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Odyssey is a better and more relatable story

• _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  Didn't have time to read it but listened via LibriVox. It's a story of a violent age where thuggery ruled. Women were at the mercy of men (E.g. Penelope having to just about control a bunch of 'suitors'). I can't find it at the moment but IIRC Odysseus and his men put in at a port at a village, put all the men there to the sword and taje the women for slaves, sex and bounty. You get the picture. Scratch the surface and it gets ugly. (Fascinating read nonetheless)
  • cm2012 3y ago
    For sure. People talk about killing and enslaving a village super casually, like they don't consider it a moral question at all.
• jhanschoo 3y ago
  They are... different stories. The course invited the students to imagine when the Greeks were so obsessed with honor (just as we might be, say, so obsessed with riches), and how it nevertheless manifests in places in modern society. There is a value to that exercise. Also likely because it might have been one of few books accepted for a standard qualification.