You know what the best part about the book is? Those long descriptions of where a character was born, what their father did five years before they were born, how their homeland was formed... Only for them to get a spear through their skull in the first battle of the chapter.
@onkelaule40612 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the colour of their ship/horses.
@yorgo22552 жыл бұрын
This is perhaps the funniest part of the odyssey,all this fluff,all those histories and aspirations and dreams and then BOOM dead.
@DarkLordFromTheSecondAge2 жыл бұрын
@@yorgo2255 Homer was a comedic genius
@nowhereman60192 жыл бұрын
War is hell.
@merrittanimation77212 жыл бұрын
"This is Jeff, son of Bob. He was born in Arcadia and is 27. He liked long walks on the beach. Hector stabbed in the face. His father was very sad about that."
@In_Our_Timeline2 жыл бұрын
“They came back To widows, To fatherless children, To screams, to sobbing. The men came back As little clay jars Full of sharp cinders.” ― Aeschylus, The Oresteia
@nowhereman60192 жыл бұрын
War is hell.
@RandomPerson-cm2wg2 жыл бұрын
Metal.
@LordRavensong2 жыл бұрын
@@RandomPerson-cm2wg no, clay. Didn't you read the comment?
@Tytoalba7772 жыл бұрын
new Sabaton song incoming
@mikaelantonkurki2 жыл бұрын
I have read enough history to know that this DOES NOT apply to all wars universally.
@Silvershield882 жыл бұрын
I love how Achilles is basically curbstomping everyone nonchalantly even when completely disinterested during his emo phase until the gods literally had to turn Paris's aimbot on to deal with him
@bthsr71132 жыл бұрын
Now I have this image of Apollo smacking a switch upside Paris' head and flipping it.
@raptormage22092 жыл бұрын
Get good get Apollobox
@Greytheaverage Жыл бұрын
THE AIMBOT STOP IM CRYING LAUGHING
@poundlandbandit6124 Жыл бұрын
He was made invincible from birth through the river Styx, Hector is far cooler
@travisoliver6741 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, Achilles was such a Chad that he would have broken his fate of death and destroyed all of Troy singlehandedly, but then Zeus stopped him because Zeus is an asshole.
@talongreenlee77042 жыл бұрын
The fact that we still know Achilles’ name today means that the prophesy was kinda legit.
@LPVince942 жыл бұрын
Yeah but as much or even more people know Odysseus without said prophecy and without dying for it.
@hollyjones2482 жыл бұрын
@@LPVince94 more people know Achilles than they know Odysseus
@burntturkey99962 жыл бұрын
@@hollyjones248 Probably because of the common phrase "Achilles's heel"
@boardcertifiable Жыл бұрын
@@burntturkey9996 and the fact they named a tendon after him too.
@emiliosuarez2232 Жыл бұрын
We all know Achilles because of his downfall, but we get to know Odysseus too because he kinda was responsible for the downfall of Achilles lol
@masterxl972 жыл бұрын
Odysseus still just literally being Solid Snake because of one dumb joke Red made SEVEN YEARS ago is incredibly heartwarming to me.
@Jaybirderino2 жыл бұрын
Literally all of Odysseus' expressions made me burst out laughing, goddamn
@incognitoman36562 жыл бұрын
I wish I was OG enough to remember that legendary video! You gotta say the name somewhere… please and thank you… My guess is just one of the older videos called something like Iliad summarised?
@wyrmshard2 жыл бұрын
@@incognitoman3656 Correct, it is Classics Summarized: The Iliad
@Gameling852 жыл бұрын
@@incognitoman3656 pretty much. I think it’s on the Classics Summarized playlist
@So_Indecisive2 жыл бұрын
@@Jaybirderino same
@dylanelliston59082 жыл бұрын
Achilles being portrayed as an excitable kid who’s there to have fun and slowly descending into depression is actually genius
@Zappygunshot2 жыл бұрын
Probably why the idea has persisted for a cool ~3,200 years. Turns out, if people get bored for long enough, they'll eventually develop some really good dramatic story telling techniques to keep themselves entertained.
@mindstalk2 жыл бұрын
@@Zappygunshot On the other hand, boat list.
@Bewegungskrieg2 жыл бұрын
turns out that classical literature isn’t just some scam to make you racist
@aceofspades70912 жыл бұрын
And Odysseus being portrayed as solid snake
@dalantawilliams18672 жыл бұрын
Yea that's usually how serving in the military goes
@charleshockenbury3532 жыл бұрын
Drawing Nemesis, Goddess of Revenge, as a cute little fire angle waving at a baby is the funniest thing ever
@Micaerys2 жыл бұрын
Her last drawing of her was very similar, but with darker color and with messy hair, and I choose to believe that that was her not giving a single fuck about how to look when she punished Narcissus xD
@eyesofthecervino33662 жыл бұрын
2:01
@ChaoticRoses2 жыл бұрын
@@eyesofthecervino3366 Thank you!
@antoinerodier2 жыл бұрын
Well she can be your angle... or yuor Devil
@charleshockenbury3532 жыл бұрын
@@antoinerodier god dammit did I spell Angel wrong again? This keeps happening. I blame my degree in mathematics
@downsidebrian Жыл бұрын
Reading the bit in the Odyssey where Helen is impersonating the Achean's wives is honestly just painful. Odysseus has to literally hold people's mouths shut because they honestly think their wives are out there. Seriously, the entire Achean army has precisely three brain cells, and Odysseus spends the entire war juggling them.
@dragonfire72 Жыл бұрын
The average brain cell count in the Achean army is like 3. Most of them are held by Odysseus, some by Achilles and Patroclus, some by the average troops... And Agamemnon carries a negative amount.
@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69 Жыл бұрын
@@dragonfire72 Agamemnon is being hunted by the brain cell equivalent of the IRS for all the IQ debt he's accumulated just by existing.
@kiwibuddy5341 Жыл бұрын
@@dragonfire72Agamemnon kills the brain cells he's given or stolen and winds down the number if Odysseus isn't careful
@Meowdyzone Жыл бұрын
@@dragonfire72 Braincells Georg strikes again. The average Achaean has a healthy amount of braincells, but Agamemnon skews the statistics.
@lyogos2568 Жыл бұрын
They were at there for 10 years, cut them some slack dhdphdf
@sofig12372 жыл бұрын
Eris, the goddess of "It's getting too chummy around here", wakes up and chooses violence. I love how you chose to phrase that.
@erisgoddessofdiscord7612 жыл бұрын
It actually was. They don't know how to actually have *fun*
@jammo73702 жыл бұрын
The goddess of doing a little trolling
@professorbutters2 жыл бұрын
And started a minor religion.
@John_Weiss2 жыл бұрын
@@professorbutters Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia! Now, seeing as it's Friday, I must go commemorate the Great Snub by consuming a Hot Dog [without the bun, natch].
@WilliametcCook2 жыл бұрын
Now I see why Eris the dwarf planet was named how it was; its discovery is what got Pluto kicked off the planets list
@wyattfreihon40482 жыл бұрын
Gotta love that Odysseus is literally the ONLY dude in the war that actually has a brain and doesn’t just jump into death traps for the sake of honor
@anadaere68612 жыл бұрын
Favorite trio for the Trojan war has to be Diomedes, Odysseus and Hector Ody because big brains. Diomedes because he's Achilles without some serious plot armor, and Hector because underdogs are cool
@the_exodusrex33852 жыл бұрын
What is the painting at the 13 minute mark?
@thisisanickname2312 жыл бұрын
He's the kind of character that are so badass it makes you think anyone around their ballpark is just as badass. First time hearing about Laocoon was in this video, and just the fact he actually saw throught the troyan horse and needed divine intervention to keep him from digging deeper makes me think he's Odysseus' equal in terms of using the head above to think. I doubt he was even that cool, is just Odysseus puts him there by being even a little close to him in smarts. The Odyseuss = Solid Snake comparison is truly fitting, very much a master of trickery.
@DefinitelyNotCursedPen2 жыл бұрын
He's no idiot, it's kind of his whole thing
@tuononnovainbici2 жыл бұрын
@@thisisanickname231 I already knew Laocoon because it was taught to me in school, but particularly because Michelangelo made a statue about him and his sons being attacked / devoured by the snakes! Look it up, it's tragic but SO well sculpted. It's kept in Italy in a museum and there's a replica in one of the biggest squares in Florence.
@Kemirii_png2 жыл бұрын
The nostalgia of seeing Red draw the ol bois of the Illiad in her current art style is honestly the best dose of seratonin I'll get in a while. Thank you Troy for being such a bad movie :D
@shekharpatait12032 жыл бұрын
Don't you mean dopamine?
@Satepin2 жыл бұрын
@@shekharpatait1203 there's more than one good brain chemical
@Elegiast2 жыл бұрын
Agreed! They look great, especially Odysseus.
@VitaNewbo2 жыл бұрын
Only true fans can remember Troy being so bad Red drew it all instead. And true fans are so grateful that whoever made Troy didn’t follow the plot at all.
@VitaNewbo2 жыл бұрын
Also Odysseus looks So cool in the updated style.
@chaseweber68232 жыл бұрын
13:18 On that thought, I love the fact that the epic cycle more or less starts properly with a king being beset by a million suitors, so Odysseus proposes a solution that will peacefully solve the problem with minimal bloodshed while ensuring he also walks away with some compensation, then ends with Penelope being beset by a million suitors so Odysseus's solution is to murder them all. That's how clever Odysseus is; he's able to learn from his mistakes.
@bthsr71132 жыл бұрын
Well she was already spoken for in that instance and they'd been throwing a years long frat party in his house.
@TrinityCore60 Жыл бұрын
…were people seriously that stupid back then? Learning from mistakes should be basic human behavior.
@Palora01 Жыл бұрын
@@TrinityCore60 people don't do that now, why would they do that back then?
@TrinityCore60 Жыл бұрын
@@Palora01 you know what, fair point. I guess I at least be thankful that people nowadays have modern science and general understanding of the world to foster a degree of common sense. For most people, at least.
@andredunbar3773 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I just think he was tired of all the bs getting in the way of him being with his wife, but this is a lot funnier
@bottled.bluebells72362 жыл бұрын
I love how Red's shifted Odysseus' design so that he looks perpetually exhausted/dead inside on top of the solid snake thing. Seems like a fair choice for the guy stuck with the one braincell in the midst of all this rampant shenaniganery.
@bdletoast092 жыл бұрын
It's so funny to me that Odysseus' characterization across the centuries remained "The only one with a functioning brain" and that he suffered massively for it.
@xShadowChrisx3 ай бұрын
@@bdletoast09 being a genius is often painful and isolating after all...
@MrKennybass2 жыл бұрын
Can we all take a minute to appreciate how far Red's style, in both her art and commentary, has come since her original Trojan War videos?
@Doggo7612 жыл бұрын
Yes. Yes we can.
@Lionstar162 жыл бұрын
We're all so proud of our girl Red :)
@Canadamus_Prime2 жыл бұрын
Yes. And I loved her original video too.
@omarsalem12192 жыл бұрын
Yes
@charles-benoitfrin64532 жыл бұрын
@@Canadamus_Prime i didn’t, she didn’t even mention the wrath of Achilles, which the entire point of the poem. This one is much better:)
@loyaultemelie79092 жыл бұрын
“I feel bad for him but, I don’t” Honestly probably the most accurate way to describe Paris ever
@george24592 жыл бұрын
was just about to type this comment before realising that the vid is 2 weeks old someone else had *definitely* already done it!
@guillermofy2 жыл бұрын
Had this moment with Jason when I watched medea's story by Red.
