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Kurz nach dem Start von Christopher Nolans "Die Odyssee" hat unsere Kollegin Samantha Philips (Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde der @kieluni) im Studio Filmtheater Kiel Fragen rund um die antike Vorlage beantwortet – und dabei auch die Arbeitsweise, Erkenntnismöglichkeiten sowie Grenzen der Altphilologie erklärt.

Die Fragen und Antworten veröffentlichen wir jetzt nach und nach auf unserer Webseite.

Zum Beispiel: "Gab es Odysseus wirklich"?

Viel Spaß beim Entdecken!

https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/cluster-roots/forschung/schwerpunktthemen/knowledge-roots/jetzt-wirds-episch

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The Odyssey: Lots of Good Stuff, Some Bad Stuff as Well 🔱

What’s likely to be the biggest cinematic hit of 2026 is Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey. Anyone and everyone have already said their bit about the film, but we’ve decided to crop up with our opinions all the same!

At nearly three hours it’s a monstrous undertaking. Unquestionably a mighty cinematic experience in IMAX, it does also suffer from stumbling stuff that drags it down, but all of it adds up to a glorious time of it. We had fun.

Guilt and PTSD in The Odyssey

Right. You probably know the plot already as this is adapted from Homer’s ancient Greek poem of the same name. Christopher Nolan has taken various liberties with the text, but the thrust of the story is sort of the same.

Star, front and centre, is Odysseus (Matt Damon) the King of the island of Ithaca. He’s been away from home for 20 years as he’s been battling it out during the Trojan War of 12th century BC.

After winning in a thrilling, last ditch Trojan Horse war move thing, it’s now left to Odysseus and his men to finally head on home. His wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) tentatively awaits him, in his absence she’s barely able to hold off 100 suitors eager to take Odysseus’s throne.

But on the way back, Odysseus hits a series of relentless problems that escalate steadily into increasingly disastrous nightmares. As each episode plays out, the reality of the previous decade weighs heavily on his mind.

For Nolan’s Odyssey, it sees Odysseus become mired in an increasing sense of PTSD. The reality of war plays on his consience to the extent he questions whether he even wants to return home.

Hmmm! Well, there aren’t any official scenes available on YouTube yet, but you can get a great sense of the film with some sequences in the below.

Okay, the great stuff sits with the set pieces. The cyclops, the giant dudes in armoured plating, the Trojan Horse build-up and battle sequence, and Circe the witch are all goddamn outstanding.

It’s up to you which is best of the lot, but for us it’s the Trojan Horse stuff. Nolan at his absolute best and one of the best cinematic moments we’ve ever seen.

However, quite a chunk of The Odyssey is also a bit on the flat side of things. Some of the acting and casting are questionable (we’re looking at you Tom Holland), the script can be Mickey Mouse, plus there are big chunks of dull stuff. Mainly anything involving Tom Holland’s bland performance.

Plus, the super talented Mia Goth is in this film and she’s utterly wasted with almost no screen time or character development. As is the case for the excellent Robert Pattinson, whose Antinous is the main antagonist but 97% of the time is only ever in one room whilst grimacing.

It’s almost like Nolan should have spread this out into two films to properly develop out the story. To get everything into three hours was hellish ambitious of him and it often works, but for us this isn’t a 5/5.

It’s a very good film all the same. Highly recommended you see it in IMAX as this is the whole point. Take in the full cinematic spectacle, revel in the set pieces, and don’t get too upset about the story dwindling around a little bit. Well done to Mr. Nolan, he’s got people interested in history!

A Quick Note on Odyssey’s Soundtrack

Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson handled the music for Nolan’s latest film. The result is often very beautiful, he went to great lengths to use musical instruments that were around in antiquity.

This meant his team had to bring many of them back to life, re-inventing instruments that haven’t been around in thousands of years. That included an ancient lyre and aulos (a wind instrument). Hurling in Albanian iso-polyphony choral music over the top and it’s quite distinct as a soundtrack, although does lapse into bombast when it needs to.

Our favourite pieces? Sirens above is eerie and fabulous, then you’ve got the lush Ithaca theme below.

