The wuss-i-fication of the University of Exeter. Hopefully, it’s not contagious.
The ninth grade boys LOVED these when I taught them. Distressing content is what they live for
When Christopher Nolan puts this out on film I hope he doesn’t put porn in it like he did with Oppenheimer. Ugh
I’ve read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
It does not need a trigger warning.
“Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey hit with trigger warnings by university”
They’re panicking over nothing. It’s next to impossible for (relatively few) guys in college to be drawn-in by hot babes, as there’s basically nothing but FEMINISTS left in all but a few universities. So, no need for a ‘trigger warning’.
I was traumatized by the “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The Grinch was born with a heart defect of a small size. This organ shaming just won’t do.
the whole story is one huge journey, beset along the way, by the gods.
“What? DidjathinkitsgonnabeaGreyhoundbusride?”
‘the man’ angered the gods!
Listening to The Odyssey on my commute.
Plenty of times to think, weren’t you a lot of murderous, lecherous, looting, raping, prideful bastards, granting piety to gods not much better than yourselves. But brave.
Agammemnon got what was coming to him.
Trigger warnings? I didn’t need trigger warnings when I was twelve.
The thing that shocked me in the Odyssey, when I read the adult version:
Odysseus kills the suitors of his wife. He makes the maids who had sex with them scrub the blood from the floor, and then he hangs them from the rafters of the hall - pulling them up to slowly strangle.
Did they have much choice about sex? Did they mock Penelope and make her life a misery? One of them betrayed her unraveling the weaving.
But Oddyseus - he who took women captive, who spent a year in Circe’s bed and seven in Calypso’s, he kills them, and is lovingly welcomed by chaste Penelope.
Even Helen is forgiven, the wise and wonderful wife of Menelaus. She is the daughter of Zeus after all - the divine not bound by sexual morality, not like the daughters of men.
“An his armor clanged on him” does cause stress in the faint heart class. Same for mentions of “Black blood” and where “the arrow came out below his armor” or “came out through the cheek bone.”
I read the Odyssey in High School, 1961. It did more to get me interested in reading than all the D-U-L-L English literature we were required to read. Thankfully the CAPTAIN BLOOD TRILOGY saved my day. Then The Beau Geste Trilogy and BEAT TO QUARTERS trilogy.
It’s much much better in the original Greek because there is play on words, onomatopoeia, word rhythm tata-ta-ta etc.... this is all lost in translation. It’s like translating a rap song into
Latin.
I think I was in middle school (junior high) when I read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
It’s ironic because all the wengy-libs have no idea how many times hollywood has lifted ideas from the Blind Bard for their favorite movies. We are devolving, not evolving.
I read them to my kids when they were 7-8.
“Sing, oh Goddess...”
I did edit the very bloody bits.
It worked. One kid surprised me by citing Runciman in HS. I had no idea that he was reading THAT.
Another graduated summa cum laude out of UC.
None had to actually study in school, that wasn’t math.
Ay, por favor-esta mierda otra vez? Grow up-it is classical literature, not a f’in nursery rhyme...
My mom bought “Bulfinche’s Mythology”-all 3 books-for me to learn the Classics from when I was 11 years old, and that was not really unusual for a parent who happened to be a teacher of English and literature-I was interested enough to check other works of Homer and other classical authors at the public library in town. I still like the classics and i was never triggered or upset otherwise by the violence in those tales-life was brutal at that time in history, and that is reflected in the literature-duh. Hubby and I allowed our cub to start reading those stories at 12, but by then, people thought we were just being weird, or raising a future intellectual snob...
There was a young woman of Exeter, so pretty men craned their necks at ‘er........
Simple. Replace all college lit programs with dross selections only from Oprah’s Book Club. It’s what they’re heading for eventually.
We need vomit warnings before reading headlines about trigger warnings.
Barf alerts help!
England? How about America?
I started watching the Netflix series Troy that is a recounting of the Iliad. It was going very well until Hercules.
Hercules was introduced as a fantastic warrior, the son of Zeus, the son of God. Hercules was played by a full-fledged unmistakable, racist actor ........ an wide nosed, big lipped Negro.
Letting that big horse through the gate was entirely too metaphorical for some readers.