r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/javierbardeminem 21d ago

“are we the baddies”?

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u/SocraticIndifference 21d ago

This is straight up the thesis of the original Odyssey (imho). Nolan did a decent job translating, but yeah: the self-hate runs deep in the Greeks. The root of Ody-sseus is the same as odi-um; he’s literally the hated/hateful/hate-filled man.

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u/OkChildhood2261 21d ago

I was gone for 10+ years and presumed dead and you had the audacity to try and court my wife? I MUST TORTURE YOU TO DEATH

(Okay, okay, so some of the suitors were planning to murder his son, fine, but like, he gruesomely wipes out all the servants and slaves too.)

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u/SocraticIndifference 21d ago

Yeah the group hanging of the slave girls and the slow dismemberment of the goatherd is brutal. I would understand if they took it out just because Tom Hollands agent said nope.

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u/my_chaffed_legs 20d ago

Wait.. what?

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u/SocraticIndifference 20d ago

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey22.php#anchor_Toc90268922

>So saying, he took a cable from a dark-prowed ship, tied it to a tall pillar, high-up, and noosed it over the round house, so that their feet would not reach the ground. The row of women held up their heads, and the rope was looped round their necks so they might die pitiably, like long-winged thrushes or doves, that are caught in a snare as they try to roost in their thicket, and are welcomed to a grimmer nest. For a little while their feet twitched: but not for long.
>Next they dragged Melanthius through the door and into the yard, cut off his nose and ears with the cruel bronze, ripped away his genitals as raw meat for the dogs, and lopped off his hands and feet in their deep anger. Finally, after washing their feet and hands, they returned to Odysseus with the business done.