Menelaus is baffling! Although rather a breath of fresh air from all the House of Atreus drama going on.
But Menealos and Helen -who is Clytemnestra's sister - ending up at peace with each other and living their best lives into old age while everyone else goes through tragedy after tragedy just defies every narrative convention then and now.
I love it. I have been giving Menelaus a hard time (I mean, dude wants to empty out his cities to bring Odysseus who as far as I know has never expressed any interest in moving from Ithaca?) but honestly maybe he's just themart one here...
Calypso and Odysseus: "I am taller, too" just cracks me up.
I know, right?? Meow! LOL, you are like an immortal goddess and you have to resort to this kind of pick-me line?
Not least because he's essentially saying that he'd rather face more untold suffering on the sea, complete with potential drowning, than stay around with her.
Yeah! And also I kind of imagine Penelope being human as, well, a plus from his point of view...
On Calypso's side, she does have a point when telling Hermes that the male gods never get asked to let their captives go.
She does have a point there!
What no comment on Athena providing Odysseus with a glow up so he really impresses the princess? BTW, this is the chapter on which the "the Odyssey was written by a woman, not a man" theorists are building their case. Their argument? All that business about Nausicaa using the excuse of having to do the washing on the beach as an excuse to go to said beach. A male poet, so the argument goes, would not know how women do their washing. (I think Robert Graves of "I, Claudius" fame was a fan of the "the Odyssey was written by a woman" theory.)
Haha. I was worried that the princess would fall in love with him, but fortunately that does not seem to be the case. Haha, I did not know this was one of Robert Graves' wacky ideas!
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But Menealos and Helen -who is Clytemnestra's sister - ending up at peace with each other and living their best lives into old age while everyone else goes through tragedy after tragedy just defies every narrative convention then and now.
I love it. I have been giving Menelaus a hard time (I mean, dude wants to empty out his cities to bring Odysseus who as far as I know has never expressed any interest in moving from Ithaca?) but honestly maybe he's just themart one here...
Calypso and Odysseus: "I am taller, too" just cracks me up.
I know, right?? Meow! LOL, you are like an immortal goddess and you have to resort to this kind of pick-me line?
Not least because he's essentially saying that he'd rather face more untold suffering on the sea, complete with potential drowning, than stay around with her.
Yeah! And also I kind of imagine Penelope being human as, well, a plus from his point of view...
On Calypso's side, she does have a point when telling Hermes that the male gods never get asked to let their captives go.
She does have a point there!
What no comment on Athena providing Odysseus with a glow up so he really impresses the princess? BTW, this is the chapter on which the "the Odyssey was written by a woman, not a man" theorists are building their case. Their argument? All that business about Nausicaa using the excuse of having to do the washing on the beach as an excuse to go to said beach. A male poet, so the argument goes, would not know how women do their washing. (I think Robert Graves of "I, Claudius" fame was a fan of the "the Odyssey was written by a woman" theory.)
Haha. I was worried that the princess would fall in love with him, but fortunately that does not seem to be the case. Haha, I did not know this was one of Robert Graves' wacky ideas!