The sound effects in the film are frequently deafening, too. In IMAX, the scream from Polyphemus the cyclops registers in at 125 decibels. That’s the loudest scream in modern cinema and up there with Roger Daltrey’s big moment in The Who’s hit single Won’t Get Fooled Again (for reference).

Anyway, full credit to Ludwig Göransson as he does create some excellent moments with his score. Although, following Nolan’s lead, he’s often left to produce less intriguing pieces than the above.

The Production of The Odyssey

Okay, so this launched on 17th July 2026 and is still very much in cinemas. It’s just had its IMAX run extended into at least September as the tickets keep fully booking out. It’s really triggered a big response from the public, many of whom will experience the glory of IMAX for the first time.

It’s like being hit by a sledgehammer of cinematic spectacle and that’s why we love it.

The downside? It’s had a tedious backlash from the alt-right (headed by Elon Musk), who claim the film is whitewashing “history”. Their main beef is it’s “woke” as it was a trans actor in a small role and Helen of Troy is Lupita Nyong’o (i.e. not white). The hysterical meltdown they’ve had about it has done nothing to dent global box office figures. The film has already made $1.301 billion off its $250 million budget.

Go woke, go broke indeed…

As for the production cycle, following Nolan’s last film (2023’s Oppenheimer) he hadn’t worked out what to do next. Once decided, he went on to write the screenplay for The Odyssey and take on directing duties.

The shoot last for 91 days across February and August of 2025. He worked so effectively everything wrapped nine days ahead of schedule! Despite shoots taking place all over the shop, including locations such as Morocco, Western Sahara, Greece, Italy, Scotland, and the US.

Nolan is famous for embracing practical effects, so pretty much everything you see in the film most definitely isn’t CGI. That included building a 30ft cyclops for that scene, plus setting 5ft stunt actors against 7ft ones for others.

The Odyssey is almost certain to win a big bunch of Oscars. No way a film earning this much, and getting so much internal attention, isn’t going to win a load of them. Watch this space in 2027 then for the Academy Awards.

Hephaestus

Author’s Note: This post has mentions of (g)rape. If this is triggering, please go on to 1 of our other posts.

He’s the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, & volcanoes.

In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Hera, either on her own or her husband/brother, Zeus. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mom, Hera, because of his lameness, the result of a congenital impairment. Or, in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.

As a smithing god, Hephaestus created all the weapons of the gods on Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods & was worshipped in the manufacturing & industrial centers of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus’ symbols are a smith’s hammer, anvil, & a pair of tongs. In Rome, he was equated with Vulcan.

In Hesiod’s Theogony, Hera gives birth to Hephaestus on her own, out of revenge for Zeus having, without her, fathered Athena (the daughter of Zeus & Metis). Apollodorus similarly states that Hera gives birth to Hephaestus alone. Though according to Homer, Hephaestus is 1 of the kids of Zeus & Hera.

Some sources state that the origin myth of Hephaestus was that of a “daemon of fire coming up from the Earth,” that he was also associated with gas “which takes fire & burns & is considered by many people to be divine” & that only later was a volcano considered Hephaestus’ smithy.

He was associated by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) & Vulcanus of the Lipari islands.

The 1st-century sage, Apollonius of Tyana, is said to have observed, “there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, & yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants & gods like Hephaestus.” Nevertheless, Hephaestus’ domain over fire goes back to Homer’s Iliad, where he uses flames to dry the waters of the Scamander River in order to force its eponymous deity, who was attacking Achilles, to retreat.

His favorite place in our mere mortal world was the island of Lemnos. He liked to live among the Sintians. But he also repeatedly went to other volcanic islands like Lipari, Imbros, & Sicily, which were called his abodes/workshops. In 1 version of events, Hera rejects, then ejects Hephaestus from Olympus/the heavens because of his congenital impairment. (It’s implied that his congenital disability is because of Zeus & Hera’s familial relationship, i.e. brother & sister.)

