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Sep 2019
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Odysseus and a Sea of Suitors' Blood (Th...

Liv Albert
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Odysseus is fed up, it's time for the suitors to die.

 

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

 

Sources: The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson.

 

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