>Finally decide to give it a read because of the new movie>The monsters and journey are only 3 chapters and most of the book is about Odysseus coming home in disguise.Why has this story been bastardized so much?
Hollywood wants to put the classics through a humiliation ritual
>>25284528Yeah, I reread it recently and was surprised. The cyclops is one chapter. The lotus eaters are a couple of lines, as are the sirens. Scylla and Charybdis are just a mention. There's more of him hanging out with the Phaeacians and killing suitors than the monsters. I think it's also what people legitimately remember about it though. I had read it before and still mostly just remembered monsters.
>>25284646I've read it as a kid and the only thing I remember is the bow stringing contest
>>25284528Three quarters of the decade long return trip is spent being femdomed by Calypso. Adaptations barely bother mentioning it.
>>25284528The cyclops part is simply more enthralling and easy to make exciting for film than what amounts to 20 chapters of political intrigue.
I suppose it's sort of like Morgenstern's The Princess Bride (the unabridged version). Most of the book is a history of the region, but people only really remember the adventure. I think that people just like that kind of story and care less about eg political intrigue etc, such as Odysseus hanging out and killing all those guys for his wife and son. It certainly makes a movie more appealing to the masses, though I'd love to see an adaptation focused on after he returns and is dealing with everything back home.
>>25284528The real reason is that Swords & Sorcery style fiction heavy borrowed from the monsters, which lead to D&D heavily borrowing from them, which lead to video games heavily borrowing from them. So much of people's idea of mystical creatures is just D&D and LOTR because video game developers have so much control over culture, but zero imagination.
>>25284528>>25284646and it's all a flashback
>>25284528That seems to be a pattern with famous works. Don Quixote’s encounter with the windmill is approximately 1 page very early in the novel (basically a footnote compared to his other adventures) yet that’s what gets remembered.
>>25284733That's a sick cover.>$180Nvm lol.
>>25285857You have to wonder how much it's just people starting the book and reading about ten pages and then giving up. So the stuff from the first ten pages is what gets remembered.
>>25284646the killing the suitors part is actually good tho
>>25284528It's a poem based on what was (more or less) considered closer to historical record in the Little Illiad. We can presume that the individual islands are more important originally, but Homer's poem focuses on drawing a moral out of the story, hence it being largely about homecoming, xenia, and sins against the homestead.
