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The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental #Odyssey adaptation - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/10/the-return-review-juliette-binoche-ralph-fiennes-odyssey-uberto-pasolini looks fun
#sicilia #sicily #happyisland #isolafelice #italy
#CittàSommersa #Archeologia #SitiSommersi #MysteryofSicily #AndréChaisson #Portopalo #CapoPassero #Telopylos #Omero #Odissea #Mythology #SubmergedCity #Archaeology #SubmergedSites #Homer #Odyssey
https://www.balarm.it/news/una-nuova-scoperta-al-largo-della-sicilia-dov-e-la-citta-sommersa-di-10mila-anni-fa-153717
What has a beginning, also has an end… the new translation by Kurt Steinmann teased me and indeed it was a great joy to read the Odyssey for once! Overall took me about 2 and a half years - with some Proust in between but that’s the next big thing.
Odysseus and the boar's tusk helmet. #Odyssey #classics #AncientHistory Neil's post: https://ancientblogger.com/odysseus-and-the-boars-tusk-helmet/
It really boils me when people doing these Greek myth movies are using the wrong attires (800 years off target!). The new pic released from Chris Nolan's #Odyssey ( https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-odyssey-matt-damon-odysseus-christopher-nolan-1236311018/ ) shows an attire from the Classical period, and not from the #Mycenaean times. Here's how they really looked at the time instead.
Also, please stop showing Greek landscapes completely bare in #movies. We have trees. Especially on the mainland.
Get ready to sail back in time! 
️ Dive into the fascinating world of the ancient Mediterranean, where the Greeks 
and Phoenicians 
were the ultimate power players! 
Listen to the newest AI-generated podcast episode: 
https://t.uzh.ch/1Nv https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/aincient-studies-lab/episodes/13-Greek-and-Phoenician-Trade-Perceptions-and-Stereotypes-e2tpno1
These seafaring civilizations dominated trade, built incredible structures, and shaped history! 
But it wasn't all smooth sailing... 
Intense rivalry brewed beneath the surface, leading to some juicy stereotypes. 
Think cunning traders and maybe even a little kidnapping! 
(Remember Eumaios from the Odyssey? 
). Explore the complex relationship between these ancient giants - a story of admiration, envy, and fierce competition for control of the seas! 
Interestingly, our artificial hosts deviated from the main topic to an interesting discussion about "cultural literacy".
#AncientHistory #DigitalHumanities #AI #Phoenicians #TradeWars #Mythology #HistoryBuff #Odyssey #AncientCivilizations #Lebanon #greece #CulturalLiteracy
An Economic Approach to #Homer’s #Odyssey: Part I - https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/01/an-economic-approach-to-homers-odyssey-part-i.html novel and interesting approach
Martian Memories
Neretva Vallis, shot from the northernmost point ever reached by Perseverance during her Odyssey.
#Mars Dec. 7, 2023 (Sol 995)
Enhanced color image processing by the Mastcam-Z team.
Christopher #Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The #Odyssey - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/24/christopher-nolan-next-film-the-odyssey presumably this starts with Odysseus' return to Ithaca, and then works back to the Trojan War... #cinema
𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗔𝗻 𝗢𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘆: 𝗔 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿, 𝗔 𝗦𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰 " 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗵𝗻 -
Mendelsohn's memoir finds uncanny and revealing parallels between a father auditing his son's class on Homer and the epic's father-son relationships.
In my latest blog post I go back to Ancient Greece to think about a current problem.
What's a hero?
In her introduction to the The Odyssey, translator Emily Wilson examines Odysseus' status as a hero. In the narrative, one of his interlocutors ask Odysseus if he's a pirate, which he denies although he doesn't deny the violent and treacherous acts attributed to him. What it meant to be a hero was rather different in Homer's Greece than in our time.
𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗔𝗻 𝗢𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘆” 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗵𝗻 -
A professor of Homer finds his "difficult" father auditing his class. A memoir that also brings Homer to new life!
For #MythologyMonday -- I want to shout out Polyphemus -- the one-eyed giant who didn't *ask* for visitors and didn't *want* to share his hard-earned goods with some random sailors, and ended up blinded and fooled by Odysseus as a result.
(and, okay, full disclosure, he did eat a few sailors...)
The beloved Electric Umbrella talking can, now located at the Odyssey Pavilion, has been rebranded as an "Official Muppet Labs Trash Can" for the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Same classic audio track remains. #TrashCanTuesday
| https://buff.ly/4eBKNPs
| Jeremiah Good
Used by Permission. #MagicalTrash #Disney #DisneyTrashCan #TrashCan #DisneyParks #Photography #Orlando #WDW #Epcot #Odyssey #Muppets #FoodAndWine
Samsung’s new Odyssey monitor lets you play games in glasses-free 3D.
While I'm sure it won't be cheap, at least not for a while, I'd be curious to see how well it works.
War is warm this year
Echoes from the Odyssey
Oksana Maksymchuk
#Poetry #OksanaMaksymchuk #Odyssey #War #Literature #AirRaid #Sirens
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 
"He [Odysseus] found the Phaiakian lords and rulers pouring libations from their cups to the keen-sighted Radiant One (Argeiphontes) [#Hermes] to whom by custom they poured libation last when they turned their thoughts to the night's rest."
Homer, #Odyssey 7.137
Hermes and satyr, Athenian red-figure clay vase, ~525-475 BCE, #Berlin Antikensammlung
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt
Ok, tired, going to bed, but quick reminder about #TheSundaySessions broadcasting on Twitch as usual at 10am BST.
More blunderful #AssassinsCreed #Odyssey as I do #GamesPlayedBadly.
Https://www.twitch.tv/Randomcompanion
Grab your crumpets and your breakfast teas/coffees and settle in for more shanktastic action from the ancient Greek world