i do in hindsight really love the concept of complaining about adaptational changes in a 3000 year old oral tradition of which there isn’t really a definitive version so much as a surviving one that is also the most adapted story of all time. my chud forebears in Roman Britain throwing rocks at a bard going nah nah nah the last one said some different other shit at that part you gotta do it again is a comforting image to me
I’m not a classicist but can you even in good faith call a British guy adapting the odyssey “appropriating Greek heritage” like the British government stealing the Elgin marbles during late 19th century incursion into the Ottoman Empire was. Like that’s just not a super effective framework to be talking about reading and discussing and adapting a text that has been spread all over the world since antiquity and the medieval period predating the modern nation-state or ethnostate or colonialism to me. Is like the lion the witch and the wardrobe appropriating Palestinian heritage?


