@Voltar_992 жыл бұрын
@@george2459 happens all the time, doesn’t matter
@nyxie28772 жыл бұрын
@@guillermofy No one feels bad for Jason, though
@Voltar_992 жыл бұрын
@@nyxie2877 yep
@Verbose_Mode2 жыл бұрын
The frame of Hera fuming "now we kill hin, right?" and big-brain Athena's deadpan "we can be MUCH more creative than that" kills me.
@someguy1747 Жыл бұрын
Not as much as it killed ALL of Troy.
@elisexv1495 Жыл бұрын
@@someguy1747 I was about to say 😂😂
@KaiHung-wv3ul9 ай бұрын
"Why kill one guy when we kill an entire city instead, MHAHAHAHAHAA!" -Average Olympian god
@chessknowledge51507 ай бұрын
CAn you pls tell me why did they say it was Odysseus fault at the end?
@IbizaToniTL7 ай бұрын
@@chessknowledge5150it was odysseus idea to do the pact of all suitors to defend Helen’s marriage. Therefore, he ensured basically all of the polis would be bound to go to the war, as if it had happened without the pact only Sparta would have gone to war against Troy
@Kailerification2 жыл бұрын
There is one part where Ares tries to stay neutral in the war, I like to imagine him seeing his mom and big sister arguing with his baby mama, and him just going "nope"
@basilii54462 жыл бұрын
He probably is staying neutral so that he wont get his ass kicked by said mom, big sister, and baby mama.
@riverstyx72512 жыл бұрын
Also him butting in would mean he is helping settle a debate of who is prettier, his mom, sister, or baby mama/girlfriend. And no one smart enough would ever go near that
@thalmoragent93442 жыл бұрын
@@riverstyx7251 Well, I mean, I'd have to say my baby mama in this case. Sister's are siblings and your mom is, well, your mom. But your baby mama is your partner so, I'd go for that
@thalmoragent93442 жыл бұрын
Wait, so Athena is older than Ares? Actually wait, yeah cause Zeus was married to Metis before Hera, right?
@origamipein182 жыл бұрын
Oh, and he lost his children during the Trojan War.
@SonicGirlsGeek2 жыл бұрын
Knowing Odysseus asked Menelaus to set him up with Penelope and later not wanting to go to war because he loves being a family man is the sweetest and further cements him as my favorite Greek Hero
@BoostedMonkey052 жыл бұрын
Tendarius*
@arvinroidoatienza70822 жыл бұрын
And then you read this sequel in which his son by Circe accidentally kills him and marries Penelope.
@crawlingboy2 жыл бұрын
@@arvinroidoatienza7082 yeah that is not canon and not written by homer so nah, he gets the happy ending and deserves it for being decades away from his family i am gonna be honest that weird like sequel sounds way to edgy to even be good writing
@arvinroidoatienza70822 жыл бұрын
@@crawlingboy Yeah me too. I mean, I loved the Odyssey and Ulysses as a character and he suffered a lot already. And then I learned about that try hard sequel and said nah, it's not canon. And the fact that his apparently illegitimate son marries his wife yuck
@crawlingboy2 жыл бұрын
@@arvinroidoatienza7082 yes it just is bad Especially the Penelope part Like the woman waited 20 years for her husband and loved him and you are telling me some illegitimate bastard kills him and steals her That is just edgy for the sake of edgy
@cynthesizer_2 жыл бұрын
I love the small details on Eris’ bedside table. The copy of Paradise Lost and the selfie of her and Loki are *perfection*
@h0m3st4r2 жыл бұрын
Eris and Loki would totally get along.
@maybeitsgabriel30352 жыл бұрын
3:43 for anyone who wants to see
@Jay_Vee12 жыл бұрын
I can already picture them going out for coffee to spill the tea from their pantheons to eachother.
@gabriellaburke69152 жыл бұрын
Lmao I have no idea how you guys can tell that's Eris and Loki, but I'll take your word for it
@kgmotte23632 жыл бұрын
Lol, How the Hell did you even Recognize that?! The Picture frame is so Tiny! But I Funny Endorse the Idea that those two would be BFFs!
@eleavate2 жыл бұрын
Odysseus being simultaneously the smartest character in the Trojan war AND the one who caused it all initially is some dramatic irony
@enigmatic31946 ай бұрын
@DogseatDogs good point. Even if someone thought that "If there's someone who's not bounded by the oath steals the most beautiful woman that's not a whiny goddess, they'd probably do it. But then again... if they knew about her, why weren't they an initial suitor in the first place?" Actually, I blame neither Odysseus (slightly for him because I think it's kinda funny) nor Paris (also slightly because bruh). I mostly blame Aphrodite for this crap.
@AstralDragn5 ай бұрын
I'm very late but I always find it strange that he was in the deal about defending the marriage- Like apparently he already had his eyes on Penelope. Although I suppose there 'had' to be a reason for him to be there at the time.
@raymondfisheriii7913 ай бұрын
@@AstralDragnI think the reason he was a suitor was because all the other kings were. Remember, marrying Helen was essentially for the status, the bragging rights of saying you literally have the most beautiful wife in the world (who’s not a goddess). So it was a situation where even if he didn’t want to marry her because he didn’t like her, as a king in the making, having her as a wife would look really good. But since he didn’t care too much about focusing on that status, he decided to make an opportunity out of it. I honestly like the idea that he straight up came up with the plan to use the marriage thing as a way to meet with the king and gain his favor from the get-go. Like he didn’t really care about marrying Helen and just wanted the excuse to talk to her dad into helping him marry this other lady he really likes instead.
@Rinasoir2 жыл бұрын
I love that Odysseus being dressed as Solid Snake is just a thing now in OSP. If you want a new pin idea, him in and out of a wooden crate are something I would buy in a heartbeat.
@cynthesizer_2 жыл бұрын
ABSOLUTELY WOULD BUY
@legateelizabeth2 жыл бұрын
It’s never not been a thing. The very first drawn summary was The Illiad, which featured Solid Snake Odysseus.
@unfoldingspace82 жыл бұрын
OSP Odysseus Snake Plissken
@librarianseth55722 жыл бұрын
I'd try an urn, but then the Ares one might be easily confused
@OddHunter55042 жыл бұрын
We need two types Solid “baby faced” snake Odysseus Big Boss”bearded” Naked Snake Odysseus
@noahthompson34512 жыл бұрын
I know this isn't intentional, but I like the idea that Aphrodite promises Hellen of Troy because of her previous status as a war goddess, and she knew it would start a big conflict.
@spaceoil42592 жыл бұрын
Ares: “So bae, what have you been up to lately?” Aphrodite: “Just looking at some cute ships” Ares: “Aww, it’s a good thing you’re not a war goddess, you wouldn’t last a day”
@lern2reed2 жыл бұрын
That’s brilliant. I’m stealing this headcanon.
@LittleShit2 жыл бұрын
@@spaceoil4259 I think that Ares would definitely know about Aphrodite's war goddess aspect based on Red's vid on Aphrodite
@firebunnylover31082 жыл бұрын
Another curious aspect on Aphrodite’s role is that she and Helen sort of parallel each other as they are so beautiful people fight over her before they are put in a marriage/relationship neither of them had a say in, and the guy who they chose happens to be Spartan (ares is the patron god of Sparta so he’s spartan default)
@d.n52872 жыл бұрын
@@spaceoil4259 Ares: "You're all about that make love not war" Aphrodite: **under her breath** "I can do both."
@adeleaslan81822 жыл бұрын
Achilles rage could actually easily be explained as being the result of a child never truly growing up, as his enthusiasm for war was encouraged because the soldiers knew how useful his strength was and he spent ten years, practically growing up in war and not suffering any actual consequences since he was unbeatable, and Patroclus wouldn't get hurt as long as was there. His death wasn't just the loss of the person he loved more than his fate itself, but the only loss he'd ever suffered, and first consequences of his glory quest of war and in this essay I will-
@jeremiahardales65972 жыл бұрын
So he's Homelander but with slightly more empathy in the form of Patroclus?
@adeleaslan81822 жыл бұрын
@@jeremiahardales6597 see you get the idea
@Beat92 жыл бұрын
No no, continue. Please.
@mysticpumpkin85202 жыл бұрын
@@jeremiahardales6597 kinda, but no really. While Achilles was far from a saint, he wasnt Homelander-levels of psychopathy (that would be Agammenon, but without the strenght) and most of the time, he was quite justified in his anger, even if the methods to show it were not appropiate, and was capable of emphaty and humanity. Is just that the context and the people around him (except Patroclus) brought up his most callous side
@jeremiahardales65972 жыл бұрын
@@mysticpumpkin8520 So he's more Omni-Man than Homelander? Got it.
@dragonlord1861 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the arrows that Philoctetes uses to kill Paris are actually Heracles’ Hydra Blood arrows. Philoctetes got them from Heracles after helping him light his funeral pyre after the whole “Hydra Blood Shirt” incident. Just a nice little detail that emphasizes how the trojan war generation was the generation right after Heracles’ generation.
@giorgospapoutsakis5271 Жыл бұрын
True, because after they took Troy the downfall of their civilization [The Mycenaean] began after the siege of Troy which lead to the Dorons migration from the north which are called Hercules descendants in the myth "The return if the Herakles" The conclusion is that it's indeed right
@ryanthelion276511 ай бұрын
This is part of the reason I love Greek mythology because there's almost a timeline
@davialmeida44424 ай бұрын
I doubt Pari's wife could have done much then. But it's still nice to know Paris died thinking he could have survived was he not the worst
@Books-Music-Tea2 жыл бұрын
I've watched this video a couple of times and realized something. Hera and Athena weren't just pissed at not being chosen but the additional insult to injury. For Hera, Paris snubbed her offer to make him king of the world for a woman who was already married (and happily so, if I recall correctly) showing no respect for her domain. For Athena, Paris turned down her offer of glory and victory to marry a woman whose marriage is technically under the protection of powerful kings that can and will reduce Troy to rubble to honor their oath. It's a very, very stupid move that is guaranteed to end in failure (or pyrrhic victory) especially with the Goddess of War and Wisdom against him. He didn't just snub them in favor of Aphrodite and her offer, Paris basically spat in their faces, even if it was unintentional.
@John_Weiss2 жыл бұрын
Huh. That's a very interesting interpretation.
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
Paris didn't actually know that Helen would be the one he ended up with. Aphrodite only promised the most beautiful woman in the world, but didn't tell Paris who that was. So no, Hera and Athena were just being petty.
@Kelaiah012 жыл бұрын
@@Blokewood3 I read that Aphrodite *did* tell Paris specifically about Helen, even mentioning that she was already married, "but don't worry, I'll take care of that!" or something.
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
@@Kelaiah01 I guess this is a detail that depends on the storyteller.
@Kelaiah012 жыл бұрын
@@Blokewood3 I actually read that in "Dialogues of the Gods." Most of them are quite hilarious. XD
@namechanged12482 жыл бұрын
What’s kind of interesting is the implication that the Trojan war is just a hugely mythologized version of a real conflict that happened just prior to the Bronze Age collapse and beginning of the Greek dark ages.
@SimonClarkstone2 жыл бұрын
OSP have a video about that connection too.
@twinkiesmaster692 жыл бұрын
@@SimonClarkstone which one?
@giuliagabriela97292 жыл бұрын
Last blue video I think its about the Crete island
@SpiderkillersInc2 жыл бұрын
I’d compare it to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a dramatization of real events that has fictional elements. Just based off oral history than written.
