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“At that, he wound a piece of sailor’s rope round the rotunda and round the mighty pillar, stretched up so high no foot could touch the ground... just so the girls, their heads all in a row, were strung up with the noose around their necks to make their death an agony. They gasped, feet twitching for a while, but not for long.”

Like father like son huh Telemachus 😒

‘”When the whole house is set in proper order, restore my halls to health: take out the girls between the courtyard wall and the rotunda. Hack at them with long swords, eradicate all life from them. They will forget the things the suitors made them do with them in secret, through Aphrodite.”’

I take back anything good I said about Odysseus lol

“Odysseus scanned all around his home for any man who might be still alive, who might be hiding to escape destruction. He saw them fallen, all of them, so many, lying in blood and dust, like fish hauled up out of the dark-gray sea in fine-mesh nets; tipped out upon the curving beach’s sand, they gasp for water from the salty sea....”

Talk about a simile 👁️👄👁️

‘Odysseus already had a plan. “Telemachus and I will keep the suitors trapped in the hall—however much they rage. You two, truss up his hands and feet behind him, drag him inside the storeroom, string him up, tying a knotted rope high on the column, and hoist him to the rafters. Torture him with hours of agony before he dies.”’

He would know a thing or two about death and destruction huh 😶

“He aimed his deadly arrow at Antinous. The young man sat there, just about to lift his golden goblet, swirling wine around, ready to drink.... Odysseus aimed at his throat, then shot. The point pierced all the way through his soft neck. He flopped down to the side and his cup slipped out of his hand. A double pipe of blood gushed from his nostrils.”

GET HIM

“So he had tricked them all. After examining the mighty bow carefully, inch by inch—as easily as an experienced musician stretches a sheep-gut string around a lyre’s peg and makes it fast—Odysseus, with ease, strung the great bow. He held it in his right hand and plucked the string, which sang like swallow-song, a clear sweet note.”

OH SH-

“He grasped the bow and stood astride the threshold, and he tried to string it, but he failed. His hands were soft, untrained by labor, and he grew worn out trying to pull it back.”

Soft hands, soft hands. Brother you got soft hands

‘“Stranger! Are you still here, still causing trouble, with begging and annoying those inside? I promise you a beating if you stay! Your begging is not welcome! This is not the only place in Greece where there is food.”’

These goddamn goat herders... WTF is their issue???

‘And then Melantho scolded Odysseus again. “Hey! Stranger! Will you keep causing trouble, roaming round our house at night and spying on us women here? Get out, you tramp! Be happy with your meal! Or you will soon get pelted with a torch! Be off!”’

We got slaves shitting on homeless people too damn

Bro why are the beggars (Odysseus in disguise and an actual beggar) fighting while the suitors are goading them on??? 😭😭 It's giving UFC match on the white house lawn