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Odyssey Ending?
Archaeologists may have discovered the tomb of Odysseus.
Posted by Rand Simberg at September 24, 2005 01:40 PM
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POROS, Island of Kefalonia, Greece — The tomb of Odysseus has been found, and the location of his legendary capital city of Ithaca discove...
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I can hardly contain my enthusiasm at this news.
Odysseus the great navigator - it took him ten years to sail 200 miles. And when his wife thought he was dead and finally started dating again, he murdered all her dates. Let's keep him buried.
Posted by Ralf Goergens at September 24, 2005 02:24 PM
Soon to be the 18,792nd holiest place in Islam....
Posted by Barbara Skolaut at September 24, 2005 05:53 PM
Ralf, WTF?
(Is it the weather? This isn't the first bizarro outburst I've seen today from someone.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at September 24, 2005 07:20 PM
I may have been a bit peevish, Andrea. :)
But I did correctly rate his performance - Troja is located about 200 miles from Ithaka, and he did kill Penelope's suitors when he got back, to 'avenge his honor'. What a jerk.
Posted by Ralf Goergens at September 25, 2005 09:42 AM
You mean the suitors who were trashing his house, eating Penelope out of house and home (not to mention sexually harassing her), and threatening his son Telemachus with violent death? Those jerks? Maybe he should've hugged them and tried to understand their pain. I mean, are you really serious?
Posted by Andrea Harris at September 25, 2005 12:38 PM
No, not really. Tongue in cheek and all that.
Posted by Ralf Goergens at September 25, 2005 12:59 PM
Odysseus is pretty much unique in the whole Greek mythos. Here is a man who challenged the Gods and won by sheer cunning.
While Hercules, in comparison, was Zeus's son and is often depicted as brutish and stupid.
BTW he did not murder *all* the suitors. He left Medon and Phemius alive. :-D
Posted by Gojira at September 25, 2005 03:37 PM
Actually, it only took him one year to sail 200 miles. He spent nine years bedding Circe.
Posted by Ilya at September 25, 2005 05:30 PM
Wow just imagine that he could have real existed that means other fictional persons could have lived i mean its like minding the remains of TROY
Posted by spurwing plover at October 3, 2005 01:09 PM
I think......it's not possible
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