Quote: “Let my grandson be called Odysseus; that means: angry” (translated by V. Zhukovsky).
Main translations: V. A. Zhukovsky, V. V. Veresaev. Issues:
- wanderings and returning home;
- solving moral problems.
The meaning of the title: “The Odyssey” is a poem about the hero Odysseus.
Literary genre: epic poem.
Genre features: The Odyssey, like the Iliad, is written in hexameter.
Time and place of action: The action takes place in Troy, Egypt, Ithaca and the western Mediterranean. Time of action - the turn of the XIII-XII centuries. BC e.
Summary
The nymph Calypso forcibly holds Odysseus on the island. At this time, in Ithaca, crowds of suitors are wooing Odysseus's wife Penelope, considering Odysseus dead. To delay her marriage, Penelope says she will not marry until she finishes her needlework, and every night she dismisses her work. The goddess Athena tells Odysseus' son Telemachus to find his father. Telemachus learns that Odysseus is captured by Calypso.
The god Hermes comes to Calypso demanding the release of Odysseus. Odysseus almost died during a sea voyage (Poseidon is hostile to the hero) and ends up among the Phaeacians, where he meets the daughter of the king there, Nausicaa. In the palace of the king of the Phaeacians, Odysseus talks about his adventures.
Odysseus visited the country of lotophages, where special lotuses grow: if you try such a lotus, you will immediately forget your homeland. Then Odysseus and his comrades ended up with the cannibal Cyclops Polyphemus. Odysseus saved himself by cunning: he called himself Nikto, got Polyphemus drunk and blinded. When other Cyclops came running to ask who had treated Polyphemus so cruelly, he answered: “Nobody!”
The god of the winds, Aeolus, gave Odysseus a bag of winds, but one of the hero’s companions carelessly untied the bag, thereby prolonging their journey. Then Odysseus and his comrades landed on the island of the goddess Kirke (Circe), who turned all the men into pigs. Odysseus miraculously retained his appearance. He lived with Kirka for a year. Then the hero needed to find the seer Tiresias in the kingdom of the dead, and so Odysseus was able to see his late mother and dead friends.
Odysseus also has to sail past the sirens, who lure sailors with their enchanting voices, and they crash into the rocks, and also swim between two monsters - Scylla and Charybdis.
The king of the Phaeacians helps Odysseus swim home, but the goddess Athena turns the hero into a beggar shepherd. Odysseus meets with his son Telemachus at the swineherd Eumaeus. Odysseus arrives home. No one recognizes him, except for the old nanny Euryclea (she recognized him by the scar on her leg). Penelope's suitors mock the "beggar."
Meanwhile, Penelope changes the terms of her marriage: she will marry the one who shoots an arrow from Odysseus's bow so that the arrow passes through 12 rings. Odysseus volunteers, completes the task and kills the suitors. Penelope and Odysseus were reunited, and the souls of the suitors ended up in the underworld.
Odysseus
...See, Telemachus? This is Ithaca - your kingdom. Yes, see how beautiful it is? And it is yours. Look, look... On this day my heart was filled with pride. The incomparable Penelope and the gods gave me a son. But in that moment, the world we had built together changed forever. Terrible news was approaching my shores. Beloved Greece began a war with Troy, and I had to leave my homeland. I didn’t know if I could see my wife and son again... I am Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and this is the story of my wanderings... No! Leave him alone! Now the bow belongs to your son, my grandson... When he grows up, you will teach him to pull the bowstring... Mother,.. No! I see this is war... Eurybates! Gather the helmsmen and sailors! We are sailing to Troy! To Troy?! Gods help us! Athena, my goddess, you have always protected me, but today you are silent. Tell me, is it possible to avoid this war? Athena, answer me! Not a tear... Not a tear... He is as strong as you. He doesn't cry. Promise that you'll come back... I can't. Defeating Troy is not easy. I love you!.. Penelope, if I don’t come back... You will come back! If we are defeated... If I die on the way... Don't say that! Let me die in your heart. You can't live alone. For me, you will remain a wife forever, but if I do not return by the time when his beard grows, choose another husband, and transfer the kingdom to our son. Yes. Let him continue our work. Promise me... I love you... Odysseus! I won't die. Like this tree around which we built our world... I will wait... Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi In the film "Odyssey" And also Geraldine Chaplin, Jeroen Krabbe, Christopher Lee Antif! Play a farewell song! Irene Papas, Bernadette Peters, Michael Pollard, Eric Roberts, Isabella Rossellini and Vanessa Williams Set sail! Costume Designer - Charles Node Production Designer - Roger Hall Cinematographer - Sergei Kozlov Special Effects Director - Mike McGee Composer - Eduard Artemyev Editing - Michael Ellis The gods of the sea and heaven carried me to Troy. I was surrounded by warriors, but I was alone... Producer - Dyson Lawwell You are sick, Eurylochus! Lies are a contagious disease! Scriptwriters - Andrei Konchalovsky and Chris Solimin Director - Andrei Konchalovsky You left me, Athena, but it doesn’t matter - I will achieve everything myself! This is how you talk to your protector! Athena! Wine has clouded your mind, Odysseus. Do you drink because you're afraid of the future? I? I am not afraid of anything! Once I tease you, you get mad at me. Athena, on the day my son was born, you could have helped me dissuade Agamemnon! I am a goddess after all - I have many responsibilities. And don’t forget, those whom I choose can see me. By my will you will make this journey. I want you, valiant Odysseus, to defeat
