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Watching the Odyssey as Homer intended
654 upvotes, 6 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Movies. "Watching the Odyssey as Homer intended"
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Anonymous 20h

Im not one of those everything is woke propaganda people, but I gave the movie a chance I fell asleep around the 30 minute mark I’m sorry it was just boring to me lol

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Anonymous 1d

It's just a damned shame that "honoring the artist's intended medium" NEVER applies to reading the book...

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

It wasn’t a book, it was an epic written to be performed on stage over multiple acts

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

Have you read the book? It’s not even meant to be read it reads like a stage production. Oh you probably got the shitty translations that changes the format of it completely against “honoring the artists intended medium”

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

Not true by the way. The Odyssey and Iliad are poems meant to be sung aloud by bards at feasts (like Travis Scott in the movie). They were developed orally over centuries before being written down, as the Greeks had lost their writing system and didnt have one until the archaic period.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 20h

It does not read like a stage production. Its a poem. Maybe go read it.

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