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So, when I realised there was an extremely extremely low chance that Eumaeus would be in Epic because of the plot changes, admittedly I was mad. But! In an 1 hour 45 min lot of insanity I've made a parody of I'm Just a Man called 'I'm just a slave' from the pov of Eumaeus regarding Telemachus whilst Odysseus is away. Due to him not being there this will most likely be my sole epic based post. Lyric analysis to come though I doubt people care. Also, I'm not a singer so you have my apologies, I just really like Eumaeus.
#eumaeus#epic the musical#telemachus#im just a man#the loyal swineherd#greek mythology#parody#broadway#odysseus#the odyssey#I don't want to put anymore tags so I don't seem like a bad person
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ahh elizabeth vandiver's lectures pointing out a heartbreaking moment in the odyssey i wasn't even aware of:
telemachus addresses eumaeus the swineherd as atta (ἄττα). in my fagles edition it's translated as "old friend", but as vandiver points out, atta has two meanings: it can be used as a familiar-but-respectful form of address to an older man (which is how telemachus uses it), but significantly it's also baby-talk for "father", parallel to papa/dada. it's what telemachus WOULD have called odysseus growing up, but now telemachus refers to him as xenos -- a visiting stranger/foreigner.
like imagine. odysseus is in disguise as a beggar, it's the first time he's seen his son since infancy, and one of the first things he hears telemachus say, to another man, is "daddy, who is this stranger?"
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