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Daniel Seltier
is on page 359 of 496
Book 9 finished.
This contains the famous Cyclops story, entertaining gore, and a lot of sheep.
— Sep 23, 2025 11:22PM
This contains the famous Cyclops story, entertaining gore, and a lot of sheep.
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Daniel Seltier
is on page 481 of 496
Book 12 finished.
This was full of memorable moments: Sirens, sea monsters and Odysseus' stupid crew performing a disgraceful sacrifice as an excuse for slaughtering Helios' beloved cattle.
Against stupidity even Odysseus 'of many counsels' is helpless.
— Oct 05, 2025 12:55PM
This was full of memorable moments: Sirens, sea monsters and Odysseus' stupid crew performing a disgraceful sacrifice as an excuse for slaughtering Helios' beloved cattle.
Against stupidity even Odysseus 'of many counsels' is helpless.
Daniel Seltier
is on page 449 of 496
Book 11 finished.
Odysseus meets his dead friends in Hades. Homer's obsession and struggle with the topics of death and immortality is quite strong here; we get moving encounters e.g. with his dead mother. Another cool thing is all the short myths (often only a paragraph) of the heroines and heros.
I really liked that one despite it's dubious authenticity.
— Oct 03, 2025 04:31AM
Odysseus meets his dead friends in Hades. Homer's obsession and struggle with the topics of death and immortality is quite strong here; we get moving encounters e.g. with his dead mother. Another cool thing is all the short myths (often only a paragraph) of the heroines and heros.
I really liked that one despite it's dubious authenticity.
Daniel Seltier
is on page 401 of 496
Book 10 finished.
The Circe story is great. Odysseus sleeping with her was totally unnecessary but Homer, as so often, wanted to make it spicy. Maybe he needed a reason why they accidently stayed for a whole year.
— Sep 29, 2025 01:18AM
The Circe story is great. Odysseus sleeping with her was totally unnecessary but Homer, as so often, wanted to make it spicy. Maybe he needed a reason why they accidently stayed for a whole year.
Daniel Seltier
is on page 317 of 496
Book 8 finished.
Homer really stresses that Odysseus has PTSD. In this book he is not so much the hero as the minstrel Demodocus (he's literally called "hero" (483)) and his powerful music. An important source of ancient song culture. The self-referentiality is quite interesting to watch - Homer wanted to praise himself a little bit.
— Sep 17, 2025 11:26PM
Homer really stresses that Odysseus has PTSD. In this book he is not so much the hero as the minstrel Demodocus (he's literally called "hero" (483)) and his powerful music. An important source of ancient song culture. The self-referentiality is quite interesting to watch - Homer wanted to praise himself a little bit.
Daniel Seltier
is on page 247 of 496
Book 6 finished.
Homer once again thought the story needs some spice and thus introduces Odysseus to Nausicaa ...
— Sep 12, 2025 12:18AM
Homer once again thought the story needs some spice and thus introduces Odysseus to Nausicaa ...
Daniel Seltier
is on page 221 of 496
Book 5 finished.
Now Odysseus appears, but he's quite a wretch, always sad and crying. Not at all the hero you would expect him to be. I pitied him :(
The stranding scenes at the end are memorable.
— Sep 10, 2025 07:16AM
Now Odysseus appears, but he's quite a wretch, always sad and crying. Not at all the hero you would expect him to be. I pitied him :(
The stranding scenes at the end are memorable.
Daniel Seltier
is on page 183 of 496
Book 4 finished.
This was a long one. I mean, it's nice to see Helen return and to hear the cool Proteus story but, Homer, where's Odysseus? Homer seems to have a tendency to announce his protagonists with the most epic phrases to get us hyped and then to dwell in some side plots. And this book is just side plots of the Telemachus side plot ...
— Sep 03, 2025 12:32PM
This was a long one. I mean, it's nice to see Helen return and to hear the cool Proteus story but, Homer, where's Odysseus? Homer seems to have a tendency to announce his protagonists with the most epic phrases to get us hyped and then to dwell in some side plots. And this book is just side plots of the Telemachus side plot ...
Daniel Seltier
is on page 119 of 496
Book 3 finished.
How old is Nestor? In the Iliad he did nothing else than complaining about "grievious old age" and telling stories of long long ago (why was he even there?). But the Iliad is 10 years ago and now Telemachus visits him! Seeing him alive is a bigger marvel than Athene turning into an eagle in front of his eyes in this book. I bet he's a vampire or so ...
— Aug 27, 2025 01:06PM
How old is Nestor? In the Iliad he did nothing else than complaining about "grievious old age" and telling stories of long long ago (why was he even there?). But the Iliad is 10 years ago and now Telemachus visits him! Seeing him alive is a bigger marvel than Athene turning into an eagle in front of his eyes in this book. I bet he's a vampire or so ...