@allthebanter93162 жыл бұрын
@@SpiderkillersInc I’d compare it slightly more to the book of invasions more than the three kingdoms, as well as the tales of hengest and horsa
@ryanmattox74082 жыл бұрын
I’ve always believed the real reason Hera and Athena got mad about losing the Apple is because Aphrodite proved she can outsmart them. They see this young dude and offer him kind of intangible things power and boundless wisdom. Aphrodite knows mortal hearts and realizes Paris will much prefer something ‘real’. The most beautiful woman in the world. THAT Paris can actually conceive of.
@SamJNE1222 жыл бұрын
To be honest, considering that she is literally the god of seduction, I feel as though she could have gotten him to pick her without offering anything. I don't think that Hera or Athena ever stood a chance.
@OmniGman2 жыл бұрын
Hell, in some versions Aphrodite is literally the Goddess of Love AND Beauty! Meanwhile, Hera can't even get her own husband to sleep with her consistently despite being the literal Goddess of Marriage and Athena never previously gave any indication of caring overmuch about her looks. So, yeah, not really a fair match-up.
@AnimeSunglasses2 жыл бұрын
"How DARE she win with a CHEAP SHOT like THAT!!!"
@AnimeSunglasses2 жыл бұрын
@@OmniGman Nobody in ancient Greece ever claimed that marriage and fidelity were the same thing. ...At least for men...
@richeybaumann17552 жыл бұрын
It's... really not that deep. Aphrodite Pandemos is flighty, fickle, and has absolutely no concept of consequences. She just thought "pretty people belong together" and decided to make it happen.
@YouveBeenMegged Жыл бұрын
Y’know, this whole mess *technically* was partially caused by Odysseus, but it’s really the fault of whoever didn’t invite Eris to the godsdamn wedding. Like, I get you’re worried she’s gonna cause trouble, but she’ll *definitely* cause more trouble if she’s not invited.
@BlackSwordMeister Жыл бұрын
Damned if you do, damned if you dont...
@YouveBeenMegged Жыл бұрын
@@BlackSwordMeister I suppose, but if you're damned either way, better to not give her a reason to target you specifically.
@kbye2321 Жыл бұрын
I suppose, but who wants chaos at their wedding?
@FirebladesSong Жыл бұрын
@@kbye2321 Someone wise enough to know there's no escaping it and better to invite it than to be surprised by it.
@brianbell83827 ай бұрын
So, Zeus is really to blame (which wouldn't suprise me). Interestingly, from what I understand from Greek mythology, the Trojan War is one of several methods Zeus used as a means to get rid of all his demi-god children running around on Earth so regular mankind could inherit it.
@halfanegg64962 жыл бұрын
I find it interesting how Patroclus getting killed was what made Achilles go all out. Like he basically heard the news and said “they could have not done that and won the war, but now they made it so that I have nothing left to fear loosing and no reason to hold back”
@Anna-hl9hy2 жыл бұрын
It’s quite beautiful and tragic at the same time. He was blinded by his own selfishness and the only way he could see again was by his love dying. He was so depressed but you could say everything he did from then on was for the love of a boy
@eyjay15082 жыл бұрын
@@Anna-hl9hy Except the weren't in love. Achilles was already married with children before the war, married Polyxena after Patroclus died and married Medea in the afterlive after he was killed. Literally the sole reason he walked out of the war is because agamemnon stole his girlfriend and people still think him and patroclus were in love, despite the fact that its not writen anywhere in the illiad or the odyssey and despite the fact that it would highly blasphemus because achilles was younger but was also a god.
@eyjay15082 жыл бұрын
@Megumin Tobuna;-; Males lovers weren't common, that's just a reddit/tumblr rumor. Most same gender lovers in ancient greece were teachers with underage students, it was dishonorable for men of the same stature to be in relationships, and double so when the younger one (eromenos) was a demigod. Also, achilles already had brieses to bang lol
@crawlingboy2 жыл бұрын
@@eyjay1508 leave it man these people take the weird head canon some theater writers in ancient greece made for those two and everyone loves fujo bait so they go with it even when they were not having anything like that heaven forbid a man gets saddened by his comrade who he cared for like family dying
@crawlingboy2 жыл бұрын
@Megumin Tobuna;-; it was stated that patrocules was given to achilles to be like a mentor character to achilles and they had a minion and delinquent friend relationship
@Ajehy2 жыл бұрын
There’s a super sad bit in the Iliad when Helen goes up to the walls to look at the Achean heroes and is confused that her brothers (the Discouri) aren’t there. She has no idea that they died 10 years ago, before even setting sail for Troy.
@Boss_Isaac2 жыл бұрын
Helen was still at Sparta when her brothers died, wasn't she? I remember they retrieved her while Theseus went down to Erebos with Pirothoös; they took Theseus' mother Aithra back with them to serve as Helen's handmaiden and she later accompanied her to Troy.
@Ajehy2 жыл бұрын
@@Boss_Isaac it depends on the version, but here’s Homer’s: “‘There are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself. Either they have not left Lacedaemon, or else, though they have brought their ships, they will not show themselves in battle for the shame and disgrace that I have brought upon them.’ She knew not that both these heroes were already lying under the earth in their own land of Lacedaemon.”
@donnguyen11072 жыл бұрын
her brothers' own story is usually that Pollux is immortal but Castor is mortal and was killed in a fight with these other twins. So Zeus gave Pollux a choice: live up on Olympus as an immortal, or share his immortality with Castor with both spending a day in the underworld and a day in the heavens. So Pollux chose the latter, and now both brothers are alive AND dead, having also become the constellation Gemini.
@ianhogben34722 жыл бұрын
@@donnguyen1107 a good brother
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
Her brothers were argonauts, which happened a generation before the Trojan War, so they would probably be in their 60s-70s by the time of the Iliad. Odd that Helen would expect them to still be fighting.
@lthefifteenth6612 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, I feel that Helen doesn't deserve the hate. Considering she was charmed by Aphrodite herself to go with Paris and even tries to resist her influence in the Illiad, I think it's pretty clear that she never wanted any of the collateral damage that happened over what a God demanded
@floricel_1122 жыл бұрын
Ancient greeks be like: "sure, Paris may have kidnapped Helen, but it's the woman's fault for being too beautiful in the first place" Same vibes as "the woman has no claim to the child she gave birth to, she's just the oven that cooks the bun" and "burn Penelope at the stake if she were to sleep/cheat with any of the princes courting her, but Odysseus sleeping with Calypso and Circe is 100% A-Ok and totally not cheating"
@ohno83982 жыл бұрын
I always perceived it has her being a victim of kidnapping trying to figure a way out so I always find it hard to gel with other interpretations even if they were probably the intended ones. Every time she talks to Paris she sounds like she utterly despises him.
@lthefifteenth6612 жыл бұрын
@@ohno8398 Yeah I remember writing an essay about Helen back in University. It actually irritates me how there is somehow an argument against Helen here
@coltonwilliams41532 жыл бұрын
Even in the version where she pretends to be the Achean men’s wives when they’re hiding in the horse, which shows that she’s completely acting in Troy’s interests, at that point, at least, it’s obvious that that’s because of the love spell that Aphrodite cast on her. I’ve only ever blamed Paris and Aphrodite for this giant ass fiasco. Helen and Odysseus were completely innocent in this.
@lthefifteenth6612 жыл бұрын
@@coltonwilliams4153 There's also the time leading up to the war. There was negotiations to have Helen returned but they were promptly denied.
@mythicalgirl20052 жыл бұрын
Because of everything that happened, I honestly think Helen as a child of Nemesis is very poetic.
@seanmcloughlin5983 Жыл бұрын
It’s also kinda funny thinking of it being an extension of her demigod powers that everyone who is mean to her dies horribly And I think the fact that Menelaus doesn’t get any negative energy and lives a long happy life means she probably did actually love him and the Paris thing was kidnapping/god BS
@mythicalgirl2005 Жыл бұрын
@@seanmcloughlin5983 I actually want to write an adaptation that uses that version of her parentage in which she goes with Paris willingly in order to instigate the war as punishment for something one of the Trojans did.
@seanmcloughlin5983 Жыл бұрын
@@mythicalgirl2005 id read that Reply here if you ever end up making it, that sounds rad
@leeh4669 Жыл бұрын
@@seanmcloughlin5983 Even if she doesn't love Menelaus, she loves her daughter Hermione, and in some play or poem (not the Iliad, but maybe by Euripides? Unsure) she laments the fact that she and Hermione would weave together and now her daughter just has her tiny loom, all alone. That stuck with me because it's such a sad image, and because it signals that she really didn't want to go with Paris, if not for her husband then for her daughter.
@DaughterofRevenge Жыл бұрын
@@mythicalgirl2005 That is so cool btw! I was also planning to write as well about that one too! Except that I was thinking about the story of the Trojan War in Nemesis' POV and how she feels about Helen, her daughter. It is really intriguing of what their mother-daughter dynamics are like. ❤
@Peteman2 жыл бұрын
Artemis: "I can't believe you actually tried to sacrifice your daughter." Agamemnon: "You're the one that put me up to it!" Artemis: "I didn't think you'd actually do it!" Agamemnon: "Have you even met me?!"
@Pihsrosnec2 жыл бұрын
Imma be honest, Artemis doesn't seem like the type who'd actually save the daughter. Like, she's not necessarily evil but she's insanely cold and brutal. She the god of the hunt after all, impersonal carnage is her whole thing.
@SamJNE1222 жыл бұрын
@@Pihsrosnec That's true, but it also seems weird that she would demand that the daughter be killed in the first place. She does also supposedly protect children (especially young women).
@kinrateia2 жыл бұрын
My headcanon is that Artemis wanted her to be her priestess and sent off to one of her temples to serve her, but Agamemnon ✨ misunderstood ✨
@naurahdeatrisyagitany83652 жыл бұрын
@@kinrateia Isn't one of the versions of Orestes Furies-haunted misadventures have him stumble across Iphigenia who was saved by Artemis and made into a priestess of hers? So at least one playwright shares your headcanon
@ToaArcan2 жыл бұрын
@@kinrateia Artemis: Ey gimme the kid. Agamemnon, with two braincells: Well we give things to the gods by killing and burning them, right?
@crimsonterror57952 жыл бұрын
Poor Cassandra, was forced to live with the knowledge of the destruction of her whole life without being able to convince anyone of her powers. Then to have her family killed, get enslaved, abused, then murdered for being enslaved.
@plinfan65412 жыл бұрын
Cassandra did nothing wrong.
@meauxlala20792 жыл бұрын
Everyone likes to talk about Athena and Medusa (which I really hate that version of the myth but it's so popular now) but no one ever talks about how she could have saved Cassandra and didn't.
@wren_.2 жыл бұрын
Cassandra is literally the epitome of “i told you so”
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
Cassandra didn't deserve all the tragedy she went through, but it was her own fault she had prophesies no one believed: Apollo asked her out and she said she would only be with him if he gave her the gift of prophecy, but then she still refused to date him. Apollo couldn't take back the gift, so he cursed her so that no one would believe her prophesies.
@isabellp.57302 жыл бұрын
@@Blokewood3 Depending on the translation, he wasn't asking her out, but wanted to have sex. Yikes.
@crackedhelm42922 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love how you're just merging Odysseus more and more with solid snake every episode with him in.
@Variocom2 жыл бұрын
"Odysseus just barely managed to keep the others from blowing their cover through basic logic and the occasional application of CQC." really got me 😂
@liegeparadox26242 жыл бұрын
@@Variocom I’m just imagining him holding whatever poor soul first tried to speak up in a choke hold while angrily whispering to the others not to blow their cover.
@coltonwilliams41532 жыл бұрын
@@liegeparadox2624 Odysseus: I will kill you all if I think you’re going to blow this! Do you Hades damned idiots understand me?! Everyone else: Yessir! Yessir! Whatever you say! Poor bastard in the chokehold: *painful grunting while tapping out*
@the_tactician98582 жыл бұрын
Honestly young Solid Snake Odysseus might be my favourite character in this episode.
