Are you an Iliad or an Odyssey type human?!1

[UTUSN]

To me, the Iliad is SO personal, the dude coming back from ten yrs war to a FAITHFUL wife who personally knitted and unknitted that danged sweater

[laconicsax]

1. I thought it was a woven burial shroud...

[UTUSN]

3. Uh, she was waiting for him to come back, no? n/t

[laconicsax]

7. She'd heard that he was dead, but was holding out hope.

As a ploy to fend off the horde of suitors, she told them that she wouldn't marry any of them until she finished whatever it was she was weaving (I can't remember if it was a burial shroud for her father or something stupid like a tapestry). Not wanting to actually marry them (and give Odysseus more time in case he was alive), she would unweave what she'd accomplished each night.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Don Quixote

Like all Hispanics, I am an "atravezado". Crosswise to the universe.

[UTUSN]

5. Me, too. Idiosyncratic, me (and you, thanks for you)

There's an anecdote about some peasant/whomever sitting on the curb of a street reading da book and laughing and a passerby says, "He's reading 'Don Quixote' . "

[dimbear]

4. Out driving the other day, heard a siren, unthinkingly lashed myself to the mast. n/t

[UTUSN]

6. So, you're an Od?!1 n/t

[dimbear]

8. The idea of Penelope's longterm loyalty appeals to me. Always have loved

fantasy.

[UTUSN]

11. Sorry 'bout that. n/t

[petronius]

9. Isn't that the Odyssey? The Iliad ust ends with a giant pile of bodies

That said, I'm more of an Aeneid type of human...

[UTUSN]

10. Uh, no? Well the dead bodies suitors?!1 n/t

[petronius]

15. Am I missing a joke? Odysseus returning to Penelope is the Odyssey

The Iliad ends with the death and burial of Hector (the Trojan Horse and the end of the war is described in the Aeneid).

You're not going to make me get up and check the bookshelf, are you?

[UTUSN]

17. No, I'm old. My memory synapses are worthless. I guess *this* messes the whole O.P. n/t

[Generic Brad]

12. Iliad = Mary, Odyssey = Rhoda

I'm fairly certain of that.

[UTUSN]

13. No, Rhoda, don't dump Joe. (Was that his name?) n/t

[Generic Brad]

14. It was!

[pokerfan]

16. Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh, a king. At Uruk. He tormented his subjects. He made them angry. They cried out aloud, "Send us a companion for our king! Spare us from his madness!" Enkidu, a wild man... from the forest, entered the city. They fought in the temple. They fought in the streets. Gilgamesh defeated Enkidu. They became great friends. Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk. The new friends went out into the desert together, where the Great Bull of Heaven was killing men by the hundreds. Enkidu caught the Bull by the tail. Gilgamesh struck him with his sword. They were victorious. But Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods. And Gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying, "He who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever."

[UTUSN]

18. Wow. And *not* being flip. So sad. A sentiment like a YEATS poem (or was it a play?)

(Something like) We ate from the one pot, covered with the one blanket.


Unlike you, I'll have to look it up.

[pokerfan]

21. Pretty much

That's the reader's digest version. Here's the complete text:

http://public.wsu.edu/~gened/orpheus/orpheus_gilgamesh.htm

[csziggy]

19. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

[csziggy]

20. I sort of like the Odyssey but not for the ending

For me, the trip was more important than the destination.

[UTUSN]

22. See posts 15 & 17. I pretty much messed up the whole thing. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

23. I don't care for any of those foreign brands, I'm a Ford man.