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[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

Athena, had a temper of her own. She was born from an act of violence (albeit Zeus literally asked for it), and continued to flash her rage in different accounts. She saw herself in Odysseus. She favoured the similiarities she shared with him.

[𝒟𝒶𝓃𝒾 🎀 @youluvvdanii]

Did Athena help Odysseus because he earned it... or because she simply favored him?

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

Sinon was told to tell the Trojans that the horse was a gift from the Gods. But Sinon didn’t know that the Greeks were inside. Odysseus couldn’t risk Sinon alerting the Trojans, upset that he was the bait. If it truly were a gift, burning it would have broken Zeus’ Law.

[bigbrownson 🇺🇸 @bigbrownson]

Why did the Trojans to drag the Horse inside the city instead of burning it where it stood?

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

Nobody cared for Argus in Odysseus’ absence because caring for the dog would in some way mean they would be admitting to themselves that Odysseus was gone and never coming back. Nobody in Ithaca wanted to believe Odysseus wasn’t coming back, least of all Penelope. It’s poetic.

[🧚 @paloma_datgirl]

If Penelope truly loved Odysseus as much as people claim… why did Argos, the dog who waited 20 years for his master’s return, have to die the moment he finally saw him again?

Odysseus loved that dog, so how did nobody in Ithaca take care of his most loyal companion all those years?

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

@dfw_ella_ He wanted to be the first man alive to hear it and live to tell the tale. But to hear the Siren’s Call is, as Odysseus describes it, “the thing you want most but can’t have, because the thing you want most is what you already had and lost.” For him, that’s home.

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

The Odyssey is an incredible movie, I personally think my new favourite, but there are also parts that I’m sure Nolan would have loved to have included. But with a near 3-hour runtime already, some would have had to have been cut or missed entirely. Still, a masterful retelling.

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

Everything The Odyssey left out of the movie:

1. In the original, Odysseus and his men stop at the Island of the Lotus Eaters. They offer them lotus flowers, which make you forget and wander aimlessly. Odysseus does consume lotus flowers in the movie, but only when with Calypso.

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

Cassandra warns Agamemnon that upon arrival back at his palace, he will be slain by a “treacherous lioness”. Ignoring her, he returns to the palace, only to suffer the fate Cassandra had warned of at the hands of his own wife, Clytemnestra, who sought to avenge their daughter.

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

Either way, he took the coward’s way out. Hence the spine on his helmet. The physical manifestation of his declaration of war. How his wife viewed him from the moment he left until the moment she killed him and took her revenge. Foreshadowmaxxing, in a way. Genius.

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

Agamemnon’s “spine” being outside of his body in The Odyssey, and instead being an embellishment on his helmet, was a genius play from Nolan. He stands and “aura farms” while his men break Zeus’ Law left, right and center. Not to mention Iphigenia’s death before the Trojan War.

[𝓚🤍 @karynvalentinax]

So, this leaves Agamemnon in an impossible spot. Piss off not one, but two of the Olympians, one of which being the “Big Guy”, or throw his daughter off a cliff and go let his men kill a bunch of people and demigods.