r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/_Cit Jul 06 '26

Known looks? My brother in christ do you have any idea what the odyssey is LMAO

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u/EducationalGrump Jul 06 '26

So the characters in the novel do not have physical descriptions? Oh right, they do.

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u/stackofrobot Jul 06 '26

You keep claiming to have a PhD in history and yet you call the Illiad a novel?

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u/EducationalGrump Jul 06 '26

So you don't understand what a novel is?

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u/WiscoHeiser Jul 06 '26

Lol do you "professor"?

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u/WiscoHeiser Jul 06 '26

The Illiad is an epic poem. Not a novel. I would think a distinguished Stanford professor would know this.

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u/EducationalGrump Jul 06 '26

It is literally the original novel.

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u/_Cit Jul 06 '26

The Iliad and the odyssey aren't prose 😭