“Shouldn’t we honor the gods before we go back home?” “Nah, trust me bro, I’ll be fine”
" ‘Waterloo’ means a complete and utter defeat. The French Emperor Napoleon lost everything at the Battle of Waterloo."
“Why did he go there, if the town had such an unlucky name?”
I have to admit that that’s an expression I’ve only heard in US circles. As an expression in England, it, well, has no meaning. We kicked some guy’s arse and lost our best general.
Philomena cunk core
Odyssey roughly translates to “The story of Odysseus”, so yes, the name existed before Homer’s story. The semantic connection of odyssey and a long, dangerous and arduous journey came way after that.
You could say it was an odyssey for odyssey to get that meaning
Odyssey no longer feels like a word. Damn you, semantic saturation!
but before the book no one was named Odysseus ever
The Odyssey was part of the Epic Cycle, so Homer likely inherited the figure of Odysseus from those stories. Whether he made up the name or the name Odysseus was already established, we simply do not know. Much has been lost to time, sadly.
Wether or not Homer’s writings are part of the Epic Cycle is very much a matter of… strong opinions of historians. There’s good reasons to include them (They’re about the same thing) and not to (Written later, and not lost, like all the other ones, so it makes the discussions annoying). We only know about most of the epic cycle because people wrote about the poems and made summaries and cliffnotes.
cliffnotes
Many people don’t realize the original Cliff was a hunter-gather circa 9342 BCE who began taking notes on cave walls, then passed down this practice for millennia before it was adapted to parchment and ultimately became the notes we read today.
It’s Odysseyn’ time!
And then he Odyssed all over the place (for 10 years)
The movie adaptation made an oddyseon dollars, it’s more than the morbillion dollars Morbius made!
Odysseus was a minor character in the first book before he became the main protagonist of the sequel. So yes, Odysseus was there before the Odyssey.
So basically like Frasier
Exactly, those old episodes with Dr Crane working at Arkham Asylum really hit different once you know about his dark past
Ackshually, The Odyssey is said to have been written before The Iliad, making the latter the prequel of the former.
But since the name Odysseus was in use throughout Greece before the birth of Homer then yes indeed, Odysseus was there before The Odyssey.
I’m gonna write a new book call Travelling Adventurer, and my protagonist is gonna called Traveour Venture.
Trevelor A. Deventure
But his middle name is also Adventure.
You mean The Venture Bros?
You jest but the main character of Snow Crash is literally called Hiro Protagonist
With sidekick Yours Truly.
Honestly, this sounds like a Lucas Arts adventure protagonist.
John Odyssey from the hit series Odyssey
Inventor of the Odyssey, just like Sir Thomas Ladder
I’m sorry, it’s just hard to relive this… without Jarnathan here.
I don’t understand memes like this that seem to be made by and for people who can’t use Google to find basic information
Because the meme isn’t about the actual facts. It’s about the joke at the end. Which you clearly missed.
The joke only makes sense if you don’t have the actual facts or any desire to actually learn the
Okay Journathan
You can totally laugh at something you already know tho.
No thank you I need my jokes fresh
Not really how jokes work, but ok
Of course we can all google information. But it’s more fun to involve other people; especially if we find it funny.
Wait… Do you mean that social networks require interaction with other people?
And I don’t understand why people call social media posts “memes”
There, we must both be fun at parties
The world and society as we know it is, and has always been, just vibes. Absolutely nothing is real.
Clearly you haven’t used google recently…
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Exaggerating, but in the worst cases that’s about what you’ll see.
