{"id":1392986,"date":"2016-09-09T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1392986"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:48:29","slug":"blogging-the-odyssey-part-2-the-one-where-we-find-out-what-the-hell-even-happened-to-odysseus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-2-the-one-where-we-find-out-what-the-hell-even-happened-to-odysseus\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging The Odyssey<\/em>: Part 2 (The One Where We Find Out What the Hell Even Happened to Odysseus)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In case you missed it<\/a>, \u00a0I’m Elodie \u00a0and \u00a0I’m blogging The Odyssey<\/em>, a book that is very heavy. \u00a0Guys, it’s so heavy. I have dainty spaghetti arms and no upper arm strength. I am Suffering.<\/p>\n

Luckily for you<\/em>, however, you don’t have to lug this book around; you can leave it in your bedroom, or your locker, or your underground witch dungeon \u00a0(I don’t know where you keep your books), because I’ll be summarizing the boring stuff with hilarious quips and recycled memes. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

BOOK 3: King Nestor Remembers<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Telemachus and Athena \u00a0are ever going to find Odysseus, they’ll need to do some serious sleuthing. They \u00a0visit King Nestor, who fought alongside \u00a0Odysseus during the Trojan War. Telemachus asks Nestor where Odysseus might be, \u00a0and Nestor begins what will become a trend of people telling us instead where Odysseus is not. He says what amounts to “Your father is not here, Telemachus. He is also not in any of these other places. Presumably, however, he is somewhere. Maybe the afterlife. He could be dead, I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

Nestor tells us about the war. He drops some pretty heavy names, like Achilles, greatest of the Greeks, and Ajax, the other greatest of the Greeks. Kind of seems like they’ll just let anyone be the greatest of the Greeks, doesn’t it? He also mentions Diomedes, breaker of horses, which is weird, because we’re told Nestor is also the breaker of horses.<\/p>\n

Sidebar: this is the problem with ancient honor culture. There are only so many epithets you can dish out \u00a0before you have to start recycling old ones. \u00a0It would be like:<\/p>\n