@leithaziz27162 жыл бұрын
That'd make Achilles Raiden and Agamemnon Liquid or Ocelot.
@immawraffle2 жыл бұрын
The best thing about the Trojan horse is that it really *is* a tribute to Athena -- she's the goddess of *war and strategy.*
@KaiHung-wv3ul9 ай бұрын
Always thought it was awfully convenient for Laomedon to suddenly die by snakes, but all's fair in love and war I suppose.
@thogthemighty79602 жыл бұрын
God I love Eris's OwO face. I've never seen her portrayed as anything other than a bitter crone, but her portrayal as a chaotic and sassy anime girl is new and interesting.
@BJGvideos2 жыл бұрын
The DreamWorks movie about Sinbad had her as more of a...goth anime girl
@incognitoman36562 жыл бұрын
Reversed for me?
@skypaver9892 жыл бұрын
I like to envision her as Raquel from Barbie life in the dreamhouse
@fourleafclover20642 жыл бұрын
Either way, Eris is every Sapphic person's sexual awakening
@incognitoman36562 жыл бұрын
@@BJGvideos exactly
@marowakcity37272 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that Cassandra is just, there in the video constantly panicking with everyone else (including Red) ignoring her
@ceilinh60042 жыл бұрын
Yup. Very funny, and very in keeping with the story.
@incognitoman36562 жыл бұрын
Hmmmnnn
@ThatoneAct2 жыл бұрын
I love how all of Achilles' involvement is literally just "I'm sad, you're dead now, I'm sad again, I'm dead now"
@MalloonTarka2 жыл бұрын
More like "YAAAAY, WAR! Oh noes, war causes bad things? I'm sad, your're dead now." and so on and so forth.
@Shantari2 жыл бұрын
"I came here to flee the furies and kick ass, and the furies are inescapable!" is an amazing pre ass kicking one liner.
@betula21372 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Australia's defence headquarters once let in a literal Trojan horse. Once in, the warriors fell from the breach and were not arrested for funni reasons
@Liam-Welch2 жыл бұрын
The same guys who lost a war to emus
@Sb_Antimony2 жыл бұрын
What was this?
@betula21372 жыл бұрын
@@Liam-Welch You fought in the war, Uncle Ben?
@betula21372 жыл бұрын
@@Sb_Antimony The Chaser, you can find the video if you search for it on KZbin They were an iconic satire show, equipped with lawyers to make sure they didn't get themselves in serious trouble, while sticking to the very knife's edge!
@Out_Beyond_The_Heliopause2 жыл бұрын
Ah some classic Chasers War on Everything hijinks 😆
@bordenfleetwood57732 жыл бұрын
I honestly love Red's unconditional hatred of Agamemnon. It's just so pure and consistent. Like, she'll acknowledge the virtues of any debate point (even if she thinks you're wrong) on virtually any topic that's been discussed on this channel, but Agamemnon... He's just "the Worst." That's it, debate over. (I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment; I just find her hatred of him to be pure and refreshingly unadulterated.)
@mustafam956 Жыл бұрын
Agememnon is a true chad
@NA-AN Жыл бұрын
@@mustafam956I'm sorry, but I think you made a typo. I believe the word you're looking for is '*Scumbag*'.
@Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up._Hi Жыл бұрын
@@NA-AN Do you mean "backpfeifengesicht"?
@my_girl_seraphine529410 ай бұрын
A hatred more than earned
@TomatenUndZwiebelSuppe5 ай бұрын
He's a Henry VIII type of character, where in his youth he's quite competent and honorable, even. But towards his later life, he becomes the arrogant, bad-choice Georg.
@fafaaf612 жыл бұрын
So a bit of an interesting fact: most people know that the Trojan war lasted a decade but what people don't know is that the part of the story where Artemis causes the Greek ships to be lost lasts 8 years. This is interesting because the Trojan cycle doesn't actually make it entirely clear if the 8 years lost at sea "counts" as part of the 10 years which either means that the actual Trojan war only lasted 2 years or that the time the Greeks were gone actually totals to 18 years.
@jasondoe25962 жыл бұрын
Interesting; do you remember any source for that? In any case, it can't be 18 years, because then Odysseus would be away from home for 28 years, and Telemachus isn't that old.
@Крэйден_х2 жыл бұрын
@@jasondoe2596 Here you can also remember that Achilles had a son, Telemachus, who was born either a couple of months before the departure of "our young hero" to Troy, or immediately after. And Telemachus is mentioned as a young warrior who fought in Troy, and who took Andromache and a couple of other personalities with him. So the 18 year version makes sense. Although then poor Odysseus returned home a 60-year-old old man.
@durrangodsgrief65032 жыл бұрын
@@Крэйден_х where is he called Telemachus isnt his name pyrrhus or Neoptolemus
@axios47022 жыл бұрын
probably the former, since Odysseus son would be over thirty and a proper king by the time the aforementioned returned if it had been 28 years.
@durrangodsgrief65032 жыл бұрын
@@axios4702 no not Odysseus son Achilles son
@foulplayer78122 жыл бұрын
At the end of the day, Paris was doomed no matter who he chose. Giving the apple to any one goddess would invoke the wrath of the other two upon the judge. That's precisely why Zeus told Hermes to go find some mortal to settle the dispute between the three goddesses rather than dealing with it himself. It's one of the smartest and sneakiest things Zeus ever did.
@xaf15001 Жыл бұрын
He probably thought the 2 goddesses would've just killed the mortal and be done with it. Unfortunately, he picked Paris...
@zainmudassir2964 Жыл бұрын
Maybe Choosing Athena would have helped fight off threats
@toetotipthatsabart5048 Жыл бұрын
That’s why you gotta cut the apple into thirds! Unfortunately apple slicers hadn’t been invented yet.
@joshuaholland5279 Жыл бұрын
Asks hades if he wants a gift for his wife (the other goddesses are afraid of hurting him due to how scary Persephone is)
@rileymitchell3510 Жыл бұрын
I feel like hera or Athena would have been smarter choices lmao, they can both protect him.
@Borderose2 жыл бұрын
Ares is a big, beautiful, brutish bufoon. The closest thing the Olympians had to a god of evil. But I found out he's got a surprisingly good track record when women are concerned. 1) He is Aphrodite's favorite lover and later her surprisingly supportive husband. He doesn't even mind her sleeping around because he sees it as his girl's thing. Her form of conquest and asserting dominance and he can't get enough of it. He doesn't want to tie her down. No, he wants to unleash her on the world. 2) He's sired pretty badass daughters. He also became the first god to go to court and nearly lose his godhood because he avenged one of his daughters getting violated by butchering the rapist. The rapist was one of Poseidon's sons, so he was up against a stacked court. He got acquited only because on the day of verdict, there were more goddesses than gods in the jury. All the gods voted to punish him. All the goddesses wanted to let him go. 3) He's got a good relationship with his aunt, Hestia. Then again everyone does. But it's very important for Ares as his aunt was his one source of familial-warmth knowing full well how his parents feel about him and how dysfunctional they all are. 4) On that note, Ares is apparently a hands on dad. Even to his bastards (Who Aphrodite is totally cool with too.) Even to the girls. Even to the monstrous looking ones. All his kids either see him in their lives or he leaves them with little boons to set them up. He tries to be a good father because he knew his own father hated him and he tries to be there for his kids in ways Zeus never was for him. As war, it's understandable the "defender of mankind" and "father of laws" would not love nor like the war and bloodshed god. But the war and bloodshed god relishes in fighting alongside his sons, Phobos and Deimos. Morbid, sure, but you gotta appreciate Ares for being a present father. 5) Oh, yeah. The big one. Ares? Brutal, bloody Ares? _Isn't a rapist._ In a messed up family, the war god is the only one without a rape story. Hell, one of his kids with Aphrodite is the embodiment of reciprocity. He is also apparently the official defender of mistreated women. Women who were mistreated pray to him for strength. Which sadly might have contributed to his unpopularity. Oh, and he's a big supporter of the Amazons. The whole culture collectively sees him as their dad.
@sarahcole96612 жыл бұрын
I heard one reason Ares gets such an awful reputation, besides that warfare sucks for everybody, is that he was the patron god of Sparta. This is important bc Sparta’s number one rival was Athens, and apparently all the people who actually wrote the oral tradition down came from there
@bthsr71132 жыл бұрын
@@sarahcole9661 Yeah, he really gets the short end of the stick more often than not, while lacking severe crimes to his name. Though I see revaluations of Ares being less likely than the revaluations that Hades has gotten. Death is a natural thing we must all face, and Hades watches over all the souls of the dead (that are in his jurisdiction). Whereas war is not a natural thing, and it is often needlessly started by the wicked.
@donnguyen11072 жыл бұрын
Ok seriously if I were to be a demigod/greek figure, for immortal dads, Poseidon or Ares are at the top of my list. Better yet, they could both be my dads. For immortal moms, i'd say either Demeter or Aphrodite (Red's established she's got a warrior and virtuous streak too).
@JapanFreak25952 жыл бұрын
Never thought I would return to this video with the idea of Ares being a lowkey feminist icon.
@toniyami2 жыл бұрын
When did he get married to Aphrodite?
@jaybonn59732 жыл бұрын
this is really the OG Cinematic Universe. Imagine being that person who learned of all of these and put the pieces together.
@awesomemantroll10882 жыл бұрын
*put
@ironicweeb41112 жыл бұрын
Red’s scholarly work on this channel is amazing and arguably more charming than Blue’s (she’s the reason I’ve been here for so long, sorry Blue)
@aristheodorakis78362 жыл бұрын
That nerd would be king of the wigglers? 🤫
@A_Black_Sheep942 жыл бұрын
...Homer?
@aristheodorakis78362 жыл бұрын
@@A_Black_Sheep94 I believe you have to be alive to hold that position? Also, while he was a master storyteller/weaver of tales; there is no evidence that he was an Einstein, a DaVinci, Socrates?
@1987MartinT2 жыл бұрын
One version I read said that Achilles, upon killing Penthesilea, was shocked when he saw how young she was(which, considering Achilles was possibly a teenager when the Trojan War started, makes me wonder how young Penthesilea was for him to be horrified by her to be fighting and to have killed her at such a young age), and forbade anyone from looting the corpses of her and her warriors.
@athena32682 жыл бұрын
Maybe he saw himself in her, choosing to fight for glory and dying young.
@shreowotheartist2532 жыл бұрын
And then Thersites, that asshole, just straight up slammed a sword into her skull, based on the telling that Im familiar with (dunno if it's consistent with other versions or not, since I read a Vietnamese translation)
@jean-paulaudette92462 жыл бұрын
I thought females were considered to be of no accounted age at all, until they were married... then again, with folks of such far-flung upbringings, some variations in cultural 'norms' must be expected.
@athena32682 жыл бұрын
@@jean-paulaudette9246 During Homer's time aka 8th century BCE we have little knowledge of the sociopolitical dynamics in every single city state.
@A_Black_Sheep942 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the general consensus is how shocked he was by her beauty.
@Emily-tv1iz Жыл бұрын
So I always pictured Helen as being a young twenty-something in the Trojan War. Freshly married, freshly kidnapped, the perfect age for young suitors to look at her and go "mine". But Clytemnestra is the *exact same age* as her and had a daughter in her teens(ish?) at the start of the war. So that bumps up Helen's age to at least thirty. This started me down a rabbit-hole of what actually was going on between Helen's arranged marriage and Helen's...new arranged marriage. Turns out, she had at least one child by the time of Aphrodite's shenanigans. So these kids lost their mother suddenly, the father sailed off to get her back....and then a decade passes. By the time the parents returned the kids were all basically adults. That's weirdly sad to think about. Where's the story of these parents finally reuniting with their now grown-up children after a literal decade apart? Gimme that tale!