Because of Hera’s actions, he fell into the ocean & of Hera’s actions, he fell into the ocean & was raised by Thetis (Achilles’ mom & 1 of the 50 Nereids) & Eurynome, the Oceanid. In another version, Hephaestus, attempting to rescue his mom from Zeus’ advances, was cast down to earth by Zeus, not Hera!

He (Hephaestus) was cast down for 1 whole day & landed on the island of Lemnos. On Lemnos, he was cared for & taught to be a master craftsman by the Sintians. Later writers describe his physical disability as a result of his 2nd fall. While Homer makes him disabled from birth.

Hephaestus was 1 of the Olympians who came back to Olympus after being exiled. In an archaic story, Hephaestus wanted revenge against Hera for rejecting him by forging her a magical golden throne, which, when she sat on it, didn’t let her stand up again.

The other gods begged Hephaestus to return to Olympus to let her go. But he refused, saying, “I’ve no mom.” It was Ares who undertook the task of fetching Hephaestus at 1st. But he was threatened by the fire god with torches. At last, Dionysus (the wine god) fetched him, got him drunk on wine, & took the subdued smith back to Olympus on the back of a mule, accompanied by revelers.

According to Hyginus, Zeus promised anything to Hephaestus to free Hera. Hephaestus asked for Athena’s hand in marriage (urged by Poseidon, who was hostile toward Athena), leading to his attempted (g)raping of the goddess, who rejected his advances.

In another version, he demanded to be married to Aphrodite to release Hera, & his mom fulfilled the request. Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with an anvil(s) & 20 bellows that worked at his bidding.

He crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, & almost any finely wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus. He designed all the thrones in the Olympian palace, the Aegis breastplate, Hermes’ (not the fashion house) winged helmet & sandals, Aphrodite’s famous girdle, Eros’ bow & arrows, Helios’ chariot, Heracles’ bronze clappers, & the shoulder of Pelops.

Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to mankind: the 1st woman, Pandora, & her pithos (a large jar)/box. In some versions, Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to man from Hephaestus’ forge. Hephaestus gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, & Arges, who were highly skilled blacksmiths in their own right & forged Zeus’ thunderbolts, Poseidon’s trident, & Hades’ helmet of darkness/invisibility.

According to Homer, Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him or others. This includes tripods with golden wheels, able to move at his wish in & out of the assembly hall of the celestials; & “handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids,” who had “understanding in their hearts, & speech & strength,” as a gift of the gods.

They moved to support Hephaestus while walking. Hephaestus also put golden & silver lions & dogs at the entrance of the palace of Alkinoos in such a way that they could bite the invaders. These guard dogs didn’t age or perish. (So does this mean that they could possibly still be around, hidden somewhere? Like the Nag Hammadi library.)

A similar golden dog was set by Rhea to guard the infant Zeus & his nurse (the goat Amaltheia) on the island of Krete/Crete. Later, Tantalus was said to have stolen the automaton when it guarded Zeus’ temple, or to have persuaded Pandareos to steal it for him.

Later texts attempt to replace the automaton with the idea that the golden dog was actually Rhea, transformed by Hephaestus. Hephaestus fought against the giants & killed Mimas by throwing molten iron at him. He also fought another giant, Aristaeus, but he fled.

During the battle, Hephaestus fell down exhausted & was picked up by Helios in his chariot. As a gift of gratitude, Hephaestus forged 4 ever-flowing fountains & fire-breathing bulls for Helios’ son Aeetus. At the marriage of Peleus & Thetis, Hephaestus gave a knife as a wedding present.

When the Trojan War began, Hephaestus sided with the Greeks & forged the armor of Achilles, the cuirass of Diomedes, & Agamemnon’s staff of office. But Hephaestus was also worshipped by the Trojans & saved 1 of their men from being killed by Diomedes.

Though she was married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus discovered Aphrodite’s affair through Helios, the all-seeing sun (We’re gonna circle back to this. Keep this in mind.), & planned a trap during 1 of their trysts.

While the lovers lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible & dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution. The gods had a good laugh at the sight of these unclothed adulterers. Poseidon persuaded Hephaestus to free them in return for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterers’ fine, or Poseidon would pay it himself.

