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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t even care about the Odyssey that much but I do think the Bronze Age was fucking fascinating. I know the classic canon of western civilization is overplayed, especially by a bunch of marble statue dipshits, but those boneheads think Fight Club is about starting a fight club. Fuck em. The Bronze Age shit slaps. Bunch of goat herders built a wall around a hill and some other group of dickheads with boats knocked it over. Then they tell some elaborate yarn about it for a thousand years. Hilarious stuff.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The lack of any kind of Sea Peoples sword and sandals epic is criminal.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Aeneid would go so, so hard. The panicked flight from burning troy as the Mycenaean sea peoples burn it, an amazing voyage through a world in collapse, panicked refugees streaming into Carthage since the Phoenicians are the last remaining civ that hasn't closed borders. and at the end, hope in Apulia, and a promise of Rome.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

The sequels write themselves as our heroes sail to another land and start brawls with the locals. They’re basically the Saiyans from Dragon Ball. Agamemnon was extremely Vegeta coded.