songs of salvation to salve the soul
Still the best adaptation of the Odyssey made yet.
(Source: orcses, via shadesofbrixton)
"As he spoke, he gave a signal with his eyebrows.
Telemachus, godlike Odysseus’ dear son,
cinched up his sword, closed his fist around a spear,
moved close beside his father, right by his seat,
and stood there, fully armed with glittering bronze."
Telemachus, godlike Odysseus’ dear son,
cinched up his sword, closed his fist around a spear,
moved close beside his father, right by his seat,
and stood there, fully armed with glittering bronze."
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The Odyssey (via brttnykn)
#the amount of communicating with eyebrows that goes on in the odyssey is hilarious
(via marthur)
This one goes out to you, magpieandwhale.
(via notyourplayground)
Ha! The amount of communicating with eyebrows that goes on in my own fiction… well, at least I know where that comes from now.
(Source: brttvny, via notyourplayground)
The Odyssey, Homer.
As requested by atticus-finches.
Heartclench. Story of my innermost heart.
The Odyssey of Homer by William Russell Flint
i jsut love athena. when i was growing up, i was pretty much an athena cult of one.
The Odyssey is an automatic reblog.
(via marioemilio)
Radiolab Podcast: Why Isn’t the Sky Blue?
I can’t stop thinking about this. As a lifelong student of Homer and a longtime lover of science, languages and culture, this blew my mind like it hasn’t been blown in what feels like years. Absolutely incredible!
What is the color of honey, and “faces pale with fear”? If you’re Homer—one of the most influential poets in human history—that color is green. And the sea is “wine-dark,” just like oxen…though sheep are violet. Which all sounds…well, really off. Producer Tim Howard introduces us to linguist Guy Deutscher, and the story of William Gladstone (a British Prime Minister back in the 1800s, and a huge Homer-ophile). Gladstone conducted an exhaustive study of every color reference in The Odyssey and The Iliad. And he found something startling: No blue!
Supposedly Gladstone’s chapter on colors in Homer is available here; I will have to take a look at it, because wow.
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Francesco Primaticcio, Odysseus and Penelope (1563)
I’ve had this open in my tabs for ages and ages. I will never stop finding the pair of them fascinating.
Dora Wheeler, Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night. 1886. Silk embroidered with silk thread, 114.3 x 172.7 cm.
I yearn for Odysseus, always, my heart pines away.
They rush the marriage on, and I spin out my wiles.
A god from the blue it was inspired me first
to set up a great loom in our royal halls
and I began to weave, and the weaving finespun,
the yarns endless, and I would lead them on: ‘Young men,
my suitors, now that King Odysseus is no more,
go slowly, keen as you are to marry me, until
I can finish off this web…’— The Odyssey, 19.151-59.
Oh wow, how completely gorgeous.
I saw this lady in concert last night. She was freaking amazing, and as someone who’s been obsessed with the Odyssey since she was tiny, this song keeps following me around, and that’s grand.
