#anticlea

This book is much, MUCH worse than what you're thinking

Odysseus is having nightmares of Prometheus

From here on, it's downhill

The writer decided to use the version where Odysseus is the son of Sisyphus. But managed to do it in a way I lost empathy for Anticlea

"He told me about the prophecy given you: that the fault of our childlessness was yours, but you were going to cast me aside anyway. I remember dismissing the servants and..."

"I groan, because the moment Mother let Sisyphus see her alone, she lost recourse to say she was raped - even if she was."

Anticlea will keep digging a bigger hole for herself

"Look at our son, husband. He is our pride, our joy!"

Anticlea you can't expect Laertes to feel pride for Odysseus 20 minutes after revealing the boy is the result of infidelity

Zeus is trying to destroy the line of Prometheus, and Sisyphus was part of it

Now get ready to lose support for Anticlea

"Sisyphus was the most charming of men. Not in a smooth, sly way, but full of energy and dynamism. He and my father were friends, and as a child I longed for a husband just like him-"

"That's why you've never loved me! You only love Odysseus! It's always him, him, him!"

She neglected her daughter Ctimene. Only caring for the son of the 50 years old man who took advantage of her while drunk 😐

"But you have to understand, I had no intention of being unfaithful."

She will contradict this line shortly after

"I wanted him, and I knew I was fertile that night." (This get's worse). "Yes, he was much older than me, but he could have awakened passion in a woman made of ice."

At this point I wanted to enter the book and punch Anticlea, because there's no way she's really that stupid

You didn't want to cheat, but you decided to have sex with him knowing it was the fertile point

Also I love that all this speech about passion and desire, but she doesn't remember the sex

"I jeopardized my entire life to create you, and I would do it again."

" 'I want my family back,' she whispers. 'I do love your fath- ...Laertes... He's my world: he, you and Ctimene. It's too late for me to start again.' "

This last line is proof you don't love Laertes or Ctimene. You would jump back into the bed of Sisyphus if he appeared now. This despair is because you're 40 years old, which means little chance of more kids, which means no one wants to marry a old cheater

Odysseus is suggesting for his mother to try to buy the king's affection back. But to be fair, she doesn't have many options

"You're so much like your real father, you know."

Anticlea... SHUT UP!! 🤬

After this whole disaster Odysseus had to run away, reached a forest, was attacked by a boar, and then Athena appeared

"And I realize that, in my nightmare of Prometheus, she's the only one of the Olympians gods who isn't there..."

So this will try to portray Athena as "not like other deities"?

Ps: at least in the first book, the love interest isn't Penelope. It's Cassandra 😐

And given that Rossi was arguably the best director so far for this scene I am curious to see what you've got hahaha

Hiiiiiiii!!!

Sorry for the delay🙏🏻, I've been a bit busy with finals, but here it is.

It's quite sad to draw something like this, but I take comfort in the fact that Odysseus loved his mother and was able to see her in the realm of the dead.

I know the day has already passed, but I wholeheartedly wish all the mothers of the world a happy day!!!

do you ever think that anticlea hoped for death just so she could see her son again-- only to arrive in the Underworld and realize he's not there and that he never was.

and she knows how bad penelope misses him and she can't even tell her that yes, odysseus is alive.

but that begs the question in her heart-- where is odysseus, if he is not dead?

at least, she has the certainty of the Underworld.

Another simple design. It took a little time to figure out how the chlamys(?) actually works, but hopefully it makes sense.