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Not going to mention the Odyssey would have been the more appropriate reference? The Iliad isn't really that long.
by tedunangst 3y ago
Not going to mention the Odyssey would have been the more appropriate reference? The Iliad isn't really that long.
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoMore Greeks (and Trojans) didn't make it out alive in The Iliad? I do think describing something as an "odyssey" now has generally positive connotations (presumably Honda wouldn't have used it to name a vehicle if we still took it to mean "long and torturous journey")
- sacnoradhq 3y agoI was thinking Gilgamesh followed by Sisyphus in the form of an animated caption on John Oliver where a popup dialog continues to ask when the user confirms to cancel with another dialog.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- goodbyesf 3y ago> Not going to mention the Odyssey would have been the more appropriate reference? The Iliad isn't really that long. The odyssey is modeled after the iliad. Both poems are divided into 24 books and both the trojan war and the voyage in odyssey was 10 years long. Iliad has more lines though - 15,693 (Iliad) vs 12,109 (Odyssey). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
- esafak 3y agoMaybe Odyssey would have been too on-the-nose!
- cafard 3y agoThe action of the Iliad covers a few days, but the siege of Troy is said to have lasted ten years. That matches up well with the Odyssey, which covers the last few days of another ten years. So I guess the question is whether the cancellation feels more like repeated shipwreck and stranding, or like being struck with edged weapons.