Curiously, in Italy, a country where the Iliad and Odyssey each constitute a full-year mandatory subject for all students (second to this in the world only to Greece), Nolan’s Odyssey is now the top grossing movie of the year. The success of the movie is so overwhelming that, over the past weekend, it basically caught back up in sales to Spider-Man Brand New Day (not seen anywhere else in the world). You can’t possibly find any more educated audience in the world than Italy when it comes to epic poetry: Italian students follow up the 2 years of Homer with one full-year of mandatory Virgil’s Aeneid and 3 (THREE) full years of Dante, one per each book of the Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise). And we re not talking about some sort of second-tier subject. Italian students dedicate about 2 hours a week for the whole year to the subject “Epica” which constitutes a complementary (and core) subject to Italian literature. Not just some reading and summaries, but commentary, critical analysts, history of interpretation etc.
And apparently a mind more ready to embrace novel reinterpretations of epic material than certain Anglo-Saxon classicist specialists…
@lilangelsdonut Questa é letteralmente la mia speranza perché all’università sono sta da cani veramente,mi manca solo la tesi ma ti giuro proprio a pezzi
Milano non ha pace con sti concerti, prima Rosalia ora Bad Bunny…forse finalmente anche l’universo si sta ribellando contro questa mafia dei concerti in quella città scusate
personally, i think one of the most dangerous things about beating children, is that you teach them early enough that someone can love them and still physically hurt them. imagine your daughters growing up and navigating romantic relationships with this notion.
i hate when people open up about things that genuinely took a toll on their mental health whilst growing up ,then someone who grew up in a stable home tries to dismiss what they're feeling.