The Odyssey

by Homer

“Dogs! So you thought I would not come back home from Troy? And so you fleeced my house, and raped my slave girls, and you flirted with my wife while I am still alive!

And now hes come back to find his palace desecrated sacked like troy, worst of all he hears you dare to touch his wife and hurt his boy ?? I personally would have had enough

But now the one responsible is dead— Antinous! It was all his idea.

OLD KING OUR LEADER IS DEAD YOUVE DESTROYED THE SERPENTS HEAD NOW THE REST OF US ARE NO LONGER A THREAT

Medon was sensible: he had been hiding under a chair,

a valid reaction i would argue

By torchlight they came out from their apartments, to greet Odysseus with open arms.

THEY SAID THE THING

Then I saw Odysseus surrounded by dead bodies. They lay on top of one another, sprawled across the solid floor. You would have been thrilled if you saw him, like a lion, drenched in blood and gore.

She knows her mistress is a spartan diva

“Woman! Your words have cut my heart! Who moved my bed?

How could you say. This.

At that, her heart and body suddenly relaxed.

ONLY MY HUSBAND KNEW THIS SO I GUESS THAT MAKES HIM YOUUU

This made him want to cry. He held his love, his faithful wife, and wept.

*cue incredible orchestral just a man reprise*

Odysseus told her how much he hurt so many other people, and in turn how much he had endured himself.

Left a trail of red on every island as he traded friends like objects he could use and hurt more lives than he could count on his hands. But hey. All of that was to bring him back to her

what the Cyclops did, and how he paid him back for ruthlessly eating his men.

Fab choice of words emily

Your white bones lay inside it, Lord Achilles, mixed with the bones of your dead friend Patroclus.

just best buds truly

he would have matched your gifts and welcomed you with open arms

Jorge.

Lying Odysseus replied, “I will tell you the truth completely.

All this dude does is lie. Literally why

“Father! It is me! I have been gone for twenty years, and now am home, in my own father’s country.

WHY ARE YOU JUST SCREWING WITH HIM FOR FUN WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT EXERCISE

his ruthless son,

tehe

Then Athena made the warring sides swear solemn oaths of peace for future times—still in her guise as Mentor.

In mentor we trust