honestly I read this translation of the odyssey and it was dogshit, not because of the translation, but because the actual story sucks ass. literally all the cool shit you’ve heard about (sailing, cyclops, sirens, titans, scylla) is given in a single chapter, in recollection, by drunk odysseus. The rest of it is just about telemachus fucking around and odysseus playing undercover boss.
Yeah but what about when Odysseus gets to have hot sex with two really smokin’ goddess babes for a decade. Or when he kills everybody who wants to fuck his wife and then fucks his wife Good. Did you ever consider that. Odysseus. He fucks.
I took an Epics course in college and yeah, it’s all pretty shit. It has to be understood that the way people of the time heard it is not the way we read it today. At the time it would have been traveling storytellers who can make things much more interesting. Reading them on paper is pretty bad. The quality of these stories is far overblown. They are talked about as if they’re the peak of human storytelling ability, but they really aren’t.
As a comparison, the professor of that course also said Battlestar: Galactica is essentially The Odyssey in space, but it is entertaining all the way through. Just watch it instead.
honestly I read this translation of the odyssey and it was dogshit, not because of the translation, but because the actual story sucks ass. literally all the cool shit you’ve heard about (sailing, cyclops, sirens, titans, scylla) is given in a single chapter, in recollection, by drunk odysseus. The rest of it is just about telemachus fucking around and odysseus playing undercover boss.
Yeah but what about when Odysseus gets to have hot sex with two really smokin’ goddess babes for a decade. Or when he kills everybody who wants to fuck his wife and then fucks his wife Good. Did you ever consider that. Odysseus. He fucks.
I took an Epics course in college and yeah, it’s all pretty shit. It has to be understood that the way people of the time heard it is not the way we read it today. At the time it would have been traveling storytellers who can make things much more interesting. Reading them on paper is pretty bad. The quality of these stories is far overblown. They are talked about as if they’re the peak of human storytelling ability, but they really aren’t.
As a comparison, the professor of that course also said Battlestar: Galactica is essentially The Odyssey in space, but it is entertaining all the way through. Just watch it instead.