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Sam M
is 13% done
book 2 done!
this seems like the true beginning of telemachos’ story, finally willing enough to express his distaste towards his mother’s gluttonous suitors and (with athena’s aid) he prepares for the journey. antinoos seems like a rival of sorts to telemachos, constantly antagonizing and patronizing the boy.
“Many are the birds who under the sun's rays wander the sky; not all of them mean anything”
— Nov 28, 2025 09:35PM
this seems like the true beginning of telemachos’ story, finally willing enough to express his distaste towards his mother’s gluttonous suitors and (with athena’s aid) he prepares for the journey. antinoos seems like a rival of sorts to telemachos, constantly antagonizing and patronizing the boy.
“Many are the birds who under the sun's rays wander the sky; not all of them mean anything”
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Sam M
is 48% done
“The War God rages at all, and favors no man.”
book 11 was spooky as shit! loved when he passed over the iconic mythical punishments (sisyphos, tantalos, tityos)
the part with odysseus’ mother was genuinely tragic, this whole sequence was great especially with the antinöos interlude lol
— 12 hours, 9 min ago
book 11 was spooky as shit! loved when he passed over the iconic mythical punishments (sisyphos, tantalos, tityos)
the part with odysseus’ mother was genuinely tragic, this whole sequence was great especially with the antinöos interlude lol
Sam M
is 43% done
book 10 donezo!! this one was mainly circe’s island and the pig stuff, really fun chapter with an embarassing death (dude who got drunk and fell off roof lookingfot his friends)
— Dec 25, 2025 09:26PM
Sam M
is 39% done
what i said before about each book geting better still stands… book 8 is a phenomenal chapter in ‘the odyssey’, the famous cyclops sequence and the true inciting incident for odysseus and his crew (since the cyclops is poseidon’s son and curses him and his voyage)
the bit where the cyclops first grabs two of odysseus’ men is genuinely horrifying, i cant wait to see nolan’s interpretation of the sequence
— Dec 23, 2025 07:25PM
the bit where the cyclops first grabs two of odysseus’ men is genuinely horrifying, i cant wait to see nolan’s interpretation of the sequence
Sam M
is 30% done
book7 was incredibly short, but still enjoyable. odysseus is in the city of the phaiakians asking for ship. nice little chapter with athena disguising odysseus. most interesting part to me was when odysseus started talking about how hungry he is by likening his stomach to another godlike being. this is recurring, anything of value or seemingly organic gets treated with the utmost respect and worship
— Dec 23, 2025 04:56PM
Sam M
is 29% done
book 6 is simply a reprieve from odysseus’ tiresome 20day journey across the ocean on a raft (and without one for the last two days(!!!!!!)), but the most interesting thing to me is how the supernatural elements are so natural. pallas athene transforming into the best friend of nausikaa and speaking to her while she is tired and asleep ends up with nausikaa believing she dreamt it up.
— Dec 23, 2025 04:42PM
Sam M
is 26% done
book 5 was basically just detailing how odysseus escaped kalypso’s island, and it was thrilling! seeing him make such a strong raft after his woeful beach appearance was great, and it was genuinely pretty intense reading his sleepless journey. poseidons a dick!
— Dec 22, 2025 02:57PM
Sam M
is 23% done
god, each Book gets better and better… (bk4)
Telemachos talks to Menelaos, hero of ‘The Iliad’, husband to Zeus’ daughter, Helen of Troy. My favorite part was the Old Man being ambushed for the answers of how to reach home but also who survived and who did not. The shapeshifting was dope, and there’s a small sequence where Poseidon causes someone’s death and it’s so cool
— Dec 21, 2025 01:39PM
Telemachos talks to Menelaos, hero of ‘The Iliad’, husband to Zeus’ daughter, Helen of Troy. My favorite part was the Old Man being ambushed for the answers of how to reach home but also who survived and who did not. The shapeshifting was dope, and there’s a small sequence where Poseidon causes someone’s death and it’s so cool
Sam M
is 16% done
book 3 feels like the true “beginning”, telemachos talked to the guy that was in troy and now he’s going to speak to menelaos who (i believe) is the protagonist in the iliad. i liked the bit in the end when athena transformed into a bird and spooked everyone
— Dec 14, 2025 07:04AM
Sam M
is 10% done
book 1 done!
[it clicked for me when Athena was disapproving of Penelope’s suitors that I vaguely know the ending of the book; the painting of Odysseus and his dog, Argos(Argus?)]
i enjoyed the introduction of these characters, grief-stricken Telemachus, his mother Penelope, suitors like Antinoos and Eurymachos as well as the overt supernatural presence of gods and otherwise.
— Nov 26, 2025 11:54AM
[it clicked for me when Athena was disapproving of Penelope’s suitors that I vaguely know the ending of the book; the painting of Odysseus and his dog, Argos(Argus?)]
i enjoyed the introduction of these characters, grief-stricken Telemachus, his mother Penelope, suitors like Antinoos and Eurymachos as well as the overt supernatural presence of gods and otherwise.
Sam M
is 6% done
ok, why not! so far, i know odysseus is returning home after an adventure during which he blinded the son of poseidon, (a cyclops whose like the best cyclops ever) so poseidon’s pissed at him but zeus and athena try to help odysseus return so athena is going to speak to odysseus’ son telemachus and see if he can find anything out.
excited to read this!
— Nov 26, 2025 07:35AM
excited to read this!
