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Been rereading The Odyssey

I forgot how great it is

Some thoughts about The Odyssey: 

- The story was told by a bard over a 3 day period 
- The first 12 books are about Odysseus and his struggle on the way back from Troy, but it is told to the Phaeacians, and is narrated Odysseus (his internal story is told to an external audience
- The latter half (the last 12 books) focus on his adventures back in Ithaca, time slows down, and it becomes a story of more political and how to end the story - it is told from a third person view mainly and contrasts so well with the pacing of the first half
- The evolution of Telemachus in the first few books first vs the last few books is Breaking Bad level character development I think, (good Walter white is to bad Walter white as young Telemachus is to mature Telemachus)
- there are just so many great moments
- great similes to describe the reunification of Odysseus with Telemachus, Odysseus with Penelope 
- the sirens, Calypso, Nausicaä, the Phaecians, 
- reuniting Odysseus with his dog is heartbreaking

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For some reason I imagined you reading the Ancient Greek version

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I think over the past 20 years I’ve thought about learning Ancient Greek twice. Once around 2005, 2006? And during Covid, 2020 or so

Still not too late

I went into comp lit thinking I’d love the beat poets and came out loving the epics. Do you know about the Emily Wilson translation?

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Haven’t read Emily Wilson translations I’ve heard of it!

I went into comp lit thinking I’d love the beat poets and came out loving the epics. Do you know about the Emily Wilson translation? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html

We read The Odyssey in the Ancient Mythology class I took winter semester.  As part of my final project, I made an AI folk punk album that included songs inspired by it.

I love the genre of “retelling of the odyssey” like Cold Mountain

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Just started watching Troy last night for the first time

So damn good
Such an escape

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My brother in Christ, The Odyssey has been around for millennia, and it’s still relevant. It’s the archetype for hero stories, epic quests, and adventure. Of course it’s a banger.

Weird to say but the Odyssey is somehow underrated

It bangs and most people just read it for school freshman year of HS or something.

Funnily enough, this 2009 comic takeoff was in BBC Sounds listening queue yesterday, eg the Sirens episode

Funnily enough, this 2009 comic takeoff was in BBC Sounds listening queue yesterday, eg the Sirens episode
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00kfgcx