@Kingdomkey123678 Жыл бұрын
That tale is in the Nostoi which is sadly lost to time
@Gioppdumister8 ай бұрын
It likely does exist. And is lost to time. There’s a shit ton of myths that are just missing from us and we know they existed.
@aliceinwonderbruh64337 ай бұрын
also Menelaus spent SEVEN YEARS getting back after the Trojan war too
@Graycata5 ай бұрын
That goes double for Odysseus. He missed his son's entire childhood in teen years
@athena32682 жыл бұрын
About Achilles' heel: it was common in stories to say that where a hero got their mortal wound was actually their one weakness. Ajax also was said to be invincible except from where he plunged his own sword, and Cygnus, who Achilles kills in the Cypria, was invincible except the head.
@redwitch122 жыл бұрын
That... makes a surprising amount of sense. Like "wow this dude was such a total badass in battle that he MUST have been immune to damage, except for that one thing which happened to kill him, for Reasons"
@colinmerritt76452 жыл бұрын
What I've never understood is how a heel strike is lethal. I'm trying to imagine the worst case scenario: crushed bone, severed muscle, blood everywhere, but it seems (again worst case scenario) they could have amputated the foot and cauterize the leg.
@brennantmi50632 жыл бұрын
@@colinmerritt7645 Pray tell, how do you amputate a foot that is indestructible? For that matter how do you cauterize flesh that cannot be burned? From a practical angle, 90% of people that died in war around this time died from infection after getting a small scratch. That said, if the major artery in the leg was hit and not addressed you can very well bleed out before people know what to do.
@fishworshipper2 жыл бұрын
In the case where he’s invincible everywhere else: I imagine that his heel is his weak point because all of his remaining ‘mortality’ is there. It his his only remaining tie to the mortal world. Destroying it is supernaturally lethal, not purely physically.
@athena32682 жыл бұрын
@@colinmerritt7645 poison
@andrewkim98482 жыл бұрын
I keep thinking I've heard all the weird stuff that possibly happened in Greek mythos, and then I have to hear about Helen hatching from an egg because her mom got double-teamed by Swan Zeus and her husband
@nidohime62332 жыл бұрын
And that is not even the only case of bestiality in greek mythology, remember the Minotaur?
@jacktaylor62532 жыл бұрын
And poseidon as a horse, cant forget that. Or the literal snakes
@leunam30042 жыл бұрын
Greek mythology is basically 50% someone gets killed for stupid reasons that could be totally avoided and the other 50% is Zeus banging everything but never in his original form and the consequences that come out of those.
@evobrand12102 жыл бұрын
@@jacktaylor6253... golden rain. Zeus turned into golden rain.
@jurriendevries2 жыл бұрын
My absolute favorite part of the Iliad is towards the very end when Priam goes up to the Achean camp to beg for his son's corpse. The pure love of a father for his son, which goes so deep that even Achilles' wrath subsides never fails to pull on those heartstrings.
@alexcrick80102 жыл бұрын
If I remember, Achilles gives him 10 days to grieve the death of his son, and returns Hectors body. Agamemnon then decides that this is a great time for an invasion and his side gets absolutely fucked cause Achilles refuses to rejoin until the 10 days have ended.
@FirePuncher1832 жыл бұрын
@@alexcrick8010 Agamemnon really is just the worst
@maks-tldr562 жыл бұрын
And then Paris gets shot in the dick and he doesnt give a shit. Dad of the year
@LordDeathwing172 жыл бұрын
@@alexcrick8010 had they existed back then, what sections of the Geneva Conventions would Agamemnon be breaking by doing that?
@Eric67612 жыл бұрын
@@LordDeathwing17 yes
@cdonovan44712 жыл бұрын
I would love to see an animated video, or at least a youtube short that's framed as a game show for "Ancient Greece's Next Top Asshole" between Jason, Theseus, and Agamemnon.
@jtmartin1170 Жыл бұрын
Little do they know, the final challenge for the show is the contestants have to somehow out-asshole Zeus
@Mythmasyer4728 Жыл бұрын
@@jtmartin1170 That is quite literally impossible.
@corvuscolbrand Жыл бұрын
I'm tired of the Jason slander man did nothing wrong. Worst thing you can argue was the Medea incident but that LITERALLY wasn't his choice. He had a passing interest and then Aphrodite mind controlled Medea into being madly in love with Jason and, be honest of a second. If Jason had rejected the free wife from Aphrodite Aphrodite would have fucked him up for having the audacity. When a god gives you something even if you didn't want it you do not reject it, they're Greek gods, they're awful And no shit he ended up leaving her eventually she commited multiple bloody yandere-esque murders including her own brother without even being prompted to do it. Jason was not exactly put in a position where there was no right choice.
@origional_name_here1429 Жыл бұрын
@@corvuscolbrandI mean, he could have just not done it, cause she single handedly carried his ass the entire time they were in her homeland, got their marriage sanctified by Hera and was at the best point he could be in and was able to cock it up and anger both Hera for trying to cheat on his wife and Zeus for the family murder. Bro had everything given to him on a silver platter and died under the rotting prow of the Argo, that is scientific levels of stupidity
@agatha6999 Жыл бұрын
They should have a “dumbass” category to it as well so characters like Paris can join
@CalliopePony2 жыл бұрын
Since Eris is supposed to throw the golden apple at Peleus and Thetis' wedding and Achilles is old enough to go fight by the time the Trojan War begins I like to imagine that the conflict over the apple lasted longer than we realize. Like maybe the goddesses spent a couple of decades (long enough for Achilles to be conceived, born, and grow to adulthood) pestering Zeus for a decision before he finally came up with the idea to foist his problem off on Paris. And he just spent that whole time desperately trying to give them the runaround.
@BunnyOnASnuman2 жыл бұрын
If I recall correctly, he wasn't an adult when the war started. He was more like a teenager
@mysticpumpkin85202 жыл бұрын
Kinda. He was more of a teenager, but Achilles effectively was a child soldier send by Fate itself (no, not that Fate), and in some version, because he wanted to accompany Patroclus, since he was into the multi-national treaty of pritecting Helen And Eris effectively was Proto-Maleficent, since the reason she did the apple thing was because she wasnt invided to Peleus and Thetis' weeding
@kennyholmes51962 жыл бұрын
Probably in some way because of Hera, considering how Zeus _knows_ better than to make her ticked off... plus, he's _married_ to her, so not claiming she's the most beautiful would make her right peeved.
@nightlock8262 жыл бұрын
Zeus might be willing to stick it wherever he can, but even he knows a bear trap when he sees one
@TheJH10152 жыл бұрын
@@kennyholmes5196 I mean, yes, but on the other hand saying that someone is more beautiful than Aphrodite is *also* a very dangerous thing to do xD
@bobaoriley19122 жыл бұрын
You know the Trojan war was huge when Red calls the Odyssey and Anead an epilogue. I loved the character design and how unique everybody was. The witty dialogue was great!
@ashadasha12172 жыл бұрын
For the record, Red, your Iliad video is one of my absolute favourites and what lead me to the channel
@thedissatisfactoryman1142 жыл бұрын
I agree, it was a big help to my Iliad essay
@Dyneamaeus2 жыл бұрын
Seconded. Or Fourth'd, I guess.
@Togro19902 жыл бұрын
Don’t look at how long ago it came put
@sorasilverstar1442 жыл бұрын
DITTO!~
@timothymclean2 жыл бұрын
Ultimately, without those early videos none of us would be here. Doesn't mean they're not embarrassing for Red to remember, of course...
@eclipsicalbluestocking11822 жыл бұрын
The panel at 10:02 looks incredible. In all seriousness, the art overall looks awesome and really shows how much you've grown as an artist since "The Iliad"
@J_JonahJameson2 жыл бұрын
I think it’s hilarious that the whole thing about Achilles wrapping himself in a blanket burrito is literally what happened in the Iliad
@Epic_Halfblood7 ай бұрын
He was ahead of his time, really. The only other thing he needs to be even more ahead of his time is a giant ice cream tub
@whatamidoingwithmylifehaha6 ай бұрын
@@Epic_Halfblood And a blahaj
@spiderlegs1572 жыл бұрын
The play "The Trojan Women" details how the women of Troy deal with the sacking of their home. It's a fantastic play that breaks my heart.
@quinnsine16502 жыл бұрын
The death of Andromache’s son will haunt me forever
@yusufnaqui7132 жыл бұрын
It's my favorite Greek play. Really shows the horrors of war and how it wrecks and demoralizes both victors and vanquished.
@travisoliver67412 жыл бұрын
"One word brings another" is probably one of my favorite simplistic quotes that I got from that play, and it's just one gut punch after another in it. Euripides is just awesome.
@Matrim422 жыл бұрын
Complete tonal whiplash, but I saw a production of Trojan Women that some of my friends were in and there’s a scene where Menelaus throws Helen to the ground and she had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction causing her breasts to fly out of her robe. I told my mom about it later and without missing a beat she deadpan said “did it launch your boat?”
@cosmedelustrac5842 Жыл бұрын
I didn't know about this. Thank you for mentionning it.
@sailoritaly2 жыл бұрын
Could you possibly do a whole video on Cassandra herself? She’s such a tragic character
@zainmudassir29642 жыл бұрын
So are most women in Greek mythology.
@starcapture30402 жыл бұрын
No I want Gilgamesh
@TheShinyFeraligatr2 жыл бұрын
Or Philoctetes, specifically because it's a great way to show off that Odysseus absolutely fucking deserved what came to him later, and because Philoctetes is metal as hell in his own right, literally blessed by a god because he had the balls to stand up and kill said god.
@selenakwok81692 жыл бұрын
I like that but I also want a whole video on Helen
@hiddenshadow21052 жыл бұрын
I also would love a video on Clytemnestra
@peanut_butter_wizard1213 Жыл бұрын
Oh I saw a cool theory about why Artemis demanded the daughter as a sacrifice. Artemis is the protector of young girls in mythology, which at first makes it make less sense why she would demand that sacrifice before letting them sail to Troy. But, it was her making Agamemnon have to deal with the loss he's going to put the people of Troy through. Like, the people attacking Troy don't have to worry about their families being caught up in the fighting bc they're nowhere near it. Artemis was going 'hey, if you really want to do this, sail off and destroy a city, kill hundreds of innocent girls? Prove your commitment. Kill your own daughter.' And Agamemnon is the worst so he barely hesitated
@mr.goblin60392 жыл бұрын
Speaking of the Amazons that showed up on the side of Troy, another group showed up to help the Trojans: the Ethiopians. Memnon, a prince and demigod from Africa, shows up to help Troy and kills a bunch of Greeks, one of which was Antilochos, a friend of Achilles. Nestor, the dude’s dad, tells Achilles, so he gears up again and meets Memnon to fight to a stand still. This was after Hector died, so it was a battle of two dudes trying to avenge their fallen comrades. After a long battle, Achilles gets a lucky blow and strikes him through the heart. The Gods were so impressed by Memnon doing so well in battle that they turned his burial ground into a river and all his loyal soldiers into birds… Cause Greek Gods honor warriors in very weird ways. The story of Troy is filled with a lot of cool stuff that is sadly never adapted in most stories. Like, the fact that Fate GO is the only piece of media that I’ve seen that even references the fact that Amazons showed up in the war should speak to how little these other parts of the story get mentioned.