In The Odyssey, Hephaestus says he would give Aphrodite back to Zeus & demand back his bride price. Some versions of the myth state that Zeus didn’t return the dowry. In fact, Aphrodite “simply charmed her way back again into her husband’s good graces.”

In The Iliad, Hephaestus is described as being married to the Grace named Charis during the events depicted in the Trojan War. While in Theogeny, he’s married to the Grace named Aglaea, with no indication of having ever been married to Aphrodite.

In Dionysiaca by Nonnus explicitly stated that, though Hephaestus & Aphrodite were once married (she’s referred to as his “ancient wife”). They’ve since separated & Hephaestus is now married to Charis.

Here’s the keep-in-mind part: In a later detail, Ares put the young soldier, Alectryon, by their door to warn them of Helios’ arrival, as he suspected that Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodite’s infidelity if the 2 were discovered. But Alectryon fell asleep on guard duty. Helios finds the 2 & alerts Hephaestus. Ares, in a rage, turned Alectryon into a rooster, which always crows at dawn when the sun is about to rise.

The Thebans said that the spicy time union of Ares & Aphrodite produced Harmonia. But that of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, there’s usually no issue. Because Harmonia was conceived during Aphrodite’s marriage to Hephaestus, for revenge, on Harmonia’s wedding day to Cadmus, Hephaestus gifted her with a finely worked but cursed necklace that brought immense suffering to her descendants, culminating in Oedipus. (Check out our post on Oedipus.)

An Athenian founding myth tells the city’s patron goddess, Athena, refused a union (spicy time) with Hephaestus. Pseudo-Apollodorus records an archaic legend, which claims that Hephaestus once tried to (g)rape Athena. But she pushed him away, causing him to ejaculate on her thigh.

Athena wiped the happy time juice off using a tuft of wool. She tossed it into the dust. This impregnated Gaia (his own great-grandma). This caused her to give birth to King Erichthonius, whom Athena adopted as her own kid.

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A quotation from Homer

                               O stranger, cease thy care;
Wise is the soul, but man is born to bear;
Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers, while the bad prevails.
Bear, with a soul resign’d, the will of Jove;
Who breathes, must mourn: thy woes are from above.
 
[‘ξεῖν᾽, ἐπεὶ οὔτε κακῷ οὔτ᾽ ἄφρονι φωτὶ ἔοικας:
Ζεὺς δ᾽ αὐτὸς νέμει ὄλβον Ὀλύμπιος ἀνθρώποισιν,
ἐσθλοῖς ἠδὲ κακοῖσιν, ὅπως ἐθέλῃσιν, ἑκάστῳ:
καί που σοὶ τάδ᾽ ἔδωκε, σὲ δὲ χρὴ τετλάμεν ἔμπης.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 6, l. 187ff (6.187-190) [Nausicaa] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Pope (1725), l. 227ff]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/11313/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #nausicaa #divinefavor #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinewill #endurance #fate #fortune #problemofevil #prosperity #suffering #problemofsuffering

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/14/the-guardian-view-on-booming-poetry-sales-homer-meet-the-instapoets
#poetry #homer #literature

Die Irrfahrt des Odysseus..

Digitaler Wochenrückblick, 16. August 2026

Es reizt nochmal richtig Kino zu erleben, also Film statt Digitalprojektion. Aber nicht irgendein Film und nicht irgendein Kino, es muss „Die Odyssee“ sein, der aktuelle Film des Christopher Nolan. Vollständig gedreht im 70mm IMAX-Format, Seitenverhältnis 1,43:1 und undigitalisiert ausschließlich in Prag, Brüssel und Montpellier zu sehen. Nur dort stehen die letzten echten Filmprojektoren, kein Wunder, diese Imaginatoren werden seit 50 Jahren nicht mehr gebaut.

