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A great leader surrounded by chucklenuts

Odysseus: *Takes 600 men to a 10 year war and no one died there*

The men afterwards: *open the bag of winds that leads them to get killed, blames Odysseus for it despite none of it happening if THEY DIDN'T OPEN THE DAMN BAG*

The rest of the men: *Goes into a random house against their second in commands orders and eat a strangers food that turns them into pigs and Odysseus had to save their asses A SECOND TIME*

One guy: *gets drunk there and breaks his neck by falling off a cliff and blames Odysseus for that for some wack ass reason*

The rest of the men: *Blame Odysseus for keeping his wits over his hubris and running away from Scylla and not dooming the whole rest of the fleet instead to kill her*

The rest of them: *Told one thing, ONE THING, not to eat the cattle of Helios, BUT THEN THEY EAT THE CATTLE OF HELIOS THAT CAUSES THEM ALL TO DIE AFTERWARDS*

Yes telling the cyclops his name was cool yet stupidly ballsy move in the musical and just stupidly ballsy in the ancient tale but let's be real here what happened to the crew was their own fault.

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Agamemnon: What scares you the most? Antilochus: Werewolves! Menelaus: Sharks. Odysseus: The unstoppable marching of time that is slowly guiding us all towards an inevitable death. Palamedes: Odysseus.

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I may study it in an academic setting but I will never not think the Odyssey is silly cause every time I think about it I always imagine a scene after Odysseus comes home where Telemachus asks him where he's been for the 10 years since the war ended and you know Odysseus had to pull a "you're not going to believe this shit"

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hes never lied in his life

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Diomedes: The first time I saw you, you stole my heart.

Odysseus: I’m a kleptomaniac, that doesn’t mean anything.

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Diomedes: *at Odysseus’ funeral* Can I have a moment alone with him?

Agamemnon: Of course. *leaves and takes everyone else with him*

Diomedes: *leaning over Odysseus’ coffin* I know you’re not dead you little shit.

Odysseus: *sitting up* Yeah. No-

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Odysseus: *getting down on one knee* Will you…

Odysseus: *hands Diomedes a weapon* be in cahoots with me?

Diomedes: *tearing up* Yes! Yes, I will be in cahoots with you!

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So I uhhh... I finished the Iliad. I had a lot of fun but there were so MANY weird ass funny moments that I HAD to draw. Enjoy my personal retelling of these bits. (The designs for the characters are very undocumented and definitely not final though).

PART ONE:

Part two over there!

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I find it incredibly funny from a meta/author perspective, that Ancient Greece decided to name their protagonist that angers many people “Anger Bringer” but, even funnier, is the in universe understating that anyone who meets Odysseus must have had the thought “oh dear, how unfortunate to be named hateful/hated” and then they have exactly One conversation with him and go “Ah I see now”

For reference, Odysseus’ name sounds very much like the Greek word odussomai, which can roughly mean “I am angry at” or “I am the cause of anger” (or simply “to hate” or “to dismiss”), a fact that is used for ironic effect frequently in the Odyssey.

It’s also specifically stated in Book 19 that Odysseus’ grandfather, a master thief and one who has also pissed off a lot of people, specifically named him this because “I am disliked by many, all across the world, and I dislike them back. So name the child Odysseus.” 19.428

Bro looked at his grandson and thought “Ahaha, this one’s going to be a troublemaker like me. Better get him started early.”

It’s like a terrible allegory for cause and effect or something.

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Polites died believing that the world is kind, and yet his death contributes to Odysseus deciding to become a monster. Absolutely devastating

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UNDERWORLD SAGA SKETCHY BECAUSE THE BRAINROT HAS BEGUN I HEARD THE STREAM AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO DOODLE BECAUSE I CANT SCREAM [low sat below the cut cuz it’s the underworld]

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"Is the cyclops struck with guilt when he kills? Is he up in the middle of the night?

Or does he end my men to avenge his friend, and then sleep knowing he has done him right?"

"When the witch turns men to pigs to protect her nymphs is she going insane?

Or did she learn to be colder when she got older, and now she saves them the pain?"

"When a god comes down and makes a fleet drown is he scared that he's doing something wrong?

Or does he keep us in check so we must respect him, and now no one dares to piss him off?"

"Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping trojans 'cause he is vile?

Or does he throw away his remorse and saves more lives with guile?"

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He...uh, isn't doing too well

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Forgive me.

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Odysseus and Polites got to an island and took advice from what is their world equivalent of THE GASTATION CRACKHEAD COMMUNITY.

No wonder one of them died.

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Monster's orchestration is the inverted minor version of Open Arms. Odysseus is undoing what Polites taught him. 🥲

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How can I greet the world with open arms in these conditions