@pantherjoseph2 жыл бұрын
But man, Pent sure is useful if you know you’re going up against any Greek hero…
@omarsalem12192 жыл бұрын
What I hate about most trojan war modern adaptations like The movie troy is The complete removal of all mythological aspects like The gods it's same problem with that boring Hercules movie starring the Rock what do these people have against mythology?
@TheShinyFeraligatr2 жыл бұрын
@@omarsalem1219 Some people just really, really fucking love mud fantasy for some godforsaken reason. The story of Camelot has the same issue.
@Nazuiko2 жыл бұрын
@@omarsalem1219 Or retconning Thor into a high tech super alien because *Cant offend the Christians by using the G word*
@TheSuperRatt2 жыл бұрын
@@Nazuiko They literally still call him a god in the movies.
@ravenwitch452 жыл бұрын
"Eris, Goddess of it's getting a little too chummy around here, wakes up one morning and choose's violence." That right there is a perfect representation of Red being humorous while also being completely accurate to these myths and I love it.
@gokbay30572 жыл бұрын
*CHAOS REIGNS*
@warbacca10172 жыл бұрын
A couple of variations Ive found more common are: 1) agammemnon didn't exactly threaten Odysseus's son, but rather put him down in the path of the plow and then called Odysseus on it when he swerved to avoid the kid. 2) Achilles's guardians don't want him to go so they disguise him as a girl along with the daughters of the king he's staying with. Odysseus tricks them by laying out ribbons, jewelry, etc. However he also includes a wooden sword, which Achilles picks up with interest and then they ask him to come and he agrees
@eyjay15082 жыл бұрын
Achilles cover was also blown when he ended up knocking up the actual princess while disguised.
@raptormage22092 жыл бұрын
And in another version it was Palamedes that exposed Odysseus, later he got stoned to death after Odysseus framed him of betrayal
@Brian-tn4cd2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't girl Achilles called Pyrrha like the one that was Prometheus' son's wife?
@reyonXIII2 жыл бұрын
@@Brian-tn4cd And that is why best girl gone too soon is named Pyrrha Nikos. (Hoping you get the reference) Oh, and "Pyrrha" and one of the princesses that's harboring him have a kid, covered briefly in one of the later OSP Di-Vines
@thexenosaiyan2 жыл бұрын
@@reyonXIII 5 Volumes past and there's still a twinge of pain
@user-qj9en1kp1m2 жыл бұрын
At 9:26 Achilles mourns the death of Penthesilia, but it is interesting to note that she is like the 3rd girl who is regarded as a potential wife to Achilles since the war started. Iphigineia was lured to the greek camp under the pretense that Achilles wants to marry her. Then there was the whole drama about Briseis. Then the Amazon queen. And the thing is that he was already married, before he sailed to Troy!
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
I guess Thersites kind of had a point then.
@1224chrisng Жыл бұрын
wow, 4 wives and a boyfriend, he sure is busy huh
@user-qj9en1kp1m Жыл бұрын
@@1224chrisng I think at a certain point even his son shows up at Troy, which I never understood. How many 9-year olds went to war in ancient Greece?
@raptormage2209 Жыл бұрын
To make it even weirder, he mightve been a child when he was married and even had a son, achilles was in his 20s i believe in the illiad which took place 10 years into the war, put 2 and 2 together And yeah
@adamwu4565 Жыл бұрын
I believe some sources state that Achilles’ son was 14 when he arrived at Troy after Achilles died. So just old enough to heft a spear. If Achilles was in his early to mid 20’s at the start of the war, and with the war in its 10th year when he died, there is just barely enough time for his son to have been born a few years before the war started.
@l.nombeu93462 жыл бұрын
A few things on this amazing kinda not really remake video 1. The opening was hype as hell. 2. The wingman treaty being called Operation M.A.D. is hilarious. 3. Your remade art from scenes you've done like the blanket burrito, heel shot etc were amazing. 4. Achilles picking the Elysium route over the boring Asphodel route (at 7) is hilarious. 5. Odysseus has been cemented as my favourite Greek Human.
@acecat27982 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for the call out of the "war bride" or "bride prize" euphemism. Beating around the bush on this is incredibly sick- Briseis and Chryseis deserve better, as do basically all of the women of Troy, who got their lives ruined way harder than any of the Achaeans did during/after the war. One thing I'd add is that Athena wasn't just pissed at the Achaeans for stealing her statue, but that Cassandra was assaulted _in Athena's temple_ or dragged from it when she had been embracing the statue and praying to Athena for safety.
@sasas8452 жыл бұрын
Yes. But also if you need an explanation for that, then your history class has failed you. Shit like that is so disgustingly common in war that in the region I live in, this is not a thing of legends and not even from history books but in living memory (i.e. some of the older folks around here have witnessed it themselves).
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
Cassandra was assaulted by Ajax the lesser, son of Oileus (not to be confused with the greater Ajax, son of Telamon). Some of the Greeks were considering killing Ajax right then and there to stave off a potential curse from the Gods, but Ajax claimed sanctuary (even though he hadn't shown Cassandra the same courtesy). On the trip away from Troy Ajax drowned, and nearly all the other leaders had a miserable time getting home except for Nestor, who had refrained from committing any war crimes.
@bluelfsuma2 жыл бұрын
Why are humans like this?
@sindrevangenrobberstad28892 жыл бұрын
I really like how Madeline Miller interpreted Briseis in The Song of Achilles. Achilles, who has zero interest in women in that book, takes her as a "bed slave" because Patroclus asks him to. Patroclus does this because he sees the fear in her eyes and wants to save her from being assaulted by any of the other men present. Achilles and him proceed to "claim" various other war brides, give them their own tent to chill out and be safe in, and become friends with them. Achilles and Patroclus never lay a hand on any of the women. Briseis also falls in love with Patroclus after they become good friends, but nothing ever comes of that because Patroclus is a one-man guy.
@wellstiscool2 жыл бұрын
Say what you want about the movie Troy (and there is a LOT to say), but Briseis getting to stab the fuck out of Agamemnon is a delightful and oh so satisfying piece of fanfiction.
@raiknightshade34422 жыл бұрын
Shout out to that daughter of Ares who singlehandedly ignited the concept of "hope this doesn't awaken anything in me!" In all of Troy's women, 10/10 i love her already and need an entire epic/movie just about her now
@KumaoftheForest2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, given my power kink, She’s got my eye
@Nobunga2 жыл бұрын
Her legacy is a four star servant in FGO that HATES Achilles
@anadaere68612 жыл бұрын
@@Nobunga She's also really really B
@higonakamura12362 жыл бұрын
@@Nobunga You mean CEO Penthesilea 😏
@TORchic12 жыл бұрын
@@Nobunga Also, the Persona of a main character in Persona 3.
@soaxiii62142 жыл бұрын
I always feel bad for Menelaus and Helen, from most of the texts, they're in a good relationship and then Paris comes along and kidnaps her, in most cases, against her will, which he responds like any good Husband would, grab all his buddies and go storm the castle. Also, Paris is a complete dick for having a wife and still choosing to get a married girl. Oh, and raiding Menelaus's treasury while kidnapping his wife is just the frosting on the shit cake that is Paris. I will never forget watching Troy in highschool, where they clearly tried to make Paris sympathetic, and not a single person in my class was rooting for him versus Menelaus.
@niserresin200611 ай бұрын
I remember one translation of the Iliad where the translator just went on a whole tangent about Aphrodite and Helen's interaction, with Helen simultaneously being really into Paris, hating herself for that and knowing that her emotions are fabricated by Aphrodite, and unironically saying at one point that Paris should die so this stupid war will be over (because she's grown genuinely fond of many Trojans and doesn't want them to die).
@ibrahimtuna375Ай бұрын
And while Iliad doesn't refers it as it's not that important, many texts says that Menelaus and Helen had at least a child(could be more) together. Paris, a married man, just stole a mother and made her convince to love him using Aphrodite's powers. It is cruel.
@notjohn59882 жыл бұрын
In love with the characterization of Achilles being absolutely PUMPED to fight and die in battle he doesn’t even have to be in and everyone else just being like “bro you good?”
@loadeddice46962 жыл бұрын
Patroclus: Can we just not? Achilles: What are you, gay or something? Patroclus: ...
@coltonwilliams41532 жыл бұрын
@@loadeddice4696 Achilles: Oh… sweet!
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
Thetis had hidden Achilles away on an island and disguised him as a girl, but Odysseus tricked him into coming out by visiting the island disguised as a peddler. While all the girls were interested in the things the "peddler" had brought, only one of them was interested in the deadly weapons for sale...
@boobah56432 жыл бұрын
@@Blokewood3 Was kind of disappointed Red skipped that story. Mind, there was lots that needed skipping if she was going to make a fourteen minute video.
@athena32682 жыл бұрын
Teenage enthusiasm
@Robinwinghood2 жыл бұрын
I really get the impression that the character most ancient greek storytellers ACTUALLY had the hots for wasn't Helen, but instead Achilles. with how many people he gets shipped with, however briefly. Especially when you count in that, if memory serves, Agamemnon tricked Iphigenia into coming to the ritual site by claiming she was going there to marry Achilles, making four Achilles love interests in total!
@Hyperversum32 жыл бұрын
More than the hots, that's the Shounen Hero Power. The guy is so cool you OF COURSE ship people to him, men and women alike. The only issue is that the ancients weren't above having their heroes boning the other part of the ship. Anime should learn something
@dylan.bissendmylife2 жыл бұрын
99.9% invulnerable hunk? sign me up
@SignumInterriti2 жыл бұрын
There was also a story, I don't remember the source, where he sieges another town for supplies during the war and the king's daughter just opens the gates hoping he'd marry her. Achilles had straightup simps, both in the stories and among their writers I assume.
@esmeecampbell73962 жыл бұрын
Well I mean this was written by Athenians who were all encouraged to be bum biters so that wouldn't surprise me...
@DemonicsInc2 жыл бұрын
I mean yeah ancient Greece was Hella gay, even the most renowned heros had some dude action on the side
@mizusenshisongs2 жыл бұрын
I've read the story about Helen being in Egypt! The version I read was called "The Greek Princess" and was in a book of Egyptian mythology. It basically says that she and Paris got blown to Egypt en route to Troy, and when the Egyptians found out what was going on, they hid Helen to save her from Paris. The "Helen" that went to Troy was actually just her "ka" (a sort of spirit double). After the war, Menelaus got guided to Egypt to get her back. Helen meanwhile had been staying in the temple of I think Hathor and actually kinda become associated with the goddess by the locals in some way.
@ndesi622 жыл бұрын
Two things: (1) this sounds like a story that some priest made up to in order to justify syncretism between Helen and Hathor, and (2) such syncretism makes sense, because Hathor is a solar deity, and from what I've read in the academic literature, Helen is actually also descended from the Proto-Indo-European sun goddess. It's actually really interesting how Helen got a huge downgrade from "super powerful sun goddess" to "damsel in distress".
@mindstalk2 жыл бұрын
crack fanfic is ancient
@spencertang51552 жыл бұрын
Sheesh do the woman some justice Not you the commenter, more just people who view this and see her as damsel in distress.
@jasondoe25962 жыл бұрын
@@spencertang5155 eh... we must admit that Helen in the Iliad is basically a plot device. Greek mythology has several women with agency and with strong personalities; Helen just isn't one of them.
@sean6682 жыл бұрын
@@spencertang5155 It shouldn't really come as a surprise. Authorial intent isn't everything, but Greeks were raving misogynists.