Homer. Odyssey
Homer. Odyssey
(Translation from ancient Greek by V. Veresaev)
SONG ONE
Muse, tell me about that experienced man who wandered for a long time since he destroyed the sacred Troy, visited many people of the city and saw the customs, suffered a lot in spirit on the seas, worrying about the salvation of his life and the return of his faithful comrades to their homeland. Still, he could not save his comrades, no matter how hard he tried. They destroyed themselves by their own sacrilege: They ate, madmen, the cows of Helios Hyperionid. For this he deprived them of the day of returning home forever. 10 Muse! Tell us about this too, starting with where you want. All the others at that time, having escaped near death, were already at home, and had also escaped the war and the sea. Only him, who was heartbroken because of his wife and homeland, was kept by the Nymph-Queen Calypso, the goddess among goddesses, 15 in a deep grotto, wanting him to become her husband. But the years passed, and the year had already come when the Son of Laertes was appointed by the gods to return to his home. Also, however, even there, on Ithaca, he could not avoid many works, although he was among friends. Full of compassion 20 All the gods were towards him. Only Poseidon continuously persecuted Odysseus until he reached his own land. Poseidon was at that time in the distant country of the Ethiopians, who inhabited the extreme parts of the earth at both ends: Where Hyperion sets and where he rises in the morning. 25 There he received from them hecatombs of bulls and rams, There he enjoyed himself, sitting at a feast. All the other Gods were assembled in the palaces of Kronid the Father. The parent of husbands and gods addressed all of them with a speech; In the heart and in the memory of the lord was the blameless Aegisthus, 30 deprived of his life by Agamemnonides, by the glorious Orestes. Remembering him, Kronid turned to the immortals with the words: “It’s strange how people willingly blame the immortals for everything! Evil comes from us, they say, but is it not they who, despite fate, bring upon themselves through madness? 35 So did Aegisthus—didn’t he, contrary to fate, take Atrid’s husband as his wife, killing him when he returned to his homeland? He knew the impending death: we punished him severely, sending the sharp-sighted Argo-killer Hermes, so that he would not dare to kill either himself or take his wife as his wife. 40 Revenge for Atrid will come from Orestes when, having matured, He wishes to take possession of his country. This is what Hermes told him, wishing him well; but he could not convince his Heart. And Aegisthus paid for this.” The owl-eyed maiden Athena then said to Zeus: 45 “O our parent Kronid, the highest of all rulers! You said the truth - he fully deserved such a death. So let everyone who would do such a thing perish! But my heart breaks for King Odysseus: He suffers, hapless, misfortune, from his loved ones far away, on an island embraced by 50 Waves, in the place where the navel of the sea is found. An island covered with forests; the goddess lives on it, the Daughter of the scheming Atlas, who knows the abysses of the entire Sea and who has supervision over the pillars: Between the earth and the sky they stand, pushing them apart. 55 Embraced by grief, the unfortunate daughter of Atlas holds the unfortunate one, seducing him all the time with soft and insinuating speech, so that he forgets about his Ithaca. But, passionately wanting to see even the smoke rising from his native land, Odysseus thinks only about the death of one. Will his evil fate really not touch 60 Your dear heart, Olympian? Didn't he honor you with sacrifices on the Trojan plain Near the ships of the Argives? So why are you, Zeus, indignant? Answering her, Kronion, who gathers the clouds, said: “What kind of words flew out of your teeth! 65 How could I forget about the divine self of Odysseus, So outstanding in thought among mortals, so willingly offering Sacrifice to the gods, the lords of the wide sky? But Poseidon the landowner burns with unmeasurable anger towards him because the godlike Cyclops Polyphemus 70 was deprived of his Eyes - the Cyclops, whose strength was the greatest among the other Cyclopes; He was born from the nymph Thoosa, the Daughter of Forkin, the guardian of the incessantly rustling sea, who entered into a relationship with Poseidon the ruler in a deep cave, From that time on, the shaker of the earth Poseidon Odysseus 75 Does not kill, but drives him away from his dear homeland. Well, all of us who are here on Olympus today will think, How can he return home? Poseidon will cast aside his Wrath: he alone will