The reason Odysseus looks like that because of the long running gag that started on her first troy video is that he is basically Snake from MetalGear hence the headband

Don’t forget, cassandra was cursed to have nobody believe her. Odysseus went by the name nobody. He would believe her. He should have just adopted her

2 things, because I am a greek mythology nerd: - Agamemnon didn't just pulled a knife in front of Odysseus' child, he straight up took the baby and placed it in front of his father as he was plowing the fields: Odysseus dropped the act so he wouldn't kill HIS OWN SON. - Agamemnon was killed by his wife as soon as he got home from the war: a version says during a bath, in another during a feast.

The reason why no one believed what Cassandra said was because she was an oracle serving under Apollo, who rejected his advances. Insulted that his own oracle of all people rejected him, Apollo cursed Cassandra so that no one would believe her when she told the truth To be fair for Paris, he was screwed over no matter which goddess he chose. If Aphrodite wasn't chosen, she would have made him fall in love with a monster, and have him killed that way, and the other one who was not chosen would screw him over later in life too. There was a reason why Zeus of all people did not want to choose between the three, one of which being his own wife

So Red’s video on the Iliad is the first drawn video. To follow the Troy saga it goes: The Iliad, The Odyssey, the Aeneid, and the Oresteia. I also recommend Medea, it’s great. The reference to Psyche when Helen was born was because Psyche was a princess said to be more beautiful than Aphrodite, which caused a whole a bunch of problems. She has a video on it that’s great: Eros and Psyche.

Regarding the Buddycop of Cassandra and Odysseus, Cassandra was cursed to have nobody believe her. And Odysseus is Nobody, so he probably would be able to believe her. Which might also be really funny shenanigans.

You're going to learn this when you see the Illiad, but in OSP.. Odysseus is literally Solid Snake, hence why he's hiding in a box... because Snake hides in a box. And yes, Troy exists.. An archeologist found it buried in a hill or mountain and he uncovered using the one tool that an archaeologist would never use: ...Dynamite.

I love how according to legend, this whole thing started because a couple goddesses got salty over losing a contest. And don't worry, her video on the Illiad is still on her channel.

cassandra was cursed by apollo to have nobody ever believe her prophecies because she rejected his advances (honestly i think it's pretty hilarious that artemis is celibate by choice and her twin brother is a hopeless romantic who has 9 out of 10 of his relationships end in rejection and the rest in tragedy but that's besides the point) anyways, tumblr has had a lot of fun with the fact that one of the names odysseus is known as is "nobody"

For those looking for a reason why kings and queens in these stories don't just murder the 'chosen-child-destined-to-bring-doom-to-all-those-around-them,' please remember that Greek Mythology had the Furies. Demonic creatures born from the act of betrayal and death of Uranus by his son Cronus, Zeus's grandfather and father respectively. That makes the monsters Zeus's aunts, technically speaking. The Furies punished the worst criminals, but paid particular attention to kin-slayers. And they don't just target the criminal. The criminal's friends, family, and their whole country are all fair game for divine retribution from the monsters birthed by the murder of a being older than gods. It really explains why just abandoning the child in the woods was the preferred option, though it never seemed to work.

To give an idea of why Odysseus constantly looks so DONE with everyone's shit, here is how Red had the man describe himself. "I have actual cognitive faculties. Quite rare among this army."

8:17 Airier: "...in the sense that [Odysseus]... doesn't make the idiot ball a thing." Me: * *Laughs in The Polyphemus Incident* *

If you think a bit about it. Odysseus was really overall the most beloved and respected person in that gang. 1) He was deemed necessary for his tactics 2) He inspired fierce loyalty from his family and a lot of his servants at home even after 20 years. 3) At least two women that were technically lesser goddesses (Circe and Calypso) wanted to have him for themselves.

Agamemnon and Menelaus were brothers and both members of the House of Atreus. Aside from Helen’s abduction and the whole war thing, Menelaus mostly dodged the curse with Agamemnon getting the bulk of it. It might be that Agamemnon was technically the older of the two, so the more senior member which is why he was so nailed by it.

one thing of note that rarely gets brought up, Hector actually tries to mutilate Patroclus body, after stripping him naked, and may have actually succeeded, though, Menelaus and Ajax, who are both quite capable warriors, protect the body. and, when Achilles fights him, Hector actually is wearing Patroclus' clothes, thus why Achilles is so rageful, and drags the body of Hector behind his chariot, and mistreats it, most adaptions remove the former, to make you more sympathetic to Hector, while making it look like disproportionate retribution on Achilles part

The story'd be set in the late Bronze Age, the Mediterranean powers were well aware and traded widely with each other.

12:44 Yeah, something that is a little horrifying to comprehend: Throughout the Trojan War, friggin' ZEUS is actually the voice of reason! Like, you know things have gone straight off the rails when THAT happens!

For those wondering; Troy is not only a real place, but its also a still active archeological site that you can visit, its located in Modern day Turkey on the western coast right across from Greece.

Paris wasn't hit by just any arrow, he was hit by Heracles' hydra poison arrow, the same poison that's exceedingly acidic and fatally poisonous just being close to

As some others have mentioned, the original Troy-video is basically what started the deal with Red drawing most of the footage of all their videos, mainly because there wasn't really any good movies to pull scenes from that actually portrayed the Trojan war accurately. If you look at older videos of theirs, specifically the video on Shakespeares Caesar comes to mind, all of the footage used there is from a movie adaption of the play from like the 60s or 70s I think. Also, pretty sure the Greeks were long aware of Egypt at that point. Egypt is literally a straight shot south across the mediteranean, and the mediteranean sea isn't that huge, in the first place Troy was located along the modern day coast of Turkey, travelling south along the coast will also lead to Egypt. So the trade routes were there, both by land and sea, not to mention with just how old Egypt is, they've also had a lot of time to make a name for themselves in the area. And of course, good old Alexander Iskander the Great also waltzed into Egypt during his conquests and was technically crowned a pharao, that's how the Ptolemeic dynasty that brought forth Cleopatra got started, Ptolemey was Iskanders general that was given reign over Egypt after Iskanders death after all, iirc that was like 350BC., with the Illiad codified around 700BC. from what I recall, marking the end of the Greek Dark Age.

The original Iliad video is definitely lower quality, but if memory serves, it focuses more on a more detailed summary of the actual *war* and is still quite funny My favorite joke from that video is when *Athena* had to come down and PHYSICALLY restrain Achilles to keep him from murdering Agamemnon

0:18 Love the Megamind refrince

Sparta becomes one of the big Greek empire until Thebes actual does something different from convention by shuffling their frontline composition. Blue Has a Video on this.

The thing with the Amazon saying "I came here to flee the Furies and kick ass, and the furies are inescapable" is a reference to "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all outta bubble gum." from John Carpenter's 'They Live', which was later referenced in Duke Nukem.

See, Paris's fundamental mistake was that he *should* have just said