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@allyearfootball.bsky.social

These morons are so tiresome. They all love the movie "Troy" for its beefcake Achilles - but I don't recall all these "historical accuracy" comments when Wolfgang Peterson turned Achilles male lover into his nephew. Nor lamenting the omission of Memnon, the black Ethiopian King who fought for Troy

FootballAllYear

Why do they talk about historical accuracy in a story with characters born from swan eggs, cyclops, sirens, mythical sea monsters??

Emily

@emilyyour8.bsky.social

Because they're racist morons who never actually read The Iliad or The Odyssey and probably couldn't read them if they tried. They think the Homeric epics are evidence that white people are better than non white people. Even though the greatest warrior in Troy wasn't Hector. It was Memnon.

solecito25.bsky.social

@solecito25.bsky.social

O Brother Where ART Thou remains the BEST film adaptation of Homer’s epic.

It's kind of hilarious that the right wing is all up in arms about the truth of certain characters. Hello in there: It's fiction Is it more possible that there were one-eyed giants and 6 headed monsters than a beautiful woman who was dark skinned? Shouldn't they all be speaking Greek?

@allyearfootball.bsky.social

Here is a fresco from Thera, 17th century BCE (circa 1650–1600 BCE) not too far from Troy, note the dark skin and black curly hair. Not too much of a stretch actually.

FootballAllYear

Ancient Greeks were slavers who bought people from slave traders, captured them in wars. Why wouldn't there be dark skinned people in classical Greece?

There were also African kingdoms and African traders who were not slaves.

Greece and Troy traded with Crete who traded with the Phoenicians who traded with everyone from Africa to present day Turkey, Syria, Lebanon etc.

marytetris.bsky.social

@marytetris.bsky.social

Haters gonna hate. Potatoes gonna potate. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Gordon McAlpin

@gmcalpin.bsky.social

can we start referring to right-wing backlashes as "pissbaby tantrums" instead? the only things they're lashing *back* at are their own sad little delusions

queensboy21.bsky.social

@queensboy21.bsky.social

The “online reactionaries” can crawl back under the rocks they came out from. 🤨🤨🤨

Evan M

@easymmack.bsky.social

lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

Interesting that Emily Wilson is quite critical of Nolan's script: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Gma Ginger

@gmagingerj.bsky.social

I so need to get a copy of her translation. I've heard nothing but good about it

hankp.bsky.social

@hankp.bsky.social