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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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!
Lock them away into a safe space and lose the key.
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.
Derek Jacobi version?
“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.
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.
Anthony Heald. He does a ferocious Polyphemus, and a milksop Telemachus.
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.
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