not be able to argue with all the immortals and act autocratically against the will of the universal gods.” 80 Then the owl-eyed maiden Athena said to Zeus: “O our father Kronid, the highest of all rulers! If now it pleases the all-blessed gods that the many-wise Odysseus may return to his homeland, let us command Hermes the Argo-Slayer, the executor of your decisions, to the nymph 85 In beautifully woven braids, to the island of Ogygia, immediately rush and convey to her our inflexible decision, So that the many-stable Odysseus may be returned to his homeland . I will go to Ithaca, so that there I can instill more vigor in Odysseus’s son and put courage in his heart, 90 So that, having called a meeting of long-haired Achaeans, he expels all the suitors who kill in the house without counting a bunch of walking sheep and slow-moving horned bulls. After that, I will send him to Sparta and sandy Pylos, so that I can find out about my dear father and his return, 95 Also so that a good reputation about him will be established among people.” Having finished, she tied golden soles to her feet, Ambrosial, everywhere she was carried with the blows of the wind And over the boundless earth and over the water. She took into her hands a battle spear, sharpened with copper, - 100 Heavy, strong; Athena used it to beat the heroes, bringing upon themselves the wrath of the mighty father goddess. The goddess rushed stormily from the high peaks of Olympia, stood in the Ithacan country at the courtyard of Odysseus's house, Before the threshold of the gate, with her sharp spear in her palm, 105 Taking the form of a stranger, the Taphosian ruler Mentas. I found proud suitors there. In front of the door they delighted their souls, playing dice with zeal, Sitting on the skins of bulls they themselves had killed. In the hall, the messengers, together with the nimble servants of the house, 110 These poured wine into the craters, mixing with water, They, having washed the tables with a spongy sponge, moved them to the middle and laid meat on them in abundance. The first of all, Telemachus, the godlike one, noticed the goddess. With a sad heart, he sat silently with the suitors. 115 And he imagined how a mighty parent would appear, how he would disperse all the suitors to their homes, seize his power again and become the master of his possessions. In such thoughts, sitting with the suitors, he saw Athena. He quickly went to the door, ashamed in his soul that the Wanderer was forced to stand at the entrance for so long; and, hastily approaching, he took the stranger by the right hand, accepted his spear, raised his voice and addressed him with a winged speech: “Rejoice, stranger! Come in! We will treat you, and then, having had your fill of food, you will tell us what you need.” 125 So he said and went away. And behind him is Pallas Athena. After they entered the high house of Odysseus, he carried the Guest’s spear to a high column and placed it in the smooth spear storage, where there were still many copies of other Odysseus, mighty in spirit in misfortune. 130 Afterwards, he led the goddess to a beautifully patterned chair, covered her with cloth, sat her down, and pulled a bench under her feet. Nearby, he himself sat on a carved chair, at a distance from the suitors, so that the guest, sitting next to the arrogant ones, would not receive an aversion to food, aggravated by their noise, 135 Also, in order to secretly ask him about his distant father. Immediately a beautiful golden jug with wash water in a silver basin was placed in front of them by the maid for washing; After setting up the table it was smooth. The venerable housekeeper placed the bread in front of them, adding many 140 different dishes, willingly giving them from the reserves. Kravchiy placed them on dishes, raising them high, and placed various kinds of meat and golden goblets near them; The messenger approached them every now and then, pouring wine. The proud suitors noisily entered the hall from the courtyard 145 And sat down in order on armchairs and chairs; The Messengers came to them with water, and they washed their hands. The maids put the bread in their baskets to the top, The boys poured the drink into the craters to the very edge. They immediately extended their hands to the ready food. 150 After the desire for drink and food was quenched, the hearts of the suitors were kindled with a new desire: they wanted music, dancing - the most beautiful delight of any feast. The messenger handed over the beautiful cithara to the hands: In front of the suitors he had to sing against his will. 155 Themius raised the cithara and began a beautiful song. And then Telemachus turned to the owl-eyed Athena, bowing his head to her so that no one else could hear: “You will not be angry, my dear guest, at what I say? There’s only one thing on these people’s minds: cithara and songs. 