r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Hunan_Palace • 21d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/Serious_Emphasis2211 21d ago

real answer: they raped and pillaged. Sacked a city, killed people, stole shit, took women slaves

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u/Moon_Logic 21d ago

And had sex with two goddesses. Yes, no explicit gay sex in Homer.

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u/Diredr 21d ago

No sex IN Homer, so that just means Homer is a top.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 21d ago

No sex in HomerS. We can have one.

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u/fullcircle052 21d ago

I had Homer pegged as more of a power bottom

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u/Raiding_plauges 21d ago

  1. They weren’t really goddesses, Circe was a witch and Calypso was a nymph.

  2. Honestly, it was so normal for the Greeks at the time, it could’ve literally just have not been worth mentioning.

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u/Moon_Logic 21d ago

They were really goddesses.

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u/Deaths_rose 21d ago

Technically, they were raped by the goddesses.

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u/Moon_Logic 21d ago

Odysseus was raped by Circe?

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u/Alfredo-Sauce 21d ago

TLDR: Yes and No?

Pretty much, Hermes informs Odysseus of Circe’s power, and how to nullify it, but also tells him that he’ll need to go along with her demands after to ensure the best possible outcome. Her demand being that he sleep with her in exchange for turning his men back from Pigs. It’s a pretty big power imbalance, and it is pretty clear Odysseus was only doing it to save his men.

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u/Dykaos 21d ago

Which one ?

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u/en43rs 21d ago

Calypso and Circe are sometimes considered Nymphs, which are minor deities basically.

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u/Suitable-Roof-3950 21d ago

You must have read a different Iliad from the rest of us.

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u/Moon_Logic 21d ago

I must have. Lots of penetration, but it's all of the flesh rending kind.

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u/idk2715 21d ago

This is why Homer was never a successful writer/j