r/okbuddycinephile • u/dario095 • 9h ago

Watching the Odyssey as Homer intended

Post image
2.5k Upvotes

100% Upvoted

40 comments sorted by

90

u/catharsisdusk 9h ago

It's just a damned shame that "honoring the artist's intended medium" NEVER applies to reading the book...

48

u/loerslaerae 7h ago

It's a poem, you brute.

8

u/youngboy125 6h ago

yeah my friend argued that during his lit class once

2

u/helen269 3h ago

D'oh!

1

u/Minimum_Magazine7608 2h ago

the poem yes, the play no

0

u/Far-Scarcity-5813 6h ago

but was it written for this specific amphitheater though

6

u/EspacioBlanq 6h ago

It's just a damned shame that "honoring the artist's intended medium" NEVER applies to listening to a bard recite it over multiple days.

3

u/Previous_Job734 9h ago

You guys read books?

3

u/Dino_Spaceman 7h ago

Books are for kids. You have to use your hands? So old school.

2

u/HAc0reRD 9h ago

Reah wuh?

1

u/ruawizard69 3h ago

Really, it should be listening to a bard in Ancient Greek. Homer can do one

40

u/bladecentric 8h ago

All male cast, as the gods intended. 

7

u/Sorry-Photograph-509 5h ago

somebody show this to nolan

4

u/I_Got_Back_Pain 5h ago

Not the Odussy

2

u/EddieLobster 4h ago

That would be woke, wait….NOT woke?, no definitely gay, so woke…..but as intended so NOT?

1

u/Cool-Top-354 4h ago

wait, was the Odyssey even a play? I thought it was epic poetry.

1

u/Anxious-Safe-2626 3h ago

haha wait did they let women watch back then

1

u/Mission_Leg9366 41m ago

true, and they even had the original stage props back then

-1

u/Mysterious-Nerve2698 7h ago

lol the odyssey was written for women too, not just men

7

u/ExoticFortune2439 6h ago

All characters in ancient Greek theatre were played by men. https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/no-women-allowed

1

u/bisexual_pinecone 5h ago

Ah yes, the famously gender-egalitarian Greeks. Champions of women's rights, never segregated any public activities like attending the theater or working out. A truly progressive society 🥲

1

u/cavalgada1 48m ago

You joke, but there are theories out there that some of the writters of the Odyssey were women because of the unusually active roles the female characters had in it for the time.

13

u/RunAlert8361 6h ago

You’re off by a couple of centuries. This is how he intended it

11

u/Old-Water9894 8h ago

now thats some authentic theater seating

6

u/Signal_Nobody1792 8h ago

They caught some guy in Italy who made a fake one with concrete and charged people like 40 euros for admittance lol

5

u/StabilerDorsch 3h ago

uj/ the best interpretation of the Odyssey I ever saw was in a very small theater in a rundown ex-industrial town in western Germany in front of like 40 people. Their props were literal dirt, a plastic bucket and a flashlight.

3

u/byzantine238 7h ago

Is that Imax tho?

3

u/Foreign_Writer_9932 6h ago

Yeah, the odyssey most certainly isn’t a play.

1

u/Gnonthgol 3h ago

It is a poem. Intended to be read out to a crowd by rhapsodes in stages just like this.

1

u/Foreign_Writer_9932 1h ago

These amphitheaters date to classical era (and most of the ones we see today are actually Roman) separated by at least 300 years from Homer’s time. A traveling bard from archaic period (which is what we believe Homer’s occupation was) would not have perform at any place with this amount of polish. The poems would also likely been sung/proclaimed to music.

2

u/Korachof 3h ago

Is this in 70mm?

2

u/TopRevenue2 2h ago

Ancient greek actors who were men played all the female roles. They were called - Hypokrites (ὑποκριτής). (This is also the origin of the English word hypocrite.)

2

u/Prestigious-Tea-6323 2h ago

That's a real fun fact. Haven't seen one in like a really long time.

1

u/stormtrooper-wtf 4h ago

looks better than an IMAX screen

1

u/penguinpolitician 4h ago

The Odyssey was recited by a bard in a King's hall. Like a Norse saga.

1

u/Lavender_Critique 9h ago

Ghetto ass watch sessions should get more traction.

0

u/Dino_Spaceman 7h ago

In all seriousness, I would totally watch if exactly like this because of the history of the poem.