160 No wonder: they squander other people's wealth here - A husband whose white bones, rotted somewhere, the rain wets on land or the fierce waves rock in the sea. If they saw that he had returned to Ithaca again, Everyone would wish they had better legs, 165 Rather than get rich, accumulating clothes and gold here. However, he was destroyed by evil fate, and there is no consolation for Us, although some people claim: He will still be. But no! The day of his return is already lost! Now tell me, without hiding anything from me: 170 Who are you? Parents who? What city are you from? And what ship did you come on, what route did the shipmen take you to visit us? Who are they? After all, I believe you didn’t get here on foot. Also, tell me this frankly, so that I know well: 175 Is this the first time you have come here, or have you been your father’s guest for a long time? In past years, many guests came to our house, because my parent communicated with people a lot.” This is how the owl-eyed maiden Athena answered him: “I will answer your questions with complete frankness: 180 My name is Ment; my father is Anchial, a wise man, and I am always glad to boast of this; and I myself, the ruler of the Oar-loving Taphosians, came in my ship with my people; I sail across the wine-red sea to foreigners for copper, to the distant city of Temesu, and I go with shiny iron. 185 I placed my ship under the wooded slope of Neyon, in the pier of Retre, far from the city, near a field. I proudly declare that Odysseus and I are long-time guests of each other. When you visit the hero Laertes, you can ask the old man about it. They say that he no longer goes to the city 190, but, enduring troubles, he lives far away in the field with an old maid who feeds and waters the Old Man, when, having wandered through the hills of the vineyard for a day, having exhausted his old limbs, he returns to the house. I am coming to you now: they said that he is already at home, your father. 195 Apparently, however, the gods are preventing him from returning. But God-like Odysseus did not perish on earth, believe me. Somewhere in the wide sea, on an island embraced by waves, He lingered alive and languishes under the power of fierce, wild people and cannot leave, no matter how much his soul strives. 200 But I undertake to predict - what opinion the gods have about this and how, I believe, everything will happen, although I am not a prophet at all and I don’t know how to tell fortunes from birds. He won't be separated from his dear homeland for long, even if iron chains held him. 205 He is experienced in tricks and will figure out how to get back. Now tell me, without hiding anything from me: Do I really see in you the son of Odysseus? You are terribly similar to him in your head and beautiful eyes. Often in the past we met with him before he set out on a campaign to Troy, where other best of the Argives sailed on steep-sided ships. Afterwards, neither I nor Odysseus met with me.” Answering her, the prudent son of Odysseus said: “I will answer your question, O our guest, quite frankly: 215 Mother says that I am the son of Odysseus, but I myself do not know. Can anyone know what father he was born from? I would be happy if I had a husband as my parent, who lived peacefully into old age in his possessions. But - among all earthly people the most unfortunate - 220 He is my father, since you wanted to know this from me.” The owl-eyed maiden Athena said to him again: “Apparently, it was the wish of the immortals that your family would not be without glory in the future, when Penelope gave birth to someone like you. Now tell me, without hiding anything from me: 225 What kind of lunch is here? What meeting? Why do you need it? Is there a wedding or a feast here? After all, it doesn’t happen as a team effort. It only seems that your guests are rioting uncontrollably in your house. Any reasonable man who looked here would feel shame, seeing their vile behavior.” 230 Again, then, the prudent Telemachus answered the guest: “Since you, O my guest, asked and wanted to know, then find out: This house was once full of wealth, it was respected by everyone at the time when that husband was still here. Now the hostile gods have made a different decision, 235 making it invisible to the eye among all men. I would have grieved less for him if he had died, if he had perished in the Trojan land among his comrades, or, having ended the war, died in the arms of his friends. If the All-Achaeans had built a burial mound over him, 240 he would have left his son great glory for all time. Now the Harpies took him ingloriously, and he left, forgotten by everyone, unknown, and left his son with only sadness and sobs. But it is not only for him that I cry; The gods sent me another cruel grief: 245 The first people in power, that here the islands inhabit Zam, and Dulichi, and Zakynthos, covered with dense forests, And our rocky Ithaca, stubbornly strive to force my Mother into marriage and rob our property. My mother does not want to enter into a hateful marriage and cannot 250 put an end to their claims, but they are ruining my House with feasts and will soon destroy me myself.” Pallas Athena answered him indignantly: “Woe! I see now how you need distant Odysseus to lay his hands on the shameless strangers. 255 If now, having returned, he stood in front of the door of the brownie with a pair of spears in his hand, with his strong shield and helmet, - As I first saw the hero at the time when he was having fun in our house at a feast, sitting at a cup, Coming to us from Ephyra from Ilus, Mermer's son: 260 Odysseus also visited there on his fast ship; He was looking for poison that would kill people so that he could smear it on his copper arrows. However, Il refused to give him poison: he was ashamed of the soul of the immortal gods. My father gave it to him because he loved him dearly. 