RINHA DE CASAIS GREGOS:
orfeu e euridice
eros e psiquê
hades e persefone
apolo e jacinto
aquiles e patroclo
perseu e andromeda
apolo e ciparisso (apolo tinha um fetiche em transformar amante em planta??)
Reminder that it is the women who shape the plot of the Odyssey. From goddesses to slave women, they are all complex characters with important roles to play. Odysseus' homecoming is made possible only through the women of the story – whether that be Athena or Penelope or Circe.
very funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civ with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies”
And then Christopher Nolan, the genius, gave us Matt Damon "pew pew"ing with the bow, shooting it rapid-fire like it was a toy for children, while throwing in a strained face because…ACTING.
Except that the sirens aren’t meant to be tempting him with lust. They tempted him with knowledge unknown to any other in the poem
The former is a more modern addition