Dear Christopher Nolan,
My name is Herod Priovolos and I want to tell you what #TheOdyssey truly means to me and to generations of Greeks who grew up with Homer’s story.
Homer did not sing of Odysseus simply to entertain us with ships, storms, gods and monsters. He told the story because he understood what war, time, distance and loss can do to the human soul.
Odysseus leaves Ithaca as a king, a husband and a father. He returns twenty years later alone, exhausted and disguised as a beggar, carrying the memory of every companion who never made it home.
The monsters are not merely creatures created for spectacle.
The Cyclops is power without justice. The Sirens are the beautiful voices that tempt a person to abandon their purpose. Circe represents the danger of losing our humanity. Calypso offers Odysseus immortality, but even eternal life becomes a prison when the price is forgetting his wife, his son, his homeland and his own identity.
And Ithaca is not merely an island.
Ithaca is the place that remembers you when the world no longer recognizes your face. It is the home that remains alive inside you after everything else has been taken away. It is Penelope growing older while she waits. It is Telemachus becoming a man without his father. It is Argos surviving long enough to recognize his master one final time.
Odysseus is not great simply because he defeats monsters. He is great because he is proud, frightened, wounded, clever, imperfect and deeply human. He loses his companions, his youth, his name and twenty years of his life, yet he refuses to forget who he is.
When he finally returns, Penelope does not recognize him through strength, glory or appearance. She tests him. Odysseus proves his identity by remembering the bed they built together around the roots of a living olive tree.
That is the heart of The Odyssey.
Not the battles. Not the ships. Not the monsters.
Two people standing before each other after twenty years, asking whether love, memory and identity can survive everything time has done to them.
That is why this poem has survived for almost 3,000 years. Every human being is trying to return to something: a home, a person, a lost part of themselves, or the life they had before the world changed them.
So use Homer’s seas, gods, heroes and monsters. But please understand what you are touching.
The Odyssey was never truly about how far a man could travel.
It was about how much the world could take from him before he stopped being himself, and whether, after losing almost everything, he could still find his way home.
I'm old enough to remember when trump was begging Georgia to "find" 11,780 votes. Now he's pretending he's "found" some evidence, 6 years later?
WHAT A F*CKING LOSER.
I need 1,000 quick RTs and replies using #LoserTrumpsElectionLies to make it trend
Please and thank you! 🙏💪
Why wouldn't every American not be interested to see any evedindce of election fraud? Why would it matter who is President, which election was rigged and in whos favor? If you just turn your nose up at the mere suggestion of this being the case, and not even willing to see or hear what the evedince is that they have discovered, you must be afraid of being wrong. Lets see the evidence! Whats wrong woth that? You cant call it a lie if you dont even look at it. Even if it ended up being one.
@JulKuss@jo_delb vitrages 4 saisons façades sud et ouest, on maintient 24 degrés lorsqu’il fait 39-40. Prochaine étape casquette végétalisee sud et ouest… toutes les chambres ont 2 fenêtres sur 2 façades différentes ce qui assure une bonne circulation de l’air frais la nuit.
@JulKuss@jo_delb une bonne ventilation la nuit fonctionne. J’ai conçu la mienne comme les anciennes maisons méditerranéennes, un gros parallélépipède avec une multitude de petites ouvertures dans le grenier et cave. Brique monomur isolées, crépi chaux sable à l’ancienne, volets
Madame, je viens de m’infliger votre chronique et me fais un devoir de répondre à vos interrogations: 1) on n’est pas complètement con , et on a bien compris qu’on risquait davantage une guerre avec la Russie en abandonnant l’Ukraine qu’en la soutenant . 2) La Russie a une
Jill and I are shocked by the sudden passing of Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey and I served together in Congress for over a decade, and worked closely on many issues throughout the years. We traveled the world together as members of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. We disagreed often, and sometimes loudly.
Lindsey and I did agree on the profound importance of public service. Like me, he loved the Senate as an institution, even with all its flaws and complexities.
To his family, his staff, his constituents in South Carolina, and everyone who loved him: Jill and I are keeping you in our prayers.