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Sep 9, 2026
Jase ShortGUEST
She's been tasked by the elders to weave her father's funeral shroud, and she keeps unweaving it at night so as to extend things.
Jase ShortGUEST
The first five books are called the Telemachy, They're mostly focused on Telemachus.
Jase ShortGUEST
And the beginning of the film does that.
Jase ShortGUEST
And in the manner in which I think there is a big change in the structure where in the film, we get Odysseus recounting his adventures after he left Troy.
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Jase ShortGUEST
And the presentation of Menelaus as a bastard, like he's typically presented as a sort of
Alexi the GreekHOST
kind of
Jase ShortGUEST
sad guy miss my wife you know we got it we got a better version of him a more real one but in particular that moment the whole thing with the Odyssey the beginning the Telemachy there's parallel to Telemachus is the homecoming of Agamemnon and He comes home and his wife kills him.
Jase ShortGUEST
And it's later stuff, but it's in the film.
Roland RamblerHOST
It has been ten long years since the conflict concluded, and Odysseus, the sovereign of Ithaca, is still struggling to cross the Mediterranean.
Roland RamblerHOST
Back in his magnificent kingdom, the first four chapters of the poem known as the Telemachy reveal his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus desperately attempting to maintain their household while fending off a localized insurgency of arrogant suitors vying for Penelope's hand.
Roland RamblerHOST
I made the significant tactical decision to pivot toward the armory displays, calculating that a sudden influx of ancient weaponry would suitably capture the attention of a restless juvenile companion.
Roland RamblerHOST
All around us, my son was inspecting bronze spearheads, blissfully unaware of the crushing burdens of property maintenance.
Rowan LiHOST
That brings us to the end of the first four books, which is often
Sid RobichaudHOST
referred to as the Telemachy because it is really focused on Telemachus' journey.
Rowan LiHOST
Book five, Zeus and Athena again discuss the fate of Odysseus.
Sid RobichaudHOST
Athena says, hello, we need to figure out what's going on with Odysseus.
NoahHOST
Yeah, I guess I've always thought about, yeah.
NoahHOST
I guess I never really thought about how this time works with the time of the Telemachy, or I kind of always thought that they...
NoahHOST
Like, sort of that this picks up or is contemporaneous with what's happening with Telemachus.
TristanHOST
Ah, well, you were not paying close attention to Albert Lord, where he points out that in epic oral storytelling, you don't have that kind of synchronicity.
Ptim CallanHOST
And Menelaus is late in his life, and he's narrating things that happened earlier.
Ptim CallanHOST
So as he starts to narrate things that happened earlier, he starts talking about the conversation he had with Telemachus At the beginning of the Odyssey, in the Telemachy books, the first six books of the Odyssey, when Telemachus goes to Menelaus to ask him about his father.
Ptim CallanHOST
And Menelaus, late Menelaus, now Menelaus, starts quoting what he said to Telemachus at that time.
Ptim CallanHOST
So now he's quoting himself.
Nilo OteroGUEST
It's different.
Nilo OteroGUEST
It's in the Telemachiad.
Nilo OteroGUEST
At a certain point, Telemachus gets fed up with, you know, Athena's insistent nudging.
Nilo OteroGUEST
And he uses a line which is very dear to my heart, which is, what man truly knows who his father is? And...