Appreciation

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yesman@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 16d (8 replies)

It's likely that Homer didn't author the Odyssey, but rather wrote down the oral tradition that already existed.

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 16d (2 replies)

It's likely Marge did the actual writing and let Homer take the credit.

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 16d

If Marge was the author, large potatoes would feature more prominently in the story.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d

He was thinking of calling it "all work and no go on adventure make Odysseus something something"

CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 16d (1 reply)

Oh yes, please tell me more about this oral tradition of the ancient Greeks! ;)

ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 16d

Something something only male apprentices for male scholars something something the semen contains the knowledge...that's about the jizz of it

eurodyne@piefed.world · 10 pts · 16d (2 replies)

It’s also uncertain whether Homer was even a real person himself.

JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 16d (1 reply)

Would the name Homer not just refer to the person/people who wrote these stories down or is there more to it than that?

eurodyne@piefed.world · 10 pts · 16d

possibly-- Homer may have been an actual person, or the name may just refer to an amalgamation of people who compiled many myths and legends, passed down for generations through oral tradition, to paper, once and for all.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 16d

The manga is better.

BoneheadBruin@pawb.social · 11 pts · 16d (1 reply)

OP sounds like some kind of Homer simp, or perhaps a Homer simp's son

apex32@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d

Possible homer sexual.

chetradley@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 16d (1 reply)

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d

Great visual pun

bizarroland@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 16d

My good friend, this hulking dude who only has one eye, said that no one wrote it.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 16d

Whomever it is I bet they are rich AF now.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 16d

Wonder how many people are "omg that's why that ep was called "homer's odyssey" " and how many more i created with this comment

ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d

Isn't it an autobiography?

stevles@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 16d

What? There’s a poem?

/s

altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 16d

It's crazy how Hatsune Miku went from THIS to Harry Potter 🤮