Posted on 04/18/2026 3:41:32 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
T.V. Mini-Series "Odyssey" queued at the link-click to 1 minute 41 seconds.
The climactic Throne Room scene of Odysseus stringing the bow which only he could, shooting an arrow through numerous axe-rings, and slaughtering Penelope's unwanted suitors, is the central dramatic motif of all of Western Civilization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0_A9XWxV0Q&t=101s
Students of ancient Greek culture, not necessarily at English universities, but more commonly centered on Greek Orthodox Church parishes, study the Homeric epic poems as the foundation of Western Civilization. It was set up in the 8th century before Christ.
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The chief servant of Odysseus, Eumaeus, had to await his master first stringing the bow, to finally prove his identity, before ordering the closure from the outside of the throne room doors, before the slaughter of the vile suitors.
Author is Moronicus
“The climactic Throne Room scene of Odysseus stringing the bow which only he could, shooting an arrow through numerous axe-rings, and slaughtering Penelope’s unwanted suitors, is the central dramatic motif of all of Western Civilization.”
Is this TRUE?
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Author is Moronicus.
Homer.
I love the classics.
But this is a painful stretch.
painful stretch
The pain hasn’t even begun. Thanks, Boss!
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Once wily Odysseus had flexed the great bow and checked it all over, he strung it easily, as a man skilled in song and the lyre stretches a new string onto its leather tuning strap, fixing the twisted sheep-gut at either end. Then grasping the bow in his right hand, he plucked the string that sang sweetly to his touch with the sound of a swallow’s note. The Suitors were mortified, and their faces were drained of colour, while Zeus sounded a peal of thunder as a sign. Noble long-suffering Odysseus was pleased at this omen from the son of devious Cronos, and he picked up the feathered arrow that lay alone on the table next to him, while the others the Achaeans were destined to feel were still packed in their hollow quiver. He set it against the bridge of the bow, drew back the notched arrow with the string, and still seated in his chair let fly with a sure aim. The bronze-weighted shaft flew through the handle hole of every axe from first to last without fail, sped clean through and out at the end.
It’s a beautiful passage. But it doesn’t make me think that Iran is Odysseus.
Most beautiful baby delivery scene I’ve ever seen.
Seymour on Fakebook?
I don’t know that guy nor that place.
“But it doesn’t make me think that Iran is Odysseus.”
These days Iran has trouble going back to the early days of Mad Mo’.
beg to differ, passion week is the central drama of western civilization. If Helen launched a thousand ships, Christ launched thousands of thousands.
Iran is Nero
Thanks. Beautiful translation.
And by the way, referring to the video, he shot through a bunch of axe HEADs, the holes he shot the arrow through were where the axe handles go through the axe heads, not some dopey lanyard ring that axes don’t have.
“It’s a beautiful passage. But it doesn’t make me think that Iran is Odysseus.”
Where did that come from?
“Iran is Odysseus”
There is a translation problem.
Iran is a modern name, not a
name from mid 800 BC!
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