Nov 10, 2024
He will take you to Ithaca!
We need a name for this ship.
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He will take you to Ithaca!
We need a name for this ship.
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(after listening to the bard in the court of Phaeacia)
Alcinous: Hey, are you doing okay?
Odysseus: Iâm fine! Why do you ask?
Alcinous: Well, for one thing, youâre openly weeping.
There we go! all my twst bois for Art fight Ë( ° âœă° )
as well as their names and reference~
Medea kneeling before Arete by Maud Hunt Squire in The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
A retelling of the Greek myths of Perseus, the Argonauts, and Theseus
The issue is not to determine in which specific episode of the Odyssey Odysseus lies and in which he tells the truth. Unless the poet explicitly says otherwise, we have to start from the assumption that the adventures Odysseus recounts did happen. You canât just dismiss entire sections of the narrative if you want to analyze the text. But a more interesting set of questions to me is: how much truth is there in his lies? How much falsehood in the things that are true?
When Odysseus tells one of his Cretan lies to Eumaeus and describes a man who could not be content with just his family and needed to go seek more glory because "each to his own pleasure"*, whom is he describing? Another version of himself? A version antithetical to himself? A combination of the two? How much truth is there in his lie?
Is it possible that Odysseus, who the moment he sees Nausicaa is able to choose his words with deliberate care in order to charm her and secure her protection (which doesnât mean outright lying), does something similar with Arete? With Alcinous? Odysseusâ return home depends on the fascination the Phaeacians feel toward him, and that fascination greately depends on his story.
We cannot truly answer any of these questions, but I donât think they are meaningless questions. They are questions that the most metanarrative ancient poem in history, whose protagonist is famous for his mastery of words and storytelling, implores us to ask.
* Translation by Robert Fitzgerald
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Alsseus âđ©” (edit)
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Art credit: @pink-noah
They had a kid!
[When the people knew that Ulysses (Odysseus) had come, they welcomed him back and showed that they favored his cause; and from them he learned everything that had happened at home. Ulysses repaid the faithful with gifts, the unfaithful with punishments. As for Penelope, her reputation for virtue is famous. Soon afterwards, in answer to Ulysses' hopes and prayers, Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous, was married to Telemachus.] . . . [Nausicaa and Telemachus had a son, to whom Ulysses gave the name Ptoliporthus (Poliporthes) (Sacker of Cities).]
(I know that in some versions Poliporthes is Odysseus and Penelope's second son, but I like this better because they get to be grandparents.)
Odysseus before Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians, by August Malmström (1829-1901)