„Die Odyssee“, ein gewaltiges Heldenepos, das Homer zugeschrieben wird. In 24 Gesängen werden die abenteuerlichen Irrfahrten des Odysseus beschrieben, es fehlt nichts, was ein wahres Kinoerlebnis ausmacht: Liebe, Saufgelage, Niedertracht, Krieg, Naturgewalten und sagenhafte grässliche Monster. Das alles eingepresst in 172 Minuten IMAX-Film. Gedreht an Originalschauplätzen rund um die Welt, durchweg mit bekannten Schauspielern besetzt. Geld spielte keine Rolle, denn dieses Werk klingelt nicht nur an den Kinokassen, sondern rauscht durch die verschiedenen Vertriebskanäle flüssig zurück, no risk. Nicht zuletzt wird der Wert durch die huldigenden Ankündigungen gesteigert:

„Das bildgewaltige Epos wurde mit brandneuer IMAX®-Technologie (hüstel…) an spektakulären Schauplätzen auf der ganzen Welt gedreht und ist der erste Spielfilm überhaupt, der vollständig mit IMAX-Kameras entstanden ist. Das Ergebnis ist ein Kinoerlebnis, das speziell für IMAX geschaffen wurde.“

„Das muss ich sehen“, sagt einer meiner Söhne, bucht für uns zwei Plätze in Brüssel (die haben die größte Leinwand!), in der Mitte, im vorderen Drittel – da entgeht uns nichts. Wunderbar!

Um zu verstehen, wie dieses Genre funktioniert, ist ein Blick in die Vergangenheit hilfreich, zum Beispiel in
„The Brain That Wouldn’t Die“ von 1962, exklusiv auf vole.wtf zu sehen. Bei Monstern und Horror kommt Nervenkitzel auf, die Enthauptung der Freundin lässt den Freund, einen ambitionierten Arzt, nicht ruhen, sondern experimentieren. Dieser Film brauchte kein großes Budget, die notwendigen Filmeffekte konnten durch eine praktische Regie und geschickt gesetzte Schnittfolgen vollständig umgangen werden. Absolut sehenswert (nur Mut)!

Ähnlich in „It Conquered The World“ (1956), hier bringt ein Wissenschaftler ein außerirdisches Monstrum von der Venus zu uns, es soll die Menschen von Gefühlen und Emotionen befreien. Der Plot endet meisterhaft in Tod und Verderbnis. Der dramatische Höhepunkt auf youtube . Dieses Werk regte Frank Zappa zu seinem Stück „Cheepnis“ an, in dem er offen gesteht „I love monster movies“ und wohlmeinend hinzufügt „I simply adore monster movies, and the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheepnis in the case of a monster movie has nothing to do with the budget of the film, although it helps.“

Letzteres war der Odyssee nicht beschieden, hätte ihm aber gefallen können! Die Kinoleinwand wurde zum Dauerspektakel degradiert. Aus den 24 Gesängen reihte sich ein dramaturgischer Höhepunkt an den nächsten, fulminant künstlerisch gekürzt und für das Kino angepasst, pausenlos – nur unterbrochen von Liebesbekundungen der Protagonisten. Das waren die einzigen Stellen, die nicht vom Bassgrummeln im Sessel getragen waren. Die dynamikreichen menschlichen Stimmen überzeugten die Produzenten nicht, sie komprimierten es auf ein deutlich erhöhtes Mittelmaß, alles gleich laut, ob laut oder leise.

Der monumentalen Größe dieses Filmes angemessen, unterlegten sie auch kleine Szenen in den Hallen wirkungsvoll mit der Geräuschkulisse eines vollbesetzten Fußballstadions, mehr geht nicht.

Dem nicht genug, wurde jede kleine Geste mit kraftvollen Geräuschen aufgewertet. Pferde, die am Strand durch nassen Sand liefen, erfreuten sich einer Soundkulisse wie bei einer Hubschrauberlandung. All das diente dazu, den Zuschauer von der Dramatik zu überzeugen, die da kommt. Und die kam, immer und immer wieder. Die Story von Homer steigerte sich im Film von Beginn an, wie ein Erdbeben und jagte den Höhepunkten der Irrfahrt des Odysseus unablässig hinterher. Von Höhepunkt zu Höhepunkt, bis zum Höhepunkt, als der Höhepunkt zu noch einem Höhepunkt wurde.