@Eldrisaur2 жыл бұрын
“Zeus, recognizes disaster when he sees it” Because he’s caused enough to know them
@shino42422 жыл бұрын
Hmm I dunno if I'd say this is Odysseus' fault. He may have made sure that "everyone" in Greece was honor bound to go to war to protect that marriage, but Paris is the one who shacked up with someone elses wife, Aphrodite is the one who handed said wife over to Paris, and Eris was the one who started the argument between the 3 goddesses in the first place. It's definitely more on their shoulders than Odysseus imo lmao. All HE did was make sure the ancient Greek version of a dating app went forward without the suitors killing eachother out of pettiness.
@syabilaazri78342 жыл бұрын
Yeah, i with you...i think that even Odysseus could not thought that this kind of war would happen over Helen got kidnap. All that he doing is just make sure every man stop fighting over a girl and let Helen choose her husband herself.
@tarniabook30762 жыл бұрын
I'd rather blame Eris. All the others, if the idea crossed their minds, would easily feel guilty, but I would bet my right hand that Eris, goddess of discord, was laughing like a maniac and having the time of her life watching the mortals and heroes arguing and killing each other. She did her job well.
@beazle25432 жыл бұрын
There's an old phrase out of Greece that hasn't really survived to the modern day: "The humour of the Fates is wry indeed.".
@allyrose94942 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the oath is what got all the armies to agree to fight Troy, but I put this more on Eris (for starting the contest with Hera, Athena and Aphrodite), Aphrodite (for offering a married woman as incentive), and Paris (who kidnapped a married woman just cause Aphrodite said he could have her)
@SingeScorcher2 жыл бұрын
I think the "Odysseus' fault" Joke is more in how people tend to overthink things after they've been through a lot. Odysseus absolutely did a good thing in preventing a buch of smaller wars, but he probably questioned how much of this mess was his fault because he technically had a hand in the setup.
@loonflam89102 жыл бұрын
I just think it's so cute that Odysseus sees all these suitors for Helen and is like, "I can use this." Sure, it would've been nice to be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, but Penelope had his whole heart.
@BurttheBard2 жыл бұрын
I can’t properly explain how much, after all these years, I absolutely love that Red still has Odysseus dressed like Snake. It makes me SO happy.
@femoman Жыл бұрын
"Really it's a happy ending for no one". Honestly this is one of the few things the movie Troy got right: the feeling during the sacking that, really, nobody is coming out looking good or heroic. Especially in the directors cut where they put more emphasis on the rape and infanticide bit of the sacking...yeesh..
@zainmudassir2964 Жыл бұрын
True
@mythologistthe92nd2 жыл бұрын
I feel so bad for Cassandra in the background, in a perpetual state of panicked mental breakdown from knowing what will happen and all the horrible steps along the way and never being able to do anything to stop it... :(
@plinfan65412 жыл бұрын
She should have used reverse talk the entire time. Cassandra: "Yeah, bring in the wooden horse, it is definitly not a trap" Troyans: "Yeah right, their is Cassandra with her wierd talk again. Obviously the Horse is a Tr..Oh Shit!"
@tortis63422 жыл бұрын
It only gets worse for Cass after the Illiad. Look it up; it'll ruin your day. I blame Apollo.
@Kelaiah01 Жыл бұрын
@@tortis6342 While I certainly do feel bad for Cassandra, I don't know if Apollo should be blamed. After all, Cassandra said she would sleep with him if he gave her the gift of prophecy, but then went back on what she said after he gave her said gift. That meant 3 things: -Apollo is the god of many domains, including truth: Cassandra basically *lied* to the *god of truth*. -Breaking an oath is considered a serious deal back in those days (while Cassandra's promise to sleep with him might not be considered an oath, it was still a promise, pretty closely associated) -She tricked/made a fool of a god; how can that *ever* be a good idea? So really, while Cassandra didn't deserve the tragedy that befell her, she brought Apollo's curse on herself. But another thing I find interesting is that Apollo fought on the Trojan's side during the war. He was basically on Cassandra's side the whole time... although why he didn't try to help her during the sack of Troy, I don't know. Maybe it had to do with Zeus ordering the gods not to interfere. Apollo did already go against those orders once when he helped kill Achilles, so maybe he was under closer watch by Zeus?
@mobgabriel1767Ай бұрын
@@Kelaiah01 frankly apollo isnt responsible for most of cassandra's torment, he cursed her yes but he isnt responsible for the trojan war wich was the biggest source of her torment(you can blame that on a lot of people but not on him) and as far as i know he left her alone after that, heck he even helped the trojans(and was one of the most pro trojan gods from the looks of the video) going as far as to take out aquilles either directly or througt paris
@Kelaiah01Ай бұрын
@@mobgabriel1767 That's right!
@SpurgeonGeneral462 жыл бұрын
“Literature and art nowadays is far too emotional” The Iliad: first word literally being wrath
@bobthegamingtaco60732 жыл бұрын
You mean ancient greece isn't considered nowadays anymore? Dammit, I really need to catch up with the youth... is Pliny the Younger still popular?
@screaming_cat20072 жыл бұрын
Me:*Opens Iliad* Also me: Why do I hear boss music?
@SpurgeonGeneral462 жыл бұрын
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 sadly he has entered his flop era in my opinion
@starmaker752 жыл бұрын
Everything too Emo and angsty ancient literature: angsty about sin and existence about being in a world of gods
@nowhereman60192 жыл бұрын
Who has ever said that "Literature and art nowadays is far to emotional"?
@Jebbtube2 жыл бұрын
In Paris' defense, he was forced to choose between three ultra powerful, spiteful goddesses, so there was no way this was gonna turn out well for him.
@kayeka41232 жыл бұрын
I actually kinda respect him for his choice. He was offered power, glory or love, and he choose love. Because Paris was a simple dude who knew what made life worth living, and it wasn't crushing responsibility or slaughter on the battlefield.
@rickkcir21512 жыл бұрын
He could have just gone with Athena’s reward and been a Trojan hero.
@macewindu12 жыл бұрын
@@rickkcir2151 I mean to be king of the world Means you get all of it
@AmryL2 жыл бұрын
The version my Greek teacher told was that Paris wanted to be diplomatic and split the apple, with some mush about the sum of their virtues. Hermes was all "These b*tches are not gonna settle and play nice; the smart game is to take a bribe so you will have at least 1/3 of a good life and someone to pass the blame to".
@TheAssassin6422 жыл бұрын
@@kayeka4123 i would respect that if he didn't already have a wife. So imo fuck 'em
@FiendTheWhacked2 жыл бұрын
I know she wasn't an option but I feel the actual safest bet in the "who gets the apple" choice would be to throw a curveball on everyone & pick Persephone. Like, if you're going to have all the goddesses pissed at you anyway, might as well have the one on your side be Queen of the Underworld.
@Blokewood32 жыл бұрын
Persephone might be ticked off at you if you did that, because she never asked to be dragged into this argument.
@FiendTheWhacked2 жыл бұрын
@@Blokewood3 Well if nothing else I've succeeded in making Eris happier.
@Richforce1 Жыл бұрын
Part of me thinks he did that on purpose to start the war. Knowing his parents wanted to kill him because he'd destroy Tory and just loving Hector more he took Helen, while he still had a wife, in order to start the war that would destroy Troy as revenge by becoming the destroyer they feared he was.
@leeh4669 Жыл бұрын
It's explicit that other goddesses didn't join in. Like Demeter was fully there and so was Artemis, Paris could have picked one of them. Or Hestia, she was also present. But those three (like Persephone) had the common sense to stay tf out of the drama. I also think that it's sort of related to power proximity amongst the gods: Hera is Zeus' wife, but he cheats on her, Athena is his favorite daughter, but was part of a coup to overthrow him, and Aphrodite is the only being who can make Zeus lose control through making him fall in love, and is sometimes called his most beautiful daughter (if her mother is Dione). So it's a stepmother and her stepdaughters all fighting for acknowledgement from the toxic mess that is Zeus.
@nara9404 Жыл бұрын
@@leeh4669 but persephone and Artemis are also hera's stepdaughters
@claran36162 жыл бұрын
I've noticed your art getting more detailed, even in Trope talks. Don't think we haven't! It's cool.
@pintsizedpicasso34022 жыл бұрын
The way she draws light has especially improved!
@blythebigcatbiologist36572 жыл бұрын
My favorite goddess is Eris and this whole war being started by her not receiving a wedding invite is just perfect. Also, to me a least, this also kinda put her up there with the most powerful gods as she played the others for puppets and got away without a scratch. But again she is my favorite so I might just be showing heavy favoritism.
@AnEnormousNerd2 жыл бұрын
Odysseus shows that power means nothing compared to cunning. And Eris is cunning.
@worthlesshuman50412 жыл бұрын
It depends on who you ask but generally Odysseus is seen to be descended from Hermes (hemes->autolycos->anticlia->odysseus)
@omarsalem12192 жыл бұрын
She is also the best dreamworks villain
@blythebigcatbiologist36572 жыл бұрын
The movie that introduced the world to the Petty Queen she is. And I will forever be thankful
@SeraphimCramer2 жыл бұрын
@The Adventurer That doesn't make you a weird kid. Unless you also threw rocks in a pond to see how big the ripples are in a metaphorical sense, & you mean that, as a child, you also kicked off a major war for the lulz
@SirRadington2 жыл бұрын
In fairness, Agamemnon threatening Odysius's son to get him to join the war was probably the ONE smart thing that guy did, since Odysius is probably the one guy in that war with a brain
@DemonicsInc2 жыл бұрын
Ok but the guy is really lucky he didn't get murdered after doing that. Ngl woulda thrown him overboard the moment he and I were alone and not told anyone
@jee6442 жыл бұрын
@@DemonicsInc fun fact, there's actually a version where Palamedes is the one that threatens his son, so later Odysseus frames him by forging a letter that was supposedly from Priam to Palamedes and buries trojan treasure in Palamedes' camp. The Achaeans deem him a traitor so they stone him to death
@sultanmalik980811 ай бұрын
Agamemnon knew he was lying though. And Odysseus was trying to weasel out of going through with HIS PLAN
@lckyminer_22567 ай бұрын
Yeah, but it is still a dick move on his part.
@Citra_1887 ай бұрын
@@jee644 oh I've seen someone made an animatic of that!
@LobsterEmbodiment Жыл бұрын
9:33 backhanding a man that hard while depressed is impressive.
@donnguyen11072 жыл бұрын
Eris showing up at Peleus and Thetis’ wedding and rolling the ball (or apple in this case) that gets their son killed gives me so many Maleficent vibes. Eris: “Well, quite a glittering assemblage king Peleus. Royalty, nobility, divinities and…(looks at Hera, Athena and Aphrodite and laughs) how quaint. Even the rabble” “I really felt quite distressed at not receiving an invitation” Everyone: “You weren’t wanted” Eris: “Not wa…oh dear what an awkward situation. I had hoped it was merely due to some oversight. Well in that event I’d best be on my way” Peleus: “And you’re not offended your excellency?” Eris: “Why no your majesty. And to show I bear no ill-will, I too shall bestow a gift for your wedding.” “LISTEN WELL ALL OF YOU! (takes out the apple) With this apple I give to the fairest one of all…but the fairest one shall be up to you to dispute” (laughs evilly)
@rock216112 жыл бұрын
Excellent adaptation of the script, very nicely done.
@erin80502 жыл бұрын
There's a theory out there somewhere that if the king and queen had apologized and invited Maleficent to stay she would have given Aurora some banger gifts which would just escilate as the faeries try to one up each other and show off. And honestly? I can see your Eris doing the same thing (banger presents evolving into a passive aggressive present war).
@donnguyen11072 жыл бұрын
@@erin8050 Some Sleeping Beauty film adaptations I've seen have the evil fairy's curse also as a statement of her superior power to the other fairies.
