@CptHastings1916 There is nothing in The Odyssey film as good as the Talos scene.
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Robin Ward
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@cath_cov It’s inspired a summer of re-reading for me - Dante, Homer, Milton, Camoẽs, Beowulf, Gawain poet. The Lusiads so far my favourite. Spenser next.
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I reached my mid-50s without reading The Odyssey. Then I decided to read it before seeing the film. Yes, a middle-aged dad thing. My 18 year old son, however, did the same - a student of Business Studies who has never encountered the classics throughout his education.
Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour
From a classicist's viewpoint, the most wonderful thing about the Nolan extravaganza is that millions of people who only knew of Homer as a Simpson are now interested in Homer, and might even think of reading the Odyssey and learning something about Greek antiquity.
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@johnmilbank3 @Logocentrist Britain as Hanover to North America.
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More and more British commentators are questioning the validity and wisdom of the US’s break from Britain. From the outset historical and political bonds were arbitrarily denied and a discourse of Republican casting of outsiders as enemies was adopted. newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
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@DrFrancisYoung @mellowdramatic These are probably people converted to Hinduism by reading too much David Bentley Hart.
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@mellowdramatic I find it very surprising, as only a small fraction of modern pagans are polytheists!
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I’d be intrigued to know who these polytheist ordinands are and what it is they believe 🤔
Mrs Berry@exceeding_love
Yesterday’s Church Times seems to confirm that DDOs will do *anything* to avoid selecting candidates with historic Anglican beliefs, including selecting polytheists for ordained ministry in our Church.
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@nassaujuan It was a French government sponsored chantier scheme for sixth formers to work at historic sites.
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The old gatehouse and prison of Châteauroux, now a “residential property.”
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@DrRobinWard @tc1415 @davidtorrance What does "professing" mean in the act?
Because he definitely doesn't profess the Roman Catholic Religion from the perspective of the church.
He openly rejects catholic bioethics.
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Also, who is going to advise the King on ecclesiastical appointments, because Burnham surely is precluded by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1828.......
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During Starmer’s tenure we passed the milestone of more living former prime ministers than frigates.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
The test of any Prime Minister is: do you leave your country in a better place than you found it? I’m proud that the answer is yes.
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@EdwardShawcross It’s a long journey but Penelope will be waiting up for you.
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I'd go and see the Odyssey, but I'm worried about getting home afterwards.
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@tc1415 @davidtorrance That he self-identifies as RC. Apparently so as not to upset his mother.
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@gnocchiwizard I agree. I think the Fagles has really dated and the control of the diction was never very good.
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Nolan's Odyssey is a real triumph. Is it entirely faithful to the text? No. Is it a piece of cinematic excellence that can both provoke and startle at times? Yes. Well worth a watch.
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@MinooFramroze Must include an Alfred Duggan style scene attending a Latin rite High Mass in the Parthenon, while enraged prozymites grind their teeth outside.
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The Odyssey set 1204-16. The Breton petty seigneur and occasional routier Eudes d’Ythaque masterminds the sack of Constantinople, develops a complex relationship with the Theotokos and is cursed by St Demetrius. After losing a couple of Aegean fiefdoms he is granted an Irish fief
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Maybe the real treasure was the friends Odysseus made along the way.
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Interesting to read in Pastor's life of Urban VIII that John Milton accepted an invitation to dine at the English College when visiting Rome in 1638. I imagine it as a somewhat awkward experience, on both sides.
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I heard a new hymn yesterday (well, new to me; some of you will have been singing it for 3yrs), and I'm increasingly left wondering where the accusation that there's no theology in contemporary music comes from.
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The most annoying thing about Odysseus were the reef points on the sails.
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