Post #4141256

2026-07-27 16:08 UTC

Me, who writes typo-filled posts: "The Odyssey was fun! It failed the Bechdel test tho!🤡" Emily Wilson, heat bringer: "There are more female characters than in most Nolan movies, thanks to the source material. But none of them has much to say, in contrast to the characterisations in the poem."🔥🔥🔥 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man

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@RnDanger@infosec.exchange 2026-07-27 16:12

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io This link brought me to a page that says : Sorry! The LRB website is not currently accessible. We’re currently performing some essential maintenance on our website. Please check back shortly as this shouldn’t take long. In the meantime, you can still subscribe! And keep an eye on our Bluesky for further announcements

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@billiglarper@rollenspiel.social 2026-07-27 16:15

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Oh, nice review! Thanks for sharing. 😊

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@skua@mastodon.social 2026-07-27 16:16

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io No gods, less women-speak? The Graceful Ones may not be appreciative. Without Athena what will be done to Orestes? #Eumenides

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@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us 2026-07-27 16:27

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Boo. I can't get through to the LRB website...

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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-07-28 00:40

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io emily wilson does brilliant translations. her review is also brilliant, scathing, yet fair. i'm really looking forward to her release of Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea next month, talking about the challenges of translating ancient works.

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@samuel@social.whatshouldyoueat.com 2026-07-27 16:41

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io what a review! i'm gonna have to read her translation now

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@foolishowl@social.coop 2026-07-27 16:55

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io "Nolan’s vision of the world is not quite big enough to include either real gods or real people who might be different from us."

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@CptSuperlative@toot.cat 2026-07-27 17:50

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io There’s an ancient virtue prized by the original audiences/transmittors/author(s) - Reverence. Which is the habit of mind/heart for setting limits upon oneself. For considering the other side, for remembering one’s own flaws and innate mortality, for maintaining perspective and respect for the awfulness (that which ought to fill one with awe) of reality. The virtue was everywhere in ancient stories. The Tower of Babel is about reverence. It hasn’t been very popular for quite some time.

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