265 If he appeared before the suitors in this form, they would become short-lived and very bitterly married! This, however, is hidden in the bosom of the almighty gods - He will avenge himself, whether or not, by returning back to his native home. And now I would suggest that you think 270 what to do to remove all the suitors from the palace. Listen to me and pay attention to what I say: Tomorrow, call the Achaean citizens to a meeting, openly tell them everything, and let the gods be your witnesses. Afterwards, demand that all the suitors go home; 275 But your mother, if her spirit wants to get married again, let her return to her powerful father, to her dear home; Let him equip the wedding, giving a large dowry, as much as his dear daughter should receive. As for you, perhaps you will carry out my reasonable advice: 280 Set off with the best ship with twenty oarsmen and find out about your missing father; It’s true that among mortals Someone will be able to tell you about him, or Rumor will tell you Zeus - she brings the most news to people. In Pylos you will find out earlier what the divine Nestor will say, 285 After that you will go to the fair-haired Menelaus to Sparta; He arrived home last of all the copperplate Achaeans. If you hear that your father is alive, that he will return home, wait for him for a year, patiently enduring oppression; If you hear that he is dead, that he is no longer in the world, 290 Then, having returned back to your father’s sweet land, You will build a grave hill in his honor, you will properly perform the funeral ceremony for him and you will give your mother in marriage. After you have done all this, you have finished all this, in your heart and in your mind think carefully about what 295 means to destroy all the suitors in your palaces, by cunning or openly. Living with childish trifles Time has passed for you, your age is no longer the same. Or do you not know what happened to the divine Orestes, what glory he gained by dealing with the treacherous Aegisthus, the 300 Patricide, who deprived his glorious father of his life? I see, my dear friend, that you are both great and beautiful, you are no weaker than him, you will also become famous in posterity; But it’s high time for me to return to my fast ship: My companions are waiting and are probably indignant at me in their hearts. 305 Take care of yourself and think about what I said.” Then again, the sensible Telemachus answered his guest: “Really, my guest, you speak to me with such love, Like a father; I will never forget your advice. But wait, although I see that you are in a hurry to get on the road. 310 Wash yourself with us first, please your dear heart. With a joyful spirit, you will then take to the ship a valuable, beautiful gift, which I will present to you as a souvenir, As happens between guests and hosts, pleasant to each other.” This is how the owl-eyed maiden Athena answered him: 315 “No, don’t detain me today, I’m in a hurry to get on the road. The gift that your dear heart prompts you to give to me, I, returning back, will accept and go home with it, Having received the gift dearly and given you the same.” The owl-eyed maiden Athena said and departed, 320 Like a swift-winged bird, she fluttered out the window. He was overcome by strength and courage. And more than before, he remembered his dear father. And, having thought in his heart, His soul trembled, realizing that he was talking with God. The godlike husband immediately headed back to the grooms. 325 A famous singer sang before them, and they sat, listening in silence. He sang about the sad return of the Achaean army from Troy, sent to them by Pallas Athena. In her upper chamber, her daughter, Penelope the Reasonable, heard the inspired singing of the Elder Icarius. Immediately 330 She descended the high stairs of the house from above, But not alone; Two maids came down with her. In the hall, entering the grooms, Penelope, the goddess among women, became near the jamb leading to the dining room, closing his cheeks with a brilliant veil, and next to her, on both sides, the maids became zealous. Crying, the singer inspired by so Penelope said: “Femiy, you know so many other songs delighting the soul that the singers glorify the gods and heroes. Sing of them, before sitting, one. And in Silence 340 guests will listen to her for wine. But interrupt the song begun; She grieves in her chest a sweet heart in her chest. The worst grief fell to me. My husband is depriving, I can’t forget about the deceased, who had so fulfilled his glory and Hellas and Argos. ” 345 Mother said the rational son of the Odysses: “My mother, that you prevent the singer from singing our pleasure, what does he burn in your soul? Not the singer is guilty of that - Zeus is guilty here, who is burdened by the working people to everyone in their souls, what they want. You can’t be annoyed, 350 times he wished, he wished the destiny of the ill -fated Danais. Most of all, people usually admire the song that seems to them the very new one. The spirit and heart is tame and make yourself listen. Not one Odyssey did not have to return home, 355 many others also did not return home from under Troy. Better return to yourself and go about your business-yarn, fabric; Ordinate, so that the maids of the maids immediately get down to business. Speaking is not a female affair, but my husband’s work, all more - mine; I have one lord. " 360 He said so. Amazed, Penelope went back. The son of a reasonable word deeply penetrated her soul. To go upstairs to her with maiden, she cried for a long time about the Odyssey, about her beloved wife, as long as a sweet dream was not covered by the goddess Athena. 