Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey" - Jill Dash

who else watched this because they want to reread the odyssey to enjoy Jorge Rivera-Herrans' "EPIC"?

Wouldn’t it be funny if he just said, “D’oh” at the end.

The Odyssey had a purpose

I know who's the vo

Can I know which graphic desinging tools you have used?

You only need to know that it had a purpose

there is an incredible musical based on the odyssey!
its still a wip, but i love it very much.
(its called epic the musical and it's being written by jorge herrans if you're interested)

ahh back before TED got really weird.

Exellent decision manager 🗣️🗣️

I had the chance and visited Homer's school on the island of Ithaki a few months ago. It was so peaceful and inspiring to walk amongst the ruins in which great minds shared knowledge. I can't wait to go back and spend more time.

BCE? Soooo Globalist you are with the insight of a Globalist. Can't see the forest for the trees. You didn't even touch the meaning of the Odyssey. I never found a teacher when I was in school who did. It wasn't until reading Joseph Campbell that I found someone who had a clue. I would tell you but it would be casting pearls before swine.

Alright who's here after listening to epic?✋️

“It helps to have some background before jumping in” tell that to my Freshman English teacher who assigned this immediately without explanation.

I no like dis my 2nd gwade teacha made me wearn about dis

so helpful 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀🤪

this is for my school

Don't be discourage by this video calling the Odyssey a "24-book epic"...while it is true that sometimes a chant would be called a "book" depending on the edition, and there are 24 chants in the Odyssey, it is not as massive as shown in the animation. Each chant can be read calmly in 1 to 2 hours tops and the whole book is a single tome, not 24 massive books

the odyssey had a purpose

Oooh I never caught that Odysseus was the constant guest, while Penelope was a constant hostess. Interesting.

This description missed the epicness of the tale and the mythological nature of the text. This video made it look like a childish exhibition of stories and completely missed the magnificent world in which it is set.

Great job! My students said that this video SLAYS!

I hate this class

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Why Telemachus referes to goddess Minerva as 'sir' in the book Homer?

The first Shonen ever written

Can someone explain to me please how to write in hexameter?

Ithaca is Athens Greece nowadays. While Troy is Tevfikiye, Çanakkale Merkez, Turkey.
Hope I'm right...

Dont mess with gods :)

this is like one piece but with an ending

Y'all should do The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain next

Sounds like the holy bible. Lots of holes.

The thing is that this story is of a anticlockwise global circumnavigation.
Trying to get back home which was actually in the Nile Delta...

They end up past Arabia, India etc and eventually through the straits of maggelan

Read and rearranged through multiple authors?

Reminds me of Marques de Sade’s attempt to write his last book in the asylum, all inpatients didn’t know to read and write, and the nurse knew how to, but her room was 5 cells across de Sade’s.

They then arranged for a way to convey the words to the nurse, de Sade would whisper a line into his mate’s ears through a hole in the wall, and his mate would whisper it to the guy on the next cell, and from there until the line would reach the nurse’s cell.

The result of which the line would be so mutilated. But hey! A deemed-insane writer’s words filtered through the brains of five maniacs with different mental illnesses? It’d make it nothing if not better!

I'm reading it in 4th grade, and it is AMAZING. By far one of the best books in my opinion. After I finish it, I'm reading Ulysses.

I wish it weren't so but every time I hear Homer the next thought/word that comes to mind is Simpson. It just won't go away......doh!!!

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I would love to see you give this treatment to 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time'. The way the book is written alone will make for some great visuals.

Am I the only one reading Odyssey not cause of school or anything but just for fun

Thank you! This was really helpful

Dang good timing

Actually Rhapsodes comes from the Greek verb rhapto which means to mend, so the oral poets are not the rhapsodes but Aedi, the rhapsodes were the ones who used to basically triscribed the oral poems

No depth at all

Never in my life have i been this fascinated by a narrator before!! Hope u r having a good day ma'am, you and your soothing voice ❤️

Wow, I appreciate all of the knowledge and research that you've done for us!

Which is the easiest English translation for odyssey ?

As I have just finished reading this work. My random thoughts, in the context of this video, are these:
*It is oft said, but barely half true to say that Odysseus' troubled path home was because he blinded the cyclops, Polyphemus. While it is true that Poseidon, his dad, raised storms a number of times, he only knew the name of the perpetrator, because Polyphemus told him. Odysseus initially told Polyphemus that his name was "Noman", but rashly and advised otherwise by his own men, blurted out his real name, after having escaped, just boast to, and taunt, the now very angry Polythemus. Were it not for that, Poseidon would not have known whom to assail. Mistake #1. Then only in the next chapter, Aeolus sends his ships by favorable wind, to within sight of Ithaca, by wrapping all the unfavorable winds in bags. But Odysseus men let them out of the bag at which they were all sent back off into the sea. Mistake #2. It is more correct to say that Odysseus own boastful arrogance caused his troubles, rather than the blinding of Polyphemus per se.

*"Xenia" may well have been contemporaneously considered a wise hedge against insulting gods in human form, but sometimes such tales are just grand stories of convenience, masking a more practical reason. In this case, consider that Greece is a large area with a vast number of islands and only partially connected city states. I think anyone can readily see that travelling around Greece, would have presented significant problems remaining fed and provisioned, especially when there was alot of sailing involved. I take the whole idea of Xenia as a pragmatic sense of mutual benefit dressed up with this story about not offending gods.


*while the story is highly entertaining (though the latter chapters do drag somewhat) if I ponder what is the overall purpose and message of the work, in the context of the time, I would say it is "Don't touch my stuff while I'm gone". Kings of city states leaving on military adventures seems was common enough, and absenting yourself and your armed followers, is an obvious risk of overthrow. What better way to terrorise those who remain into leaving the queen, the wealth, and the position of ruler, alone, other than by a/ enshrining in tradition that you are likely to turn up unexpectedly and kill them all, and b/ that the gods really won't be on their side? Most readers here will know Agamemnon's fate when he returned. All, up have concluded that to be the main theme and purpose: no matter how long I am gone, fear me and my return. I could even be 20 years....

*Lastly, my suggestion for reading it: *every time you read a reference to any other character from mythology, look them up. Easily done if you use a Kindle or Kindle app. That will ultimately furnish you with a good idea about greek mythology's most important stories. All the more if you read The Iliad first, as did I, and apply the same strategy.
*Before you start (alas, I did not), write a list of all the pantheon, including both their greek and latin names. The version I read used them both, randomly! Note particularly that Pallas, Minerva and Athena are the same goddess.