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Witch of Tishapecfmov Dec 20 2005, 08:17 PM Post #76
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The Odyssey was a very enjoyable story, the read was painful but the actual story of Odysseus is AMAZING
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Telemachus just sits in the lap of luxury while he gets rich and famous.

And its a little too aristocratic. Apparently, Homer was an Aristocratic writer.

I kinda want to read the Titanomachy, but it'll probably be extremely hard to read and long.
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Telemachus just sits in the lap of luxury while he gets rich and famous.

And its a little too aristocratic. Apparently, Homer was an Aristocratic writer.

I kinda want to read the Titanomachy, but it'll probably be extremely hard to read and long.

Lol.
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Witch of Tishapecfmov Apr 16 2006, 12:09 PM Post #79
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Telemachus just sits in the lap of luxury while he gets rich and famous.

And its a little too aristocratic. Apparently, Homer was an Aristocratic writer.

I kinda want to read the Titanomachy, but it'll probably be extremely hard to read and long.

This is a truth among many heroes, however, none of them really EARN their keep. Since being a hero, or in the Odyssey's case godlike, is a job where people always give you money and gold and such, they are ALWAYS getting wealthier and wealthier so the children really need very little more.
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Drayke May 12 2006, 09:52 AM Post #80
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Telemachus just sits in the lap of luxury while he gets rich and famous.

And its a little too aristocratic. Apparently, Homer was an Aristocratic writer.

I kinda want to read the Titanomachy, but it'll probably be extremely hard to read and long.

...I'm bloody well impressed!

I'm currently shuffling through the Oddysey, not doing any work at all, and it's not bad.
I'd probably have enjoyed it more if it hadn't been mandatory reading for school.

As far as I'm concerned, Norse mythos > Greek and Roman mythos.
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I tend to like them both a lot. Sure, Greek and Roman mythology doesn't have cool long words to pop out in random conversations like:
- Gottendamerung
- Ragnarökr
- Yggdrasil
- Valkyrie
- Doppleganger (Germanic, but close enough)
But the Norse don't have gods that are all somehow good AND bad at the same time *cough* Poseidon *cough*.

Anyway, try liking The Odyssey when you have to memorize 25 lines and present it expressively to the whole class for around 20-30% of the unit mark ><.
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Witch of Tishapecfmov May 13 2006, 01:52 PM Post #82
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I tend to like them both a lot. Sure, Greek and Roman mythology doesn't have cool long words to pop out in random conversations like:
- Gottendamerung
- Ragnarökr
- Yggdrasil
- Valkyrie
- Doppleganger (Germanic, but close enough)
But the Norse don't have gods that are all somehow good AND bad at the same time *cough* Poseidon *cough*.

Anyway, try liking The Odyssey when you have to memorize 25 lines and present it expressively to the whole class for around 20-30% of the unit mark ><.

then again, I am impressed with all of the Greek God names! Much cooler than the norse:

Zeus > Odin
Aphrodite > Freya
Hades > Hel

Also, gods like Nemesis, Nike, and Hephaistos all make me happy!
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Very true. Apollo>Siegfried and stuff like that. I like the name Odin and Thor though. Frigg is kind of weird... Greek monsters though don't have the best names. (Manticore, Scylla, Hydra etcetera.)
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You forget however, that some of the greek monsters are aptly named.

Please consider the following:

Cerberus
The Titans
Gorgons
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Yeah, well, names don't get too much damn cooler than "Loki". LOKI! LOKI FTW!

And Vidar's pretty cool too.
I might be biased towards Norse mythology though, seeing as I went to Norway for a month and spend 60% of the time looking through museums and learning about the mythos... That was the best summer. Ever. Too bad I went ALONE! It got kinda dull. :\
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Messed-up Roman emperors > All mythology, ever.

Nero built a bridge of tied-together boats across the Bay of Naples and held parades across it all damn day, just 'cause he could. And from the writings of Suetonius, who wrote a historical work on the reign of Nero:
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XXVIII. Besides abusing freeborn boys and seducing married women, he debauched the vestal virgin Rubria. The freedwoman Acte he all but made his lawful wife, after bribing some ex-consuls to perjure themselves by swearing that she was of royal birth. He castrated the boy Sporus and actually tried to make a woman of him; and he married him with all the usual ceremonies, including a dowry and a bridal veil, took him to his house attended by a great throng, and treated him as his wife. And the witty jest that someone made is still current, that it would have been well for the world if Nero's father Domitius had had that kind of wife. This Sporus, decked out with the finery of the empresses and riding in a litter, he took with him to the assizes and marts of Greece, and later at Rome through the Street of the Images, fondly kissing him from time to time. That he even desired illicit relations with his own mother, and was kept from it by her enemiess who feared that such a relationship might give the reckless and insolent woman too great an influence, was notorious, especially after he added to his concubines a courtesan who was said to look very like Agrippina. Even before that, so they say, whenever he rode in a litter with his mother, he had incestuous relations with her, which were betrayed by the stains on his clothing.

XXIX. He so prostituted his own chastity that after defiling almost every part of his body, he at last devised a kind of game, in which, covered with the skin of some wild animal, he was let loose from a cage and attacked the private parts of men and women, who were bound to stakes, and when he had sated his mad lust, was dispatched by his freed man Doryphorus; for he was even married to this man in the same way that he himself had married Sporus, going so far as to imitate the cries and lamentations of a maiden being deflowered. I have heard from some men that it was his unshaken conviction that no man was chaste or pure in any partof his body, but that most of them concealed their vices and cleverly drew a veil over them; and that therefore he pardoned all other faults in those who confessed to him their lewdness.
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What the shit-f**king hell?! O.o
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What the shit-f**king hell?! O.o

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Bizarre, f**ked-up Roman emperors FTW!
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Sounds like fun.
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