[ SECRET POST #3034 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3034 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe that it took Odysseus ten years to get fucking home in the Odyssey. And his dog was still alive after 25 years? No way. I wouldn't have blamed Penelope for taking up with one of those suitors that moved into the palace though. Not since Odysseus spent most of his time having sex with Calypso.

What does everyone else think?

[quirkytizzy]

Mostly I commend you for making it through further in the book than I did. Only thing I thought was cool was the place where all the dead wandered around.

[mekkio]

Penny was super loyal and hopeful to wait that long after everyone told her, her husband kicked the bucket. Ody doesn't realize how good he has it with that wife of his.

[herpymcderp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_dogs

29 is the record.

[feotakahari]

In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the world and sky are one,
He shall ride the silver seas,
He shall cut the glittering wave.
I shall sit at home, and rock;
Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock;
Brew my tea, and snip my thread;
Bleach the linen for my bed.
They will call him brave.
--Dorothy Parker

[kallanda_lee]

Fictional stories are fictional - news at 11.

[(Anonymous)]

I will give Odysseus credit for making a sincere attempt not to leave home to begin with, and he really was trying to return in a timely fashion. As far as Greek mythological heroes go, especially those in the Trojan War, he's not bad.

[stickybum32]

Draft dodging, the earliest example. M*A*S*H just ripped off Odysseus for Klinger.

[(Anonymous)]

I rather think Odysseus is the only one on the Greek side who wasn't despicable, at least among the main heroes.

The Trojan side just had way more characters who were really good men and women, and were totally brutalized by the Greeks.

[(Anonymous)]

tbf, the Trojans might not have come off so well if they'd been away from home for ten years and then sacked a city. But as it is, yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

I rather think Odysseus is the only one on the Greek side who wasn't despicable, at least among the main heroes.

not if you read the Aeneid

[(Anonymous)]

tbf about the calypso thing, didn't she literally hold him captive on her island? I don't think he was given much of a choice there. I don't think his thing was circe was entirely consensual either, but I can't remember that part very well or if he slept with women other than them. still though, I definitely don't blame penelope for moving on after two decades. hell, she could have found a suitor years before that and it would have been justifiable. odysseus should have been dead like ten times over and survived because he was a lucky bastard, it's not like penelope could have foreseen that

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're just trying to stir up Odysseus wank.

[diet_poison]

I don't remember if Penelope thought Odysseus was alive or not which makes a big difference. But the double-standard with Calypso and the suitors was ridiculous, and his rage made me roll my eyes. If your wife is cheating on you, dude, SHE is the one you should be mad at. She's a person, not your property. But of course this is ancient Greek culture so I realize I'm being pretty silly for applying modern standards to that shit...lol

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC the suitors had invited themselves into the house, menaced the locals, and were heavily pressuring Penelope to marry one of them, to the point where she'd engaged in several subterfuges to try to fend them off.

[diet_poison]

Ohh. I had forgotten about that detail, but now that you bring it up, you're right.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I don't think she ever slept with one, either. She kept putting off picking one which pissed them off.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you for real?

[cloud_riven]

I think you would like The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

[dahli]

HOLY SHIT ANON TAG YOUR SPOILERSSSSS


Just kidding. :9 The suitors weren't exactly the most "honorable", so I can't really blame Penelope for waiting. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't and all that.

And what was up with the son? I mean, if Odiseus was supposedly dead, he should have inherited everything, right? He was the only son. But then again I'm not so well versed in ancient Greece's mores. Also I gotta laugh at every chick wanting the Odyseus D. He's like the legendary male harem lead, except that he gets laid a lot and is rewarded for it, my goodness!

On the other hand, we can just pretend Odysseus was really bad at directions.

[(Anonymous)]

All Greeks are late, so it's no surprise that our national epic is about a guy who's late and making excuses for it.