365 And the grooms at this time were noisy in a shady blade; They all wanted to bring down with Penelope on the bed. With the speech of such a telemach, judicious to them turned to them: “O grooms of Penelope, arrogant, proud people! We will now feast, enjoy. Stop the noise! 370 is so nice and sweet to listen to the chants of the beautiful husband like this - by singing equal to God! Tomorrow morning we’ll get off the square, we will open the assembly, there I will openly say before the whole people will say that you will immediately cleanse my house. And with feasts, place differently: 375 your money eat on them, alternating with houses. If you find that for you it is more pleasant and it is better to destroy the wealth for free - eat! And I will call for support to the eternal gods. Perhaps the work of retaliation will be given to Kronion: 380 you will die here, and there will be no penalty for it! ” So he said. The grooms, biting their lips with frustration, were surprised at the bold words, who suddenly heard. Immediately, Antina turned to him, born Eugene: “The gods themselves, the gods, the telemons, teach you 385 so shamelessly boast of and talk in a brazenly. Zeus save us so that you become in the Waves of Itak with our king, by birth, already having the right to have it! ” And, objecting to him, the telemach sensitively said: “You don’t be angry with me, Antina, but I’ll tell you this: 390 If Zeus gave me it, of course I would have accepted. Or, in your opinion, there is nothing worse than this? To reign is not a bad matter; They soon accumulate in the house of the tsar’s wealth, and he himself is in honor of the people. But between the noble Achaeans in the Waves of Itak 395 there are a lot of others, young or old, to whom the power could cross, since the king Odysseus was gone. But at home I will be left the master of the house, like slaves, for me the Odyssey Tsar brought! ” Then Earomas began to say, born of Polyb: 400 “On the TVs, this is hidden in the bosom of the almighty gods, which of the Achaeans will be ours by the king on Itak. Nevertheless, what is here, then yours, and in your house you yourself are the master. It is unlikely that there is an inhabitant, someone who would dare to encroach on the property is inhabited. 405 But I would like to find out, my dear, about the current GOST: who is this guest and where? What kind of land is the land of the Fatherland, what kind of tribe is it and the tribe? Where he was born? With the news of you about the return of your father, he appeared or, for his own need, came here to Itak? 410 immediately disappeared, he did not expect to meet us here. He does not look like a artistic person on a artistic person. ” And, responding to him, the telemach sensitively said: “I have no hope for the return of my father, Eurmysha, I have no hope. I don’t believe Vesti, who come from somewhere, 415 I don’t want to blame the propagate, to which, calling different geduators into the house, my mother is running out endlessly. The traveler is this guest to my father, he is from Tafos, a cop, he calls himself Enhial rational son with pride, but he himself is the lord of funny Tafosians. ” 420 He said the telemach, although he knew that he was talking with God. Those, having started again with delightful stump and dance, were amused by them and waited, while the evening would come close. They were amusing so, fun. And the evening was on the black. Then we got up and went home to rest. 425 The son of Tsar Odysseus with a beautiful courtyard in his high sleep moved, a well -protected all around. Thinking in his heart about a lot, he went there for sleep. With a torch, in each hand, an euriclay, the daughter of a house luna born of Pencesenor, was in front of him. 430 Buy once Laerte made her with a young man with her shelter, having paid twenty bulls for her, and on a par with a home-made wife read her in the house, but in order not to bend his wife, he did not share his bed with her. She walked with a torch in each hand. Of the slaves, she loved 435 of all, she more than him and raised him since childhood. He opened the doors at the skillfully built bedroom, sat on the bed and, having removed the soft chiton through his head, threw his old woman in his hands with his old woman. She shook Hiton, skillfully folded 440 on the folds and hung it on a bell near a chisly bed. After that, the old woman came out quietly from the bedroom, pretending to be with a silver handle with a silver pen, pulling the bolt with a belt. The night on the bed, covered with a sheepskin soft, he reflected on the road in which Athena called.
