142
For real why did he make Agamemnon look like fucking batman. Gimme that silly ass armor
(hexbear.net)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
142 points (99.3% liked)
Main, home of the dope ass bear.
16112 readers
100 users here now
THE MAIN RULE: ALL TEXT POSTS MUST CONTAIN "MAIN" OR BE ENTIRELY IMAGES (INLINE OR EMOJI)
(Temporary moratorium on main rule to encourage more posting on main. We reserve the right to arbitrarily enforce it whenever we wish and the right to strike this line and enforce mainposting with zero notification to the users because its funny)
A hexbear.net commainity. Main sure to subscribe to other communities as well. Your feed will become the Lion's Main!
Good comrades mainly sort posts by hot and comments by new!
State-by-state guide on maintaining firearm ownership
Domain guide on mutual aid and foodbank resources
Tips for looking at financials of non-profits (How to donate amainly)
Community-sourced megapost on the main media sources to radicalize libs and chuds with
Main Source for Feminism for Babies
Maintaining OpSec / Data Spring Cleaning guide
Remain up to date on what time is it in Moscow
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I don't think it's a fair critique to criticize the film for not using period accurate Mycenaean armour given the Odyssey poet was not Mycenaean and the Ancient Greeks in their depictions of the Odyssey used classical era armour, not Mycenaean. That said, the armour does look boring as hell and if you're adapting an adventure story that even the Greeks thought was from an older time that was different enough from their own you might as well have some fun with the designs.
I mean at least have boar helmets which are attested to in the Epic and we have uncovered. Plus these are the most boring classical era armor as is. The people the epic is talking about would be closer to the Mycenaean if the war had happened. It is totally fair to expect that you use the armor that was found with the same helmet the epic mentions.
Yeah but my point is that the Greeks themselves, who venerated this story, didn't do that. Not bland though, unlike this snoozefest.
But the Greeks did mention the boar tusk helmet. It is in the version they venerated. Even in their retellings with the trappings of their day, elements were retained. We have the artifacts, we have the text.
So in this case they did do that. Which makes the blandness even more inexcusable.
Fuxk make it a swanky broadway jazz musical like how they did the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice in Hadestown, but at least make it interesting to look and listen at
i would not have any issue if this film was a period-staged version of the story--like Romeo + Juliet--but these pictures do not communicate any remotely consistent ancient period.
i've genuinely thought about this problem before and decided a rinascimento performance in all'antica would be the firmest/freshest historical base you could do, 16th century europeans adored "classics" and had a whole (well-documented) wardrobe with which to communicate it, while we have a very limited archaeological picture of the bronze age almost entirely limited to the haute-nobelesse.