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If the announcer for a USC game openly roots for them, is a homer?
1 posted on 07/17/2026 2:06:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“The literary Trojans never had an odyssey.”

Wasn’t there a guy named Aeneas or something like that?


2 posted on 07/17/2026 2:11:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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“If the announcer for a USC game openly roots for them, is he a homer?”

That would be Pete Arbogast, homer with a capital “H”


3 posted on 07/17/2026 2:11:53 PM PDT by DAC21
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I’m seeing an odd mixture of reviews of the movie. It could be my own bias, but I get the feeling that reviewers who like the movie are really driven by their politics (though they don’t say that) and the reviewers who don’t like the movie just feel that they watched a movie that didn’t work well. I don’t plan to see it.


5 posted on 07/17/2026 2:15:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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LOL!

Given that the film has a Black African playing Helen, and a female pretending to be a male playing a Greek warrior, what worse can USC do?


7 posted on 07/17/2026 2:18:36 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Are they jumping on the bandwagon or into a dumpster fire?


9 posted on 07/17/2026 2:21:05 PM PDT by BipolarBob (If you hate God's Holy Law, you hate God. Both are love based and perfect.)
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"very limited survivors" - yes indeed, one of them being Andromache, Hector's wife. Who was enslaved. Their infant son Astayanax was thrown from the walls of Troy by Achilles' son Neoptolemus, her owner.

Strangely, this didn't make the movie.

20 posted on 07/17/2026 2:51:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Homer is the name of the operating system for the USC libraries (and I still have a card).


24 posted on 07/17/2026 3:32:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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I will be skipping this particular interpretation.


25 posted on 07/17/2026 3:49:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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‘Twould appear that no modern college has a functional non-STEM department. (And STEM is under attack. Soon 2+2 will equal 5 as 2 approaches 2.5)


26 posted on 07/17/2026 4:13:22 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Actually, the article author could do well to take a good Greek literature class himself.

The burning and destruction of Troy was foretold as a fate... in the Iliad—— but NOT reported there.
(Neither was it reported in the Odyssey — though there are four books of the Odyssey with partial recollections of the battle, etc.)

The actual fall and burning of Troy are detailed in the Epic Cycle, specifically a lost poem known as the Iliupersis (The Sack of Ilium), as well as in later works like Virgil’s Aeneid.


27 posted on 07/17/2026 4:14:27 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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I guess we’ll find out which group of semi-professional football players, masquerading as university students will beat the same type of football players from the other universities. How exciting.


30 posted on 07/17/2026 7:00:38 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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