Comments on: Mythology Mondays: 1200 BCE, a Greek Odyssey

By: brandon tabesh

brandon tabesh — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:55:57 +0000

*his

By: brandon tabesh

brandon tabesh — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:55:28 +0000

yes i like the odyssey and how odyseus sacrifices a lot for hie crewmates

By: Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Odysseus and Calypso

Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Odysseus and Calypso — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:06:31 +0000

[...] of my ongoing retelling of the adventures of Odysseus. Part I and Part II are previous Mythology [...]

By: Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Telemachus sets sail

Hezabelle » Mythology Mondays: Telemachus sets sail — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:32:27 +0000

[...] (Read the first part of my series on Odysseus here) [...]

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:56:49 +0000

Ah! See, the intro was pretty exciting! (That was new stuff, right? I hadn’t just forgotten something you’d already said…)

The Agamemnon bit I remember from earlier, about him starting the Trojan war.

Poor Odysseus…

By: Hezabelle

Hezabelle — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:07:17 +0000

Odysseus was the King of Ithaca, but he wasn’t the one who led the Greeks, that was Agamemnon. The Trojan War was Agamemnon’s idea. In fact, Odysseus didn’t want to go, he had received an oracle saying that if he did he would not return until his son was grown. And he hadn’t sworn the oath of the horse, so he didn’t HAVE to go. But Agamemnon and the other Greek kings knew they needed Odysseus because of his brains, so they went to recruit him. Odysseus tried to pretend he was mad to get out of it, and started plowing his fields with salt and talking all crazy. But they knew he was faking, so they grabbed Telemachus from Penelope and threw him in front of the plow. Which Odysseus immediately pulled to a halt, to avoid killing his son. So they declared that if he was sane enough not to run over his son, he was sane enough to fight a war and he was honour bound to do so.

And yes, the Odyssey starts ten years after the war, but covers all the time in between, the ten years Odysseus spent “adventuring.”

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:39:22 +0000

I need to get the groundwork done… King Odysssusus (… I tried spelling it 3 times, but it’s late and…) was the … Greek king involved with the siege on Troy? As in, it was his idea to go over there and have a jolly good war?

And his Odyssey is his story AFTER the war, right?

Can’t wait for more!