Der Film gipfelte in einem weiteren Höhepunkt, in dem Odysseus, verkleidet als Bettler, all seine dekadenten Widersacher im Kampfe niederringt. Vor meinem geistigen Auge sah ich diese Szene meisterlich inszeniert, eine der großen Leinwand angemessene lange ungeschnittene Szene, in der alle schauspielerische Leistung im Kampf erglüht, mein Auge im Bild von links nach rechts wandert, von oben nach unten, um nichts zu verpassen, und ich mich der Lust eines echten Kinoerlebnisses hingebe.

Zugunsten weiterer Verwertungswege konnte auf eine aufwendige Umsetzung auch dieses Höhepunktes verzichtet werden. Inszenierung und schauspielerische Leistung beschränken sich auf zusammenhanglose Sekundenschnipsel, die beliebig Blut spritzen lassen können. Rasend schnell geschnitten, auf einer Riesenleinwand regt es solide Schwindelgefühle an, viel besser ist es auf einem Smartphone oder kleinen Fernseher/Monitor zu sehen.

Zumal der Film so elegant hingewuchtet wurde, dass er oben wie unten problemlos beschnitten werden kann und unbedenklich im Format 16:9 irgendwie glänzt, ganz ohne IMAX.

Das war ganz großes Kino! Wie alles, was die Nordamerikaner mit Geld machen: Es wird noch viel größer und spielt noch mehr Geld ein.

Hat hier jemand gerade KI gesagt? Teufel aber auch…

Über Christian Wolf:

Christian Wolf (M.A.) ist Autor, Filmschaffender, Medienberater, ext. Datenschutzbeauftragter. Geisteswissenschaftliches Studium (Publizistik, Kulturanthropologie, Geografie), freie Tätigkeiten Fernsehen (RTL, WDR etc.) mit Abstechern in Krisengebiete, Bundestag Bonn und Berlin, Dozent DW Berlin (FS), Industriefilme (Würth, Aral u.v.m), wissenschaftliche und künstlerische Filmprojekte, Projekte zur Netzwerksicherheit, Cloudlösungen. Keine Internetpräsenz, ein Bug? Nein, Feature. (Digitalpurist/IT-Blasphemiker)

Uitgelezen (tijdens mijn vakantie in Frankrijk)/Finished (during my vacation in France):
Ilias/Iliad door/by Homerus/Homer
Herziene vertaling/revised translation 1993 door/by H.J. de Roy van Zuydewijn.
#homer #homerus #ilias #iliad #books #boeken

‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey
By Alfie Packham and Jane Clinton

Readers describe how Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has ignited or reawakened their interest in classical literature

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/14/the-odyssey-readers-homer-epic-poetry-classics-christopher-nolan-film

#TheOdyssey #Poetry #Homer #Books #Film #ChristopherNolan #Classics #Classicsandancienthistory #Culture #UKnews #TheGuardian #AlfiePackham #JaneClinton

The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets | Editorial
By Editorial

In an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/14/the-guardian-view-on-booming-poetry-sales-homer-meet-the-instapoets

#Poetry #Books #Homer #TheOdyssey #Culture #Film #MartinAmis #RobertBrowning #JohnMilton #EzraPound #RupiKaur #Socialmedia #PhilipLarkin #TheGuardian #Editorial

‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/14/the-odyssey-readers-homer-epic-poetry-classics-christopher-nolan-film #TheOdyssey #Poetry #Homer #Books #Film #ChristopherNolan #Classics #ClassicsAndAncientHistory #Culture #UkNews

Für den Blogbeitrag der Woche habe ich mein bildungsbürgerliches Alter Ego gechannelt und mich der Frage gewidmet, warum uns Homers Odyssee immer noch so beschäftigt:

Die Stürme der Seele: Odysseus und die Kunst, Kurs zu halten ⛵

Christopher Nolan hat Homers Odyssee ins Kino gebracht. Ein Stoff, dessen schriftliche Fassung rund 2700 Jahre alt ist, funktioniert 2026 noch immer als grosses kulturelles Ereignis. Die interessantere Frage ist allerdings eine andere. Warum beschäftigt uns eine Geschichte weiterhin, deren Welt von Göttern, Zyklopen, Sirenen und Zauberinnen bevölkert ist? Warum erscheint uns Odysseus trotz dieser gewaltigen historischen Distanz nicht völlig fremd? Eine mögliche Antwort findet sich bereits bei Seneca. Er verlegt die Irrfahrt ins Innere des Menschen.

