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As I posted yesterday, The Odyssey and The Iliad (both by “Homer”) provided a lot of inspiration for elements in Game of Thrones and both works were part of my post-Game of Thrones reading and writing journey.  The Odyssey film comes out on Friday but (partly to avoid spoilers for anyone intending to see the film but not familiar with The Odyssey) I wanted to first post this piece about The Iliad (and the movie “Troy”) which takes place before The Odyssey.  The Iliad primarily focuses on Achilles and a few other characters (including Odysseus, the main character of The Odyssey) during a short period towards the end of the Trojan War.  
I definitely found Game of Thrones parallels and connections in The Odyssey, but aspects of The Iliad (and the making of “Troy”) seemed particularly inspirational to the creators of Game of Thrones.  As I wrote in the article: “In reading this often graphically violent tale and exploring the key characters, events, and important themes, it becomes increasingly clear that The Iliad and its related lore have influenced the creators of Game of Thrones, their writing, and their stories.”
I hope you find some of these Homer/Game of Thrones connections as interesting as I did.

Hello Naath Community.
Most of us are probably focused on House of the Dragon this month but I want to direct everyone's attention to another Game of Thrones related media event taking place this week: The release of Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey.

What does The Odyssey have to do with Game of Thrones? Quite a lot I have learned.
Watching Game of Thrones in the 2010s was an amazing experience for me and I credit it for many things including rekindling my interest in fantasy and epic fiction in general. When the show ended, I felt drawn to explore whether classic works (which I had never read) had any conceptual ties to Game of Thrones. I read and took discussion courses on The Odyssey in 2021, Herodotus in 2022, The Iliad in 2023, and then various Greek Myths in 2024.  It became quickly apparent to me that The Odyssey and The Iliad (both by “Homer”) provided a lot of inspiration for elements in Game of Thrones and I have written a few pieces about the connections between the stories which I will post here in the days ahead.  I hope everyone finds them interesting.

About 5 weeks ago, I published a long post here called "Major Media Companies Confirm Dead Internet Theory is True" which described a report from a major media trade group that essentially described how online accounts, content, and advertising platforms were at least half fake. As an internet marketing guy (see above referenced long post), I have my finger on the pulse of some of these facts and figures that prove dead internet theory.

We just crossed another major milestone: According to Cloudflare (a global cloud platform company) Bot traffic has passed human traffic online for the first time. (The X post from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is above. He thought this would happen in 2027, but it happened NOW.)

From Evolving AI Insights newsletter:

Cloudflare's network covers roughly one in five websites which makes its data a fair proxy for the wider internet. Bots sat near 20 percent of requests before the AI boom and most of that was search crawlers quietly indexing pages. The new wave grew about eight times faster than human activity over the past year as agents took over browsing tasks people once handled themselves. One AI agent can hit 5,000 sites where a human would visit five.

So with Bot traffic exceeding human traffic, Dead Internet is no longer a theory-- it's reality.