it doesn’t soften anything, and lays bare the reality of the story.

One thing she did too, was she refused to make the descriptions of the women in the story more palatable to modern western beauty standards. The original text, for example, describes Penelope’s hands as “thick”. Most male translators change this to “steady” but Dr. Wilson’s translation calls them “firm, muscular hands” to correctly portray the original intent, that Penelope, as a character who weaves every day and every night undoes her weavings, has strong hands, as weaving does make one’s hands more muscular, and that was clearly what was originally intended to be said given the context of her character and the weavings.

Of Odysseus himself, the original epic calls him “polytropos” poly, meaning many, and tropos, meaning turn. Some male translators used this to say the story itself had twists and turns, other ignored the word completely to write in a way that made Odysseus seem as though a straight up hero, a man “skilled in all ways of contending”, but Dr. Wilson uses it to mean “complicated”, because Odysseus isn’t a straight up hero, he does some really shitty things.

So her translation got a lot of men very very mad, because they said that her being a woman has caused her to translate with bias since her translation is so different to others. She pointed out that perhaps people should have suggested that bias in the inaccurate men’s translations.

Anyway, go read Dr. Wilson’s version of The Odyssey. It’s very good.


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Tall queen, short king (srry for any inconsistencies/inaccuracies)

I love Penelope sm <3 fav greek milf

“I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we

“I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower.

Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships.

When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them.

They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.

Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.”

From the Odyssey


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yuinevo:

Tall queen, short king (srry for any inconsistencies/inaccuracies)

this is one of the best Odysseuses and Penelopes I’ve ever seen WOW

yuinevo:

I love Penelope sm <3 fav greek milf

some people get punished by the gods for attacking their children or being incredibly messed up.. i get intentionally trapped at sea for doing things like “Organizing a siege that destroyed their temples”

no heaven or hell when you die, everyone is just herded into a field with a big scoreboard saying which person did the most War Crimes

my friends, theres nothing i enojy more than a drink of my wife’s drugged wine , while tasting my wife’s wine with my war comrades and my friend’s son, in my palace with my wife

i am a hero of the trojan war who says stuff like “i often sit in my halls weeping and sorrowing for the men who perished in the broad land of troy” and “i love to it when my wife mixes my drink with drugs to quiet my pain and strife.”

by Homer

What’s it about?

The exciting sequel to the Iliad, this one’s about a journey, a lengthy series of failed attempts by Odysseus to get home. In English, “odyssey” means “journey”, but originally it just meant “thing about Odysseus”.

He’s the guy with the Trojan Horse, right?

In an episode famously absent from the Iliad, the Wooden Horse of Troy was indeed Odysseus’s idea.

I’ve started it, but where’s Odysseus?

He’s not in the first four books, which concentrate on the efforts of his son, Telemachus, to control the royal household over the ten years Odysseus has been gone. Although if you’ve read Game of Thrones and you can’t handle a narrative that changes character focus, you should present yourself to the relevant authorities at first light.

The many suitors for the dowager queen are ruining the tiny kingdom and food supplies are running low.

Why doesn’t he just kick them out?

Firstly, they’re armed. Secondly, they’re entitled to ask his mother to marry. Thirdly, there is a strong cultural expectation that if anyone shows up at your place, you have to feed them. It’s just a thing. It’s never questioned.

What should I say to make people think I’ve read it?

“I want to go home. By the shortest route possible.”

What should I avoid saying when trying to convince people I’ve read it?

“The bit about the Wooden Horse is my favourite part of this book too!”

Should I actually read it?

Yes. There are lots of fun adventures with gods and monsters and using your brain to get out of sticky situations and it’s got a proper, old-school, slaughterhouse happy ending, which doesn’t happen a lot in Greek literature. 

Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus by John William Waterhouse

flores-et-dracones:

reading the odyssey in the morning sun

“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.” –Homer (The Odyssey)

“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.” –Homer (The Odyssey)


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Achilles explaining that

they will never defeat Agamemnon:

the trojans without him:

“Circe?”

“Yes Odysseus?”

“Where’s my crew?”

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Ulysses and the Sirens(1891) - John William Waterhouse


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DA Poets

Honestly, any poetry is DA poetry if you can recite it from memory or sound intelligent while speaking of it.

• T. S. Elliot 

          Didn’t write much poetry, but what he did write is dense with meaning

• Wisława Szymborska

          Any of her poems are instant winners, for a great collection I would recommend Map: Collected and Last Poems

• William Shakespeare

          Classic, cannot go wrong with any of his works

• Anne Sexton

          For bonus points, listen to the song “Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel based on the poem “45 Mercy Street”

• John Milton

          Paradise Lost is always recognizable by name

• Homer

          Both The IliadandThe Odyssey are the best known works, bonus points if you are able to read them in their original Greek for the full effect

• Edgar Allen Poe

          Although The Raven is his most notable work of poetry, his short stories are also enjoyable

• Robert Frost

          An acquired taste compared to my other favourite poets, but my top four are definitely “The Road Not Taken”, “Mending Wall”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, and “Acquainted With the Night”

• Mark Twain

          Recognizable in name and work

• Lord Byron

          An older poet, much of his language is obsolete in the modern era yet conveys meanings we could not hope to comprehend without it

• Sappho

          An excellent romantic, “Slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl” Bonus points if you read it in the original Greek for the full effect

• Walt Whitman

          The modern-day version of a classical poet: free verse is his specialty!  

• Edgar Allan Poe

          The O.G. dark academic, the literature teacher’s favourite Halloween lesson.  Nothing can beat the simple and unsettling Poetry of Poe!

• Oscar Wilde

          Nothing will ever be as iconic as The Picture of Dorian Gray has become in the DA aesthetic! a definite must-read.

Αἰνείας (Aeneas)
αἰνός, a tale or story
αἰνός, grim, dire, awful
αἰνή, praise or fame

Ὀδυσσεύς (Odysseus)
ὀδύσσομαι, to feel wrath, to hate

Ἀχιλλεύς (Achilles)
ἄχος, pain + λαός, the people
ἄχος, pain + κύδος, immortal glory + κάλλος, beautiful

Presenting my first video of 2022: The Homer Sweet Homer episode of Wishbone! Please enjoy my reactions to this childhood classic I watched in the ’90s.

finelythreadedsky:

finelythreadedsky:

finelythreadedsky:

i think it would be really interesting to try to draw a map of odysseus’s voyages in the odyssey *without basing it on a map of the actual mediterranean.* i’m not talking hisarlik to ithaki with stops on corfu or sicily or wherever, i’m talking “okay so calypso is seven days from scheria and scheria is one night’s journey from ithaca, pylos is about a day east of ithaca, the underworld is by the cimmerians and that’s apparently far to the north, and odysseus goes there from circe’s island which is all the way on the east and it’s about a day’s sailing, but the laestrygonians are also really far north, far enough to have a midnight sun” and no i don’t care that you can’t sail straight north to the arctic circle from the eastern/central mediterranean. i’m talking a fantasy-world map.

update: calypso is at the west edge of the world, circe is at the east edge, the laestrygonians are at the northern limit, and the cimmerians are at the southern limit. presumably ithaca is the omphalos.

secret odyssey geography unlocked using only internal evidence from the text (except for the fact that troy is a ways east of ithaca and thrace is slightly west of troy)

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