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[–] 146 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Well, you know what they say about Greek soldiers. They never leave their brother's behind.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Bet they ran out of olive oil real fast

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    think musks "historically accurate" grok version will tell them?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Fun fact: Odysseus didn't need to be tied down to resist the sirens song, but he just was into bondage and roleplay.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    10 years were fighting a war, most definitely with some "spoils" of war

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Eventually, yes. But it took them 10 years just to breach the outer wall. They had to wait a decade before partaking in any spoils.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Armies travelled with large entourages which included soldiers wives, and plenty of whores for the single men.

    There’s also Odysseus’s stop on Ogygia where he was railing Calypso for seven years.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Consenting spoils I hope 🫣

    Or maybe some CNC stuff that'd be pretty hot actually.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    In the movie, I don't specifically remember them showing that (but might be mistaken, they certainly did loot Troy), but

    Minor spoiler if you careOne witch character curses his men and turns them into pigs because she believes they would have stolen from her and had their way with her. Odysseus very specifically uses the argument that they didn't do those things to her while convincing her to change them back. So take as you will. You could interpret this as Odysseus's men not being rapists. But I don't really remember the dialogue or flashbacks super well, I might be forgetting something. All that said, even if it didn't happen on screen, I don't really think there's a specific reason to believe they didn't do it off screen based on the overall tone and theme of the movie.

    (It's been a long time since I read the story, so it may have been different.)

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The Odyssey took 20 years but 10 was spent fighting at Troy where they’d have had camp followers, wives, whores and such.

    Then 7 of the next 10 years were on Ogygia where Odysseus at least was fucking Calypso.

    Three years is a long dry spell but probably unlikely to change the way you bat… for those who even survived very long.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    It’s not gay if you’re underway

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    woke is when you make the ancient greeks bisexual

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Don't worry, Odysseus kept his men real satisfied.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    In the scope of humanity, homophobia is a very new invention.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The conception of gender and sexuality is complicated depending on the culture. Not sure how true it is but apparently in ancient Rome, it's not considered gay if you are on top.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Hmmm I doubt it, the way it varies among cultures. It's not just Christianity and Islam that gets weird about it. From what I've read it's more about sex acts that are considered taboo, like a man laying with another man, and not about some modern idea of what homosexuality is. And I believe it can be argued sometimes that we don't know if these ancient laws are about a man raping a man rather than just men having sex with men. (And if there's no victim, who's reporting it? An observer or jealous spouse?)

    we're talking like 12th century BCE Assyria...

    https://urania.institute/en/posts/courses/mesopotamia/assyrian-laws/

    The way cultures can vary so much on what is taboo, is it that surprising that people make same sex relations taboo?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Sure, if you would get lost for ten years in the Aegean Sea, you'd have to cuddle the homies.

    But you wouldn't, so you don't.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Best friends meant something very different back then.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Greeks been doing it. Celts been doing it. Everybody been doing it!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    My buddy in the Navy always says: 100 sailors go out, 50 couples come back.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Man this meme is getting posted a lot.

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  • "I want to tell you something, but please bend over first"

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  • [+] -14 points 2 months ago (1 child)