Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years

anguo@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait. France is the land of the dead?

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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always was.

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  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    [Land of the dead](https://nourishingdeath.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/lower-brittany-the-land-of-the-dead/)

    [Empire of the deadl](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/empire-of-the-dead-1-63434391/)

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This guy was so bad at sailing, it’s astounding.

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  • anguo@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, he was a victim of the wrath of Poseidon, not that much you can do about that when at sea.

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    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which sort of paints Poseidon as incompetent. You’d imagine that the God of the sea would be able to reliably kill people at sea.

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      • Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sounds intentional to have Odysseus suffer and long for home, instead of killing him off quickly. The gods want to be entertained as well.

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      • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Zeus wouldn’t let him. Odysseus was fated to return home eventually.

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      • jrubal1462@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        599/600 isn’t a terrible performance.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, that’s a fair point.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seems to be decent at the sailing part. Navigation doesn’t seem to be even a minor part of his bailiwick

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sailing with no navigation skills is a risky endeavour, as he amply demonstrated.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No argument there. I’m very glad to have GPS whenever I’ve been on a boat, but if I absolutely had to, the BSA taught me to use a compass and astrolabe with a current chart.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like the good old “Didn’t took a right at the crossroads and continued forward instead and then kept on insisting ‘I know the way’” driving problem.

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• spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most of the bad stuff happened in Italy

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s… a creative attempt at the traveling salesman problem.

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