Iliad

I think Maybe because of the maybe the show is trying to capitalize on the popularity of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.

And so actually our opening emergency is going to be like an elaborate retelling of the Iliad.

And at the end, Buck at the end of the three episode arc, Buck gets his Achilles tendon like sliced by by his enemy.

And then he has to spend the rest of the season dealing with that and also like coming to terms with his wrath.

To accommodate him, ablutions are turned into penance, and sometimes the translator renders Arabic phrases by literal quotations from the scriptures.

Not content with this, Simeon Seth sometimes makes all the animals talk Homerically, and parodies in this way entire hexameters from the Iliad or the Odyssey.

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but I don't know increasingly increasingly it feels like when I see stuff like Clancy and the reaction to that case when I see stuff like I don't know so many things it just makes me feel like what are we doing here folks like we gotta we gotta turn it around you know and then I feel like We're just Cassandra screaming at everyone like, hey, don't open the horse, and people are not listening.

So, I mean, it's a direct quote from the Iliad.

Well, also, it explains a lot to me because sometimes on a weekend as we're driving through town, you'll often roll down the window and yell out to passerby, don't open the horse.

And I've wondered, I didn't want to ask because I don't want to, you know, poke the bear.

But it may also happen that a number of such literal records by different hands gradually resolve themselves, in the process of oral tradition, into a single story composed by a kind of spontaneous and unconscious selection of the incidents and situations which took most powerful hold of the successive reciters and their hearers; while the indifferent or tedious or repulsive things dropped out, or were quietly replaced by things of keener grip.

This final story—the story, say, of the Iliad or the Nibelungenlied—is clearly less historical, in the sense that it is a less faithful account of what actually happened, than the original matter-of-fact reports.

But it may be, in another sense, more historical, in so far as, in losing the impress of the actual events, it has taken on the impress of the mind and character of the people to which it was thus gradually accommodated.

Achilles, or Siegfried, or Beowulf, or Robin Hood, may be quite inadmissible to the pages of the scientific historian as actors in any definite historic events.

The same kind of sifting and elimination and concentration may go on, not in the passage of a story through a succession of minds, but in the working of a single mind upon its own experience.

If England is poor in poetry of inherited tradition, no nation is richer in literature of a large penetrating and genial observation.

If we have no Iliad and no Nibelungen, we have Chaucer.

If we have no Faust, we have a line of great portrayers of the national life, from Fielding to Meredith, not equalled in range and fidelity, if sometimes surpassed in brilliance of style and weight of meaning, by those of any other people.

To accommodate him, ablutions are turned into penance, and sometimes the translator renders Arabic phrases by literal quotations from the scriptures.

Not content with this, Simeon Seth sometimes makes all the animals talk Homerically, and parodies in this way entire hexameters from the Iliad or the Odyssey.

End of section 1.

Section 2 of the Fables of Bilpa This is a LibriVox recording.

To accommodate him, ablutions are turned into penance, and sometimes the translator renders Arabic phrases by literal quotations from the scriptures.

Not content with this, Simeon Seth sometimes makes all the animals talk Homerically, and parodies in this way entire hexameters from the Iliad or the Odyssey.

End of section 1.

Section 2 of the Fables of Bilpa This is a LibriVox recording.

Actually, I'm disappointed.

I've never read, you know, like what is it, Homer, the the Iliad? You

know, there's some stuff

out there.

To accommodate him, ablutions are turned into penance, and sometimes the translator renders Arabic phrases by literal quotations from the scriptures.

Not content with this, Simeon Seth sometimes makes all the animals talk homericly, and parodies in this way entire hexameters from the Iliad or the Odyssey.

End of section 1.

Section 2 of the Fables of Bilpa This is a LibriVox recording.

For in the perusal of this treatise you shall find another kind of taste, and a doctrine of a more profound and abstruse consideration, which will disclose unto you the most glorious sacraments and dreadful mysteries, as well in what concerneth your religion as matters of the public state and life economical.

Do you believe upon your conscience that Homer, while he was acouching his Iliads and Odysseys, had any thought upon those allegories which Plutarch, Heraclides, Ponticus, Eustathius, Cornutus squeezed out of him, and which Politian filched again from them? If you trust it, with neither hand nor foot do you come near to my opinion, which judgeth them to have been as little dreamed of by Homer as the gospel sacraments were by Ovid in his Metamorphoses.

Though a certain gully-gut friar, Frère Lubin Croque-Hardon, and true bacon-picker, would have undertaken to prove it, if perhaps he had met with as very fools as himself, and as the proverb says, a lid worthy of such a kettle.

If you give no credit thereto, why do not you the same in these jovial new chronicles of mine? Albeit when I did dictate them, I thought upon no more than you, who possibly were drinking the whilst, as I was.