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Is this really an epilogue? Let them remember the titans. People bloom and dry up like ears of corn in the fields, but these names will never die! Let them say: “He lived in the time of Hector.” Let them say: “He lived in the time of Achilles.” Tags: Troy // Odysseus // glory //
In a birch forest - to have fun, in a pine forest - to pray to God, in a spruce forest - to hang yourself out of boredom... Tags: Vasily Zvyagintsev // Odysseus leaves Ithaca // Andrey Novikov // sarcastic quotes // forest //
Sometimes in order to rule you have to obey. Tags: Troy // Odysseus // meaningful quotes // power // submission //
Because I decided: No matter how many lies there are, I will not sit down in life on someone else’s Procrustean sleigh. Tags: Konstantin Arbenin // Odysseus and Nausicaa // man, people // inevitability, rock, fate //
Dialectics teaches: every defeat is a step towards victory. Tags: Boris Akunin // Black City // Odysseus (Woodpecker/Ivantsov I.I.) // philosophy // Marxism //
Only the one who destroys his own gods can become a real hero. Tags: Konstantin Arbenin // Odysseus and Nausicaa // man, people // God // heroes //
If the means are unethical, then the ends are unworthy. Tags: Vasily Zvyagintsev // Odysseus leaves Ithaca // meaningful quotes // goal // means //
Die is cast. Along with all other property, when trying to cross the Rubicon back. Tags: Vasily Zvyagintsev // Odysseus leaves Ithaca // Dmitry Vorontsov // sarcastic quotes //
You have a sword... and I only wield the weapon that the gods gave me as a gift. Tags: Troy // Odysseus // weapon // sword //
Friends today are our enemies tomorrow. Tags: Sophocles // Ajax // Odysseus // friends, friendship //
Secret passages are needed when you don't love. Then you break in with force, sneak up from behind or go around. When you love, you just go. Towards; no secret. Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of nomos // love //
- Why Loser? - Because. Life is like that. In his youth, he accidentally killed his half-brother. Later he accidentally killed his father-in-law. He was slandered by a friend's wife, he suffered a lot!... he executed both his friend and his wife... - Poor guy. Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of Nomos // Odysseus // Athena // ironic quotes //
It has long been known: a lousy ally is worse than an enemy. Tags: Boris Akunin // Black City // Odysseus (Woodpecker/Ivantsov I.I.) // meaningful quotes // friends, friendship //
The epilogue is always more interesting than the prologue. Tags: Troy // Odysseus //
Let whatever is good in anyone be there. Family, and ancestors, and everything that we did not achieve ourselves, I will not call it my own. Tags: Publius Ovid Naso // Metamorphoses // Odysseus //
Amazing. As they say, those who died yesterday regret today. Tags: Vasily Zvyagintsev // Odysseus leaves Ithaca // Alexey Berestin // sarcastic quotes // regret //
People like us cannot be pushed to the wall: we can go into the sky. To leave without returning, without hope of at least shouting, turning over your shoulder: “I’ll be back!” - because if we return, it will not be us who return. Since childhood, seeing the unprecedented, I confused shadows with gods, only to one day find out in a murderous epiphany: they really are alike. Both never return. Never the same. Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of nomos // Odysseus // man, people // return //
Do not compare the past with the future, the entrance with the exit, the mortal with the eternal and the birth with the funeral feast - otherwise you will then be like Themis the Incorruptible, the daughter of Uranus, who voluntarily gave up bodily sight, receiving in return the impartiality of fate, for sighted judges are destined to be blinded by beauty and ugliness, prayer and anger, courage and cowardice; to the blind - never, and this is the difference between a judge and fate. Do not compare the past with the past, the entrance with the entrance, mortal with mortal and birth with birth - otherwise you will then be like Lynceus Afarid, the hero-seer, whose gaze easily penetrated through earth and stone, wood and bone, water and metal; only his own fate was dark for the sharp-eyed Lynceus, as the day of tomorrow is dark for the day of today, and death grinned, standing nearby. Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of nomos // life // inevitability, fate, fate //
The disease of any rotten government is that it pushes talented people to the margins. Tags: Boris Akunin // Black City // Odysseus (Woodpecker/Ivantsov I.I.) // meaningful quotes // man, people //
