Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
May. 15th, 2004 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyI am massively depressed by the reviews of Troy that I am reading. Not just because the movie sounds like shite (one *does not* cut the gods - this is hubris on a scale that begs for lightning bolts, just like the Passion), but because it's becoming depressingly clear that Classical literature just isn't making the best-seller lists nowadays. Ack. I know that I'm a specialized geek in a lot of ways, and when people look at me blankly for abbreviating Little Red Riding Hood to LRRH, or, worse, AT 333, I'm fine with that. But c'mon ... it's HOMER. Our educational system is down the tubes, past the gate, and in the sewer.
Moving away from my bizarre scholarly rant (I mean, one reason that I'm going into academia is because there's just stuff out there that I think everyone should read, and I want to be in a position to force them to do so) I should also point out that, naturally, think a lot of people who are loving the movie are slashers. Everyone is, of course, picking up on the obvious tension between Achilles and Patrokles. Lovely. But if you read the original, you get to read about the cross-dressing ... s'all I'm saying.
Moving away from my bizarre scholarly rant (I mean, one reason that I'm going into academia is because there's just stuff out there that I think everyone should read, and I want to be in a position to force them to do so) I should also point out that, naturally, think a lot of people who are loving the movie are slashers. Everyone is, of course, picking up on the obvious tension between Achilles and Patrokles. Lovely. But if you read the original, you get to read about the cross-dressing ... s'all I'm saying.