@orph3us.the.artist2 жыл бұрын
I can actually picture a scene with Eris from Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas actually having this dialogue and it's perfect lol. Catherine Zeta-Jones would kill it for sure!
@Punaparta2 жыл бұрын
@علي ياسر *She *daughter
@such_a_dork2 жыл бұрын
"I thought you wanted to marry my daughter." "Yes, but I'm also not stupid." I don't know why this made me laugh as much as it did.
@MaxWelton Жыл бұрын
“[not being stupid’s] kind of my whole thing” is the icing on the cake
@matthewmuir88842 жыл бұрын
*Penelope:* "Agamemnon, my husband can't take part in the war; he's gone mad!" *Agamemnon:* "Has he actually gone mad, or has he put underwear on his head, two pencils up his nose, and started saying, 'Wibble'?" *Penelope:* "Um..." Later that day: *Odysseus:* Whatever your plan was, Penelope, I'm sure it was better than mine. (looks at the fleet around him) ...I mean; who would've noticed another madman around here?"
@oldrabbit82902 жыл бұрын
Odysseus should consult a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University before trying that ploy..
@pckbread75432 жыл бұрын
The frame where Achilles scares the holy shit out of agamemnon is gem I busted out laughing because that's basically a good representation of how their dynamic will kinda be in the war
@sasstrash3162 жыл бұрын
Dang, Red if you did a dramatic reading of the Iliad with music like you had at the beginning I’d listen to it all the time. Gave me literal chills.
@anonymousfellow88792 жыл бұрын
Honestly if all of OSP decided to voiceact a dramatic reading that would be dope.
@bluesbest12 жыл бұрын
"Red Reads Classics" audiobook when?
@expectopaturtle91372 жыл бұрын
They probably can't. Disney probably owns the copyright by now...
@iwannareadforever81852 жыл бұрын
Yes this needs to be a thing
@bluesbest12 жыл бұрын
@@expectopaturtle9137 How...how could they claim copyright on a story that's literally thousands of years old? Oh, wait, that's their entire brand, isn't it?
@commanderjonas55282 жыл бұрын
One of my personal favorite takes from the trojan war was that it actually portrays Zeus in a pretty decent light. He knew it would split the pantheon if he choose a goddess to have the apple so he made sure someone else could handle it(seems irresponsible until you realize just how bad it would have gone if he had picked anyone) He ordered the gods not to interfere with the war to make it a conflict between mortals, and yet everyone seemed to disobey it. He either stayed neutral or switched sides to try and keep the pantheon from falling to pieces. He only allowed to gods to interfere near the end when he got sick of them disobeying him, so he just wanted to war to end fast. If you think about it, Zeus was the straight man of the conflict.
@corhydrae32382 жыл бұрын
Maybe Eris' true goal was creating a conflict so immense that even the mightiest dickhead of them all would be forced to get his shit together for once.
@omarsalem12192 жыл бұрын
"zeus was The straight man of the conflict" that's a depressing thought
@commanderjonas55282 жыл бұрын
@@omarsalem1219 It is... Sadly.
@bthsr71132 жыл бұрын
... oh Chaos, you're right. He was being level headed and Artemis was at times being impulsive and petty. Madness.
@paxtheskeleton66362 жыл бұрын
When the most sensible guy of the pantheon in that situation is ZEUS you know how terrible things can get…personally if I was given the choice instead of Paris I would book my ass outta there. The last thing I want is to piss off ANY of them.
@quintussertorius44472 жыл бұрын
The best scene in the Iliad for me is always the bit with Hector talking to his wife with their son. His son getting scared of his father’s helmet after Hector talks about how he had to learn to be good at war but doesn’t want to be a warrior is beautiful and heartbreaking.
@woodrobin Жыл бұрын
There's an excellent bit of acting in the otherwise hard-to-watch movie Troy: Sean Bean, as Odysseus, overhears one of the other Greek leaders saying they'll never end the siege, because the walls of Troy are impenetrable, and the Trojans have more food within than they can gather from without. He's mulling over it, and is momentarily distracted by the fellow across from him whittling. Oddyseus asks the unnamed warrior what he's making, and he says it's a horse he's going to take home to his daughter. Oddyseus' face gets thoughtful, then he breaks out in a huge grin, and then he looks profoundly sad. Without one line of dialog, Sean Bean portrays the emotions Odysseus goes through as he first comes up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, and then thinks through what's going to happen if the plan succeeds. He realizes he's come up with a way to win the war, and a way to doom the Trojans to rape and slaughter with the Greeks under the command of Agamemnon, and his joy in his own cleverness is immediately snuffed out -- by his own cleverness.
@strubberyg74512 жыл бұрын
I would like to talk a bit about the "Agamemnon threatens Odysseus' child" a bit: In the version of the legend I heard, Odysseus had pretended to go mad mainly by acting like an ox and plowing the fields. Agamemnon took Odysseus' newly born child and put it in the field. By stopping in his tracks, Odysseus admitted that he was still capable. I brought up this story because it shows that Agamemnon is pretty dang smart. He trick Odysseus, the smartest of the fighting kings. But being smart isn't all. Odysseus applied his intellect to solve a crisis that could be a prequel to the Trojan Wars - Bride Wars. He's not innocent, but most of the tricks he uses are for peaceful means. The one trick Agamemnon uses is used so someone could go to a war, not to mention the trick itself is just... cold. Even when he's smart he's being the worst...
@aliceinwonderbruh64337 ай бұрын
I'd heard Ody yoked an ox & donkey together, started sowing salt, and not driving straight. the messenger stuck telemachus in front of Odysseus, and Ody goes around. with his trick foiled, he then gets dragged off to Troy
@Graycata5 ай бұрын
@@aliceinwonderbruh6433I heard that version too. That messenger unfortunately was part of the war in Odysseus got him framed for treason and stoned
@Karak-_-2 жыл бұрын
Since "Curse of house of Atreus" was mentioned, I think it worthy to mention where that curse originated: Tantalos and his son Pelopos. Tantalos got cursed by the gods for stealing nectar, ambrosia and the golden dog, and serving them his own son as a test if they are all-knowing. Pelopos got cursed by a servant who helped him to get his wife by sabotaging her fathers chariot.
@merrittanimation77212 жыл бұрын
And then the Atreus of the house's name fed his nephews to his brother Thyestes after Thyestes had sex with Atreus's wife.
@Karak-_-2 жыл бұрын
@@merrittanimation7721 Yea, that whole bloodline was cursed to be full really awful people.
@EndanDrachon2 жыл бұрын
So Odysseus just wanted to get a good referral to help him get with Penelope, and proceeded to get dragged into the Trojan War. Which he ultimately won for the Greeks with his cunning. Man I love that guy.
@alyssaagnew41472 жыл бұрын
I think he probably realized that having a wife that beautiful was just going to lead to problems down the line. Better to have a less pretty, but loyal wife that is quite clever herself.
@marioxzzz2 жыл бұрын
He also started the war by coming up with the whole "honor bound to go to war if somehitng happens to the marriage" thing. Hubris and Greek heroes are my favourite genre
@EndanDrachon2 жыл бұрын
@@marioxzzz Not his fault someone was stupid enough to kidnap Helen. He probably thought no one would be stupid enough to try.
@michaellohmeier64272 жыл бұрын
Let's be honest: when Odysseus ropped everyone in on that blood oath shit he thought :,, Not eve the gods are stupid enough to start a full fledged war with the entirty of Greece only for their drama." Well, let me tell you this Odysseus: Zeus fucked a woman as an ant. If the bar is that low, you can pretty much expect everything from those inbreed maniacs.
@ari_dexel42882 жыл бұрын
Man’s the just enough type of smart where he’s clever enough to get out of problems but not clever enough to avoid getting stuck/causing them lol
@tiffanyle61042 жыл бұрын
Not sure if anyone has talked about this yet, but Oenone have more reasons to let Paris die than just being abandoned. They had a son together; emphasis on HAD. Depending on the versions, he was sent to Troy and was smitten by Helen, causing Paris to kill him in jealousy even before knowing that was his child. He deserved that arrow. Too bad some versions says that Oenone committed suicide after refusing to save him, cause she can do much better.
@nara9404 Жыл бұрын
I mean Paris didn't know....
@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache2 жыл бұрын
*Greeks:* "The Trojans have the gods on their side! Apollo is raining arrows from the sky! Do we have enough resources to maintain a decade-long war?" *Odysseus:* "Absolutely." *points to headband* "Infinite ammo." It wasn't until I saw the headband and them mentioning of Metal Gear that I realized Odysseus was a Snake reference. But that was some fancy drawing. You're pretty good.
@jasondoe25962 жыл бұрын
And he chooses to hide in a box, LOL (6:16).
@a.h.s.30062 жыл бұрын
You should watch Red's old video on the Illiad. The Illiad had a literal stealth mission and she decided to make Ody Solid Snake. It was very hilarious.
@GearShotgun2 жыл бұрын
The joke actually started in Reds original Trojan war video where he was in a “stealth mission” of sorts.
@antitheist32062 жыл бұрын
So to recap: The trojan war is the fault of several important characters, including Aphrodite, Odysseus, Paris, and Menelaus. But not Helen.
@coffeewolfproductions91132 жыл бұрын
Its basically everyone's fault but Helen. (Also you forgot Aganemnom since he killed his own daughter to get this trainwreck rolling in the first place)
@antitheist32062 жыл бұрын
@@coffeewolfproductions9113 It wasn't Patroclus' fault. He was just there to fight alongside his hetero-lifepartner Achilles. But really, I didn't list everyone because I didn't feel like including some of them.
@coffeewolfproductions91132 жыл бұрын
@@antitheist3206 Yeah thats fair
@coltonwilliams41532 жыл бұрын
Odysseus is barely at fault. The pact was originally to prevent this kind of war from happening in the first place. He couldn’t have foreseen an idiot like Paris intentionally kicking a dozen hornet nests like this.
@antitheist32062 жыл бұрын
@@coltonwilliams4153 Really? A genius couldn't foresee that a dumbass would mess things up in a world where every state basically hated everyone else? Seriously, it doesn't take a deep thinker like Odysseus to figure out that this was a terrible idea.
@annem46552 жыл бұрын
Finally, someone covered how much of a badass Penthesilea was. She was so underrated bc she's just another short-lived Amazonian warrior/queen on the Trojan's side, and everyone only care about Hector from the Trojan's side. That's also why I made a vase and am writing a short story about her.
@theredmenace222 жыл бұрын
omg someone else who knows Her Supreme Badassness! I would absolutely love to see your creative endeavors!
@reyonXIII2 жыл бұрын
Just don't call her "beautiful" or anything of the sort. She will go berserk.
@crocidile902 жыл бұрын
@@reyonXIII I see you too are a Master of culture as well....... I somehow got carrot man and am only missing Odysseus, Penth and the Dioscuri to complete my Trojan era greek collection. (don't really care for Europa gameplay wise)
@Master_E4442 жыл бұрын
@@reyonXIII I get that reference
@Master_E4442 жыл бұрын
Honestly we need a full video just diving into some examination of the Amazon's, the big names among them, their portrayal, and their relationship with the gods. Me and a friend pointed out that Ares is surprisingly one of the most Egalitarian Gods in the Pantheon given he was the Patron God of Sparta and the Amazons, two groups that treated women far better then the rest of Greece. Plus his positive relationship with the most traditionally feminine god in the Pantheon.
@blankahegyi55616 ай бұрын
9:56 I just noticed that a re-acuring trait of Poseidon is that he gets pissed if if someone hurts one of his kids.