u/Epistaxis
Is it okay if an older man needs a younger man to help him manipulate his organ? What if he's incapable of performing otherwise?
Presented by the US Department of State at the international AIDS2026 conference
What did Greeks in the Homeric era think about the Late Bronze Age Collapse?
In Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of The Odyssey, some characters worry that their entire civilization may soon fall, with the collapse of the palace economy and of writing, possibly because of raids by Sea Peoples. My understanding is this theme is an invention of Nolan and wasn't in the Homeric version of the epic, but my question is: could it have been?
Maybe non-legendary Mycenaean Greeks couldn't have seen the Late Bronze Age Collapse coming in their own time, but the preserved version of The Odyssey we have today dates from centuries after the story would have taken place. How did Greeks in the age of Homer (if he existed) interpret how their society had changed over those preceding centuries, the Greek Dark Ages? Did they even perceive it as a collapse? If so, did they blame Sea Peoples?