👉 Fazit: Odysseus fasziniert uns nicht, weil er über allen Gefahren steht, sondern weil er sich verirrt, Fehler macht, Verluste erleidet und trotzdem immer wieder versucht, seinen Kurs neu zu bestimmen. Odysseus kommt nicht ohne Schiffbruch nach Ithaka. Er kommt nach Ithaka, obwohl er Schiffbruch erlitten hat.

https://epicmind.ch/die-stuerme-der-seele-odysseus-und-die-kunst-kurs-zu-halten

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#bookstodon

@kielkontrovers Vielen Dank für den Kommentar.
Gräzistin Dr. Samantha Philips schreibt dazu: "Wie die Ilias und die Odyssee entstanden sind, wird schon so lange diskutiert, dass die Forschungsfrage einen eigenen Namen bekommen hat: die Homerische Frage. Die Oral Poetry Forschung geht davon aus, dass der Mythos um Troja mündlich überliefert wurde, bevor Homer seine beiden Epen konzipierte. Die sogenannten Unitarier gehen davon aus, dass die Epen dann von einem einzigen Autor verfasst wurden, andere Thesen gehen von mehreren Texten aus, die zu einem Ganzen zusammengefügt wurden. So gesehen ist die Frage nach dem Original tatsächlich nicht einfach zu beantworten."

Sie wird auf unserer Fragen&Antworten-Seite zur Odyssee noch ausführlicher darauf eingehen. Wir fangen jetzt an, die Antworten aus der Veranstaltung im Kino zu veröffentlichen. Geht wegen der Semesterferien aber nicht so schnell:
https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/cluster-roots/forschung/schwerpunktthemen/knowledge-roots/jetzt-wirds-episch

Gern dranbleiben und bei Bedarf noch mal nachfragen.

#Odyssee #JetztWirdsEpisch #Homer #Altphilologie #ScienceComesToTown

Portraits of trees: Apple

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/08/11/portraits-of-trees-apple/

A quotation from Homer

And in return may the gods grant you your heart’s desire; may they give you a husband and a home, and the harmony that is so much to be desired, since there is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends, as they themselves know better than anyone.
 
[Σοὶ δὲ θεοὶ τόσα δοῖεν, ὅσα φρεσὶ σῇσι μενοινᾷς,
ἄνδρα τε καὶ οἶκον, καὶ ὁμοφροσύνην ὀπάσειαν
ἐσθλήν· οὐ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ γε κρεῖσσον καὶ ἄρειον,
ἢ ὅθ’ ὁμοφρονέοντε νοήμασιν οἶκον ἔχητον
ἀνὴρ ἠδὲ γυνή· πόλλ’ ἄλγεα δυσμενέεσσι,
χάρματα δ’ εὐμενέτῃσι· μάλιστα δέ τ’ ἔκλυον αὐτοί.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 6, l. 180ff (6.180) [Odysseus to Nausicaa] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Rieu (1946)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46493/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #odysseus #nausicaa #blessing #harmony #home #husband #marriage #meme #partner #spouse #together #unity #wife

Hero or hooligan: Odysseus on Phaeacia

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/08/10/hero-or-hooligan-odysseus-on-phaeacia/

Komplimente im Wandel der Zeiten...:
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"die rinderäugige #Hera"
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#Ilias #Homer

«Det finst knapt noko verk i verdslitteraturen som held klesvasken så høgt i ære som #Homer», skriv Solveig Aareskjold i Klassekampen, og då nemner ho ikkje ein gong Navsikaa, nett som Nolan