Aaronofithaca05 - Aaron's Shenanigans

The love-hate relation I have with this book is unimaginable, like I related to Circe and wanted to be like her, ( a independent person, witty, etc...) but then the end, oh god, we don´t talk about that....

"But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me."

Circe - Madeline Miller

Odysseus: oh yeah he wore a deer pin fastened in the purple cloak with golden trims in a geometric fashion that his wife gifted him, under a summer sunny day when Zephyrus was blowing in the white sails and the salt in his face was starting to settle. But yeah I don´t know him :) Penelope: I think it was a plain one. Odysseus: no It was geometric because....ahhh Penelope: Ody..... You´re here with ME She slaps, hughs him, and they cry for two days on their olive tree bed.

Also the suitors are dead and the palace has a beautiful red floor :D

Odysseus (beggar form): yeah i can barely remember meeting odysseus it was 20 years ago

Also Odysseus: *describes the exact pin on the cloak odysseus was wearing on that day 20 years ago*

meanwhile Penelope is just sobbing

Ya know, one thing I think is really cool about Epic: The Musical is that it kinda returns The Odyssey back to its roots. Let me explain that.

So The Odyssey was originally a sung poem passed orally between singers called rhapsodes for generations before it was written down. It is this written version of essentially a really long song that would eventually become the text that we know of called The Odyssey. The Odyssey that we know is just one version of a larger piece of musical communal storytelling.

These days when people interact with The Odyssey it’s usually as a book (that’s probably not even read aloud) instead of as a musical performance. Aka most people who have read The Odyssey have never heard The Odyssey.

It’s also more static. The Odyssey is the “true” version, everything else is an adaptation at best. It’s no longer considered a communal story in which anyone can be an author.

Then Epic comes along. Like any adaptation it does contribute to as close as we can get to that original communal storytelling, but also, by being a musical, it does what only musical adaptations of The Odyssey can do. It makes The Odyssey a musical performance again, the way it originally was thousands of years ago.

And I just think that’s neat.

Help you the gods is not because you´ve found the Baltic Odyssey, please for your own well being don´t research that, IS NUTS, I made a post a while ago talking exactly about that and one of the arguments was Mycenanean boats

WHY am I researching Mycenaean boats. Why. Why do I do this to myself

Context: The godesses are angry, Aphrodite has a shiny apple✨