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@historyinmemes

about 1 month ago

If Odysseus had not angered Poseidon, his journey home from Troy would have taken only about a week instead of becoming a legendary 10-year ordeal. Odysseus had already achieved the perfect escape after blinding Polyphemus, using the clever name “Nobody” to trick the other Cyclopes and avoid immediate revenge. However, once he believed he was safely out of reach aboard his ship, his pride took over. Ignoring his crew’s desperate warnings, he shouted his true name back to the shore, revealing his identity and giving Polyphemus the information needed to call upon his father, Poseidon, to curse him. That one act of arrogance turned a short journey home into a decade of suffering. Still, Poseidon was not responsible for every hardship Odysseus faced. He and his crew repeatedly created their own disasters. At one point, they were close enough to see the shores of Ithaca when suspicion and greed led the crew to open Aeolus’s bag of winds, sending them back to the beginning of their journey. Their troubles continued with a year of willingly staying in luxury with Circe, the crew’s decision to slaughter Helios’s sacred cattle, which led Zeus to destroy their final ship, and Odysseus’s seven-year imprisonment with Calypso. In the end, the Odyssey is not just the story of a lost hero trying to return home — it is also the story of a man whose pride and choices repeatedly extended his own punishment.

historyinmemes's tweet photo. If Odysseus had not angered Poseidon, his journey home from Troy would have taken only about a week instead of becoming a legendary 10-year ordeal.

Odysseus had already achieved the perfect escape after blinding Polyphemus, using the clever name “Nobody” to trick the other Cyclopes and avoid immediate revenge.

However, once he believed he was safely out of reach aboard his ship, his pride took over. Ignoring his crew’s desperate warnings, he shouted his true name back to the shore, revealing his identity and giving Polyphemus the information needed to call upon his father, Poseidon, to curse him. That one act of arrogance turned a short journey home into a decade of suffering.

Still, Poseidon was not responsible for every hardship Odysseus faced. He and his crew repeatedly created their own disasters. At one point, they were close enough to see the shores of Ithaca when suspicion and greed led the crew to open Aeolus’s bag of winds, sending them back to the beginning of their journey.

Their troubles continued with a year of willingly staying in luxury with Circe, the crew’s decision to slaughter Helios’s sacred cattle, which led Zeus to destroy their final ship, and Odysseus’s seven-year imprisonment with Calypso. In the end, the Odyssey is not just the story of a lost hero trying to return home — it is also the story of a man whose pride and choices repeatedly extended his own punishment.

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Alex Walason

@AlexWalason

about 1 month ago

"It was all the things you wanted it to be, then, all the things you wished for. It was the delicious itch you go to scratch, that lies under the skin you can't reach, so the itch becomes unbearable. Told you what you most want is what you most can't have.and what you most can't have, is what you already had, and lost. It was the song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home. " I'm shedding tears thinking about it, man. The feeling if regret, and longing for what we once had and lost. Something we all can relate to. #TheOdyssey is one of the greatest films ever made.