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Posted on 07/07/2026 7:09:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan
OK. So Helen’s beauty sparks a war.
Athena is a strategic goddess guiding Odysseus.
Penelope embodies clever loyalty.
Circe turns men into pigs, which frankly is still the most realistic female character arc in literature.
Calypso traps the hero on an island for seven years.
Cassandra can literally see the future but nobody listens, making her the first woman in recorded history to experience a meeting.
The Sirens weaponize music.
Nausicaa saves Odysseus when he washes up naked and useless.
Andromache gives one of the most devastating anti-war speeches in the Iliad.
Hecuba is basically the emotional wreckage of empire in human form.
Aphrodite starts half the problems in Western civilization by being hot and petty.
Hera is running divine opposition research.
Thetis gets Zeus involved because Achilles is having a workplace dispute.
But apart from Helen, Athena, Penelope, Circe, Calypso, Cassandra, the Sirens, Nausicaa, Andromache, Hecuba, Aphrodite, Hera, and Thetis...
WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE CHARACTERS ATTENTION?
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It ain’t your papa’s Yale...or your grandpapa’s Yale...at least in the marshmallow major areas.
If she looked like the German woman who played Helen in the movie Troy, than she was worth a war.
Her lover on the other hand was a playboy pussy.
Without the 1000 ships launched we don’t end up with one of the great matches in history:
Achilles vs Hector
Lupita Nyong’o admitted she was completely unfamiliar with Homer’s The Odyssey before Christopher Nolan cast her as Helen of Detroit and Clytemnestra. She described her preparation as a “crash course,” immediately reading the epic and listening to The Iliad audiobook to prepare for the role.
Oh, Good Lord. I think I first read the Iliad in early high school.
Oh. “African Studies”.
Same here.... and again in literature in college.
Well, TBF, Lupita what’s-her-name is an attractive woman. But not suited to the role.
It should have been Sydney Sweeney, not some dusky Saharan princess.
You know a film is a stinker when the actors are desperate to drum up any news about it.
Outrage is still publicity
Free publicity
Lucky or brilliant
Free publicity
Lucky or brilliant
“..making her the first woman in recorded history to experience a meeting.“
God, I hate comments like this.
If the author really believes this, they need to get another job. Because I’ve never worked at a place where women were “dismissed” in any meeting.
Many years ago I read the Odyssey. While I am interested in seeing how modern effects could bring this story to life, I’m not interested in supporting this D.E.I. nonsense . Hollywood seemed to have a contract requiring gay characters so there was a lot of movies with them that I did not watch either.
I don't know if you have ever had the unpleasent task at a meeting of trying to introduce reality into their glorious vision but most of the time no one will listen to you.
Not until everything is falling apart and they look at you and say in bewilderment, "why didn't you warn us?"
Nothing to do with being a man or woman. Just the way it goes.
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