anna and her archive
Telemachus sneezes… or does he???
i need uppers to be able to pay attention to an audiobook
I think I’d pick up the Wilson version too, just to read a new translation. I liked that excerpt.
I just need to keep my hands busy so my audiobook listening overlaps exactly with me playing hours of picross
yeah doing stuff like that just makes me not able to hear or process the audiobook at all. its the reason i dont listen to podcasts, they just go through me as soon as anything else has an iota of my attention
maybe ill just read it aloud to veronica and sid and miguel on the boat the whole time
you should absolutely do this!
I think it would be a great time reading it to someone, or hearing it read. Going to ask my partner if she’d be interested hearing a book (the chapters are called books) a night or something.
OOoh, this is exciting!
do you think more people would have heard of The Odyssey if they called it The Iliad 2?
The Iliad Gaiden: Nobody’s Story
^ okay this is a good thread title
Contrariwise, I’d expect Odyssey Origins: Troy to beat Iliad.
Homeward Bound: The Song Continues…
tony robinson’s 80s tv show narrating the odyssey in various nice locations and with some actually quite neat outfits was the fucking shit
the bbc used to own
i’d like to joke abt the guy who didnt know what the odyssey was but tbh it was only a few months ago i learned that “mentor” just came from a particular guy named Mentor that hung out with Telemachus. along with his other two friends, Founder and Growth Mindset.
very excited to show off my awful reading comprehension, book is downloaded!!
I was gonna say, the odyssey is one of those things that’s been adapted so many times that it almost seems immaterial whether you’ve read it? like there was probably an odyssey episode of ducktales or something
I’m gonna go to the library and submit myself to the public’s offerings.
Me too!
I used to watch The Odyssey
I kind of hated how every episode ended on a cliffhanger.
I’d totally revisit and binge watch it now to see how it ended, except it ended on a cliffhanger. There is no no ending.
From Wikipedia
Due to a decreased viewership for season 3, the series was cancelled before reaching its intended conclusion, ending the last season with cliffhangers both in the Upworld and Downworld.
One of the interesting things about the Odyssey as a cultural artifact is that all the mythological journey stuff that you constantly see adapted (the cyclops, the sirens, the lotus eaters, all that jazz) is like 1/3 of the poem. It’s how that interacts with the other 2/3 that makes the whole thing great art, otherwise it would just be like, ancient Greek Dragonlance