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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey hit with trigger warnings by university for ‘distressing’ content
The Telegraph via YahooNews ^ | December 29, 2024 | The Telegraph

Posted on 12/29/2024 5:06:08 PM PST by Robwin

Homer’s epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey have been hit with trigger warnings by a university for “distressing” content.

The University of Exeter has come under fire after telling undergraduates they may “encounter views and content that they may find uncomfortable” in their Greek mythology studies.

In what has been branded as a “parody” and “bonkers”, students enroled on the Women in Homer module are told material could be “challenging”.

With references to sexual violence, rape and infant mortality, undergraduates are also advised they should “feel free to deal with it in ways that help (eg to leave the classroom, contact Wellbeing, and of course talk to the lecturer)” if content is “causing distress”.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Poetry
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; epigraphyandlanguage; exeter; godsgravesglyphs; homer; iliad; odyssey; trojanwar; unitedkingdom; uofexeter
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Further evidence of how England has lost its way.
1 posted on 12/29/2024 5:06:08 PM PST by Robwin
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To: Robwin

The wuss-i-fication of the University of Exeter. Hopefully, it’s not contagious.


2 posted on 12/29/2024 5:09:07 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Robwin

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


3 posted on 12/29/2024 5:12:21 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Robwin

I’ve read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
It does not need a trigger warning.


4 posted on 12/29/2024 5:13:28 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Robwin

“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’.


5 posted on 12/29/2024 5:13:48 PM PST by BobL
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To: All

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.


6 posted on 12/29/2024 5:15:27 PM PST by BipolarBob (As it was in the days of Noah they were feasting, drinking egg nog and celebrating Christmas.)
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To: Robwin

the whole story is one huge journey, beset along the way, by the gods.

“What? DidjathinkitsgonnabeaGreyhoundbusride?”

‘the man’ angered the gods!


8 posted on 12/29/2024 5:15:58 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: wildcard_redneck

Lock them away into a safe space and lose the key.


9 posted on 12/29/2024 5:16:50 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Robwin

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.


10 posted on 12/29/2024 5:25:48 PM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..we)
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To: stanne
Yeah, the sex was gratuitous and unnecessary. If it has no part of the story it shouldn’t be there.
11 posted on 12/29/2024 5:30:55 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: heartwood

Derek Jacobi version?


12 posted on 12/29/2024 5:34:32 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: telescope115

“Yeah, the sex was gratuitous and unnecessary. If it has no part of the story it shouldn’t be there.”

Nolan is so good with stories. He studied literature. I was dismayed

Saw the Dylan movie. Too much of it still but no porn.


13 posted on 12/29/2024 5:37:38 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Robwin

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.


14 posted on 12/29/2024 5:43:50 PM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..we)
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To: wildcard_redneck
"Stop it or I'll bury you alive in a box!"


15 posted on 12/29/2024 5:51:37 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

16 posted on 12/29/2024 6:02:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Robwin

“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.


17 posted on 12/29/2024 6:06:21 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: stanne

Anthony Heald. He does a ferocious Polyphemus, and a milksop Telemachus.


18 posted on 12/29/2024 6:13:26 PM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..we)
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To: stanne
I didn't watch Oppenheimer because of the content. I was hopeful about the Nolan film until that thread about the main actors, two of them are black. Historical or ancient stories with DEI casting ruins the suspension of disbelief for me.
19 posted on 12/29/2024 6:19:37 PM PST by Varda
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To: Robwin

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.


20 posted on 12/29/2024 6:22:05 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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