I Don't Know Who Your Friend Is ╮(︶▽︶)╭

‼️ Tweet fake: "Está justo detrás de mí, ¿no?"

¡Todo está editado! ¿¿Jay no se ha tomado una foto con la estatua de Odiseo cuándo viajaron a Ítaca, cierto?? 😭😭 Solo vi que el resto del elenco si lo hizo y no he dejado de pensar en hacer esto.

I was bored

Powerless 🤷

[Penelope has finally returned home after 20 years. Around her, the bodies of Odysseus' suitors and their guards are lying lifelessly, hunted like the animals they are.

Penelope grows ever anxious at her husband's silent stare. Odysseus, in a state of shock, slowly moves closer to Penelope.]

Penelope, aware of her state, looks down nervously: Oh stop being so stoic, Odysseus. Go on... shout! Scream! Say something!

[She shuts her eyes, ready for her husband to call her the monster she knows she is. But he doesn't.

Odysseus gently cups her cheeks, lifting her head to meet his gaze. Penelope opens her eyes in surprise]

Odysseus, with eyes full of love and welling up with tears: You’re as beautiful as the day I lost you.

i swear every day i notice something new in Epic

the little piano notes in Puppeteer playing the Luck Runs Out melody starting around the 30 second mark?? i heard the other riffs but missed this one. oh man. Ody wanting to be alone, remembering how Eurylochus warned him. thinking about the 551 men who died because of him. Eurylochus remembering it too, but he doesn’t seem to hold resentment, just the guilt of knowing him opening the wind bag got them there. Ody maybe knowing about the wind bag already and pushing Eurylochus away so he doesn’t have to hear it when he’s already lost so many friends…

what a masterpiece

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

Okay, so I've been seeing a misunderstanding about Antinous' age going around, so here's my most recent bit of Odyssey research (read: combing through the entire Odyssey for scraps of dialogue)

First of all, the idea that Antinous is 19 is flat out incorrect. That's just folks doing a google search and not looking closely enough to realize that the 18-20-year-old Antinous is a different guy entirely (the lover of Emperor Hadrian). Antinous of Ithaca has no established canon age.

HOWEVER.

Telemachus indicates that Antinous, along with the other suitors, were adults when he was a child, or at least older than him.

When did the suitors arrive?

Four years ago, when Telemachus would've been 16.

Now, the bigger piece of evidence here:

Antinous was old enough before the war to have seen and remembered Odysseus well, but young enough that he was not forced to join the of-age men as soldiers.

Given this, I would assume he was at least 10, maybe as old as 15 when the Trojan war began. 20 years later, he is likely in his 30s when Odysseus returns from war.

It's also worth noting that Antinous' father is also present when Odysseus returns, implying that he was likely too old for war when the Trojan War began. While that doesn't necessarily indicate anything about Antinous' age, it does lend some strength to the argument that Antinous is on the older end of the scale, especially as the suitors are willing to defer to him as their leader.

This is how Tele was actually born trust me I was Homer’s editor (yes that is Polites and Eurylochus watching them in the first panel 😔)

Just discovered Epic: The Musical and holy cow.

I'm obsessed with it, especially the Ithaca Saga section.

I'm probably gonna do some translating videos of the songs to Portuguese so my fellow Brazilians who don't speak English can enjoy it too.

'Cause damn.

For anyone who's unfamiliar, it's a musical version of the Odyssey, and boy, it goes hard right from the get-go. The album is available for free on YouTube if anyone's curious.

20/10 recommend.

Odysseus is a bird