Alas, this is true. We could have come up with something more interesting. Tags: Vasily Zvyagintsev // Odysseus leaves Ithaca // Dmitry Vorontsov // ironic quotes // truth //
-...There must be only one hero, my boys. He is doomed by the Moira-Spinners to loneliness. He fights alone, wins alone, and dies alone. Then people remember the Hero - completely forgetting those who helped him, were nearby, fought and died shoulder to shoulder with him. This is the strength, but this is also the weakness of the hero. Alone. Wow and onto the wall; wow - and into Eternity. Bultikh! - circles in black water... Even if you gather a whole army of heroes, each of them will fight on their own. It won't be a real army; it will be a crowd of lone heroes Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of nomos // Alkim // heroes //
- Boys, you want to fight... like heroes. And heroes win battles, but not wars. Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of nomos // Alkim // man, people // heroes //
The first thing that people lose during social upheavals and cataclysms is impartiality and a sense of humor... Tags: Vasily Zvyagintsev // Odysseus leaves Ithaca // Dmitry Vorontsov // life quotes // sense of humor //
Do not compare the past with the entrance, the mortal with the funeral feast, the future with the eternal and the exit with birth - otherwise you will then be like Argus Golden Eyelashes, the star titan, whose innumerable views found fish scales in the waters of the Ocean and fluff in the vastness of the ether, but is already hidden under the Phrygian with a cap, a sickle made of adamant, is about to flash on the sly: from now on, to decorate the myriads of your eyes - the vain charm of peacock tails. Do not compare the past with a birth, the future with a funeral feast, do not compare the entrances open to mortals with the exits for the eternal - otherwise you will then be like the prophet Cassandra, who saw the approach of troubles and heard the rustle of their sorrowful wings; but people around Cassandra became blind, and it was in vain to appeal to the blind. Do not compare anything with anything - and then be like yourself, because you too will not be compared with anything. Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of nomos // life // inevitability, fate, fate // comparison //
The next day promised to be difficult: I would have to lie a lot, and I would have to do it naturally and convincingly. Tags: Vasily Zvyagintsev // Odysseus leaves Ithaca // Dmitry Vorontsov // sarcastic quotes // lies, deception //
It turns out that when your worst assumptions come true, your hopes come true - it's disturbing. Yesterday I thought: hope is the most tenacious creature in the world. Everyone will die, and she will wait to die last. Old sailors say: “A ship is anchored on one anchor, but life cannot survive on hope alone...” Tags: Henry Lion Oldie // Odysseus, son of Laertes. Man of nomos // Laertes the Gardener // hope //
This war will be remembered for centuries, just as its heroes will not be forgotten. Tags: Troy // Odysseus // war // memory // heroes //
The gods do not do for people what people should do for themselves. Tags: The Odyssey // Athena //
In my youth, I was not quick to speak and quick to act. But I became more experienced and realized: in the world, it is not actions that rule everything, but words. Tags: Sophocles // Philoctetes // Odysseus // words //
I'm ashamed! My stone heart broke and my blood dried up. Tags: The Odyssey // Anticlea // sad quotes // broken heart // blood //
I’ll come up with my own colors and paint good luck. I will make our fairy tale both life and the sky into the bargain. Tags: Elena Yesenina // Odysseus and Penelope //
Virgos have been complicating everything since time immemorial. Tags: Troy // Odysseus // women //
On this day my heart was filled with pride. The incomparable Penelope and the gods gave me a son. But in that same moment, the world that we built together changed forever. Terrible news was approaching my shores. Beloved Greece began a war with Troy. The most powerful of kings came to me: Agamemnon and Menelaus. Obeying the sacred oath, sealed with blood and duty to protect my land, I left my native island. I didn't know if I would be able to see my wife and son again. I am Odysseus, king of Ithaca. And this is the story of my wanderings. Tags: The Odyssey // Odysseus // pride // war // history //
It's a pity, a happy future is just a grin of Past insolence on the present. And in the end, he who sought greedily will perish, He who waited will find it mediocrely. Tags: Konstantin Arbenin // Odysseus and Nausicaa // inevitability, rock, fate //
