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

• anguo@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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      • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then why not sink his ship five minutes from his home?

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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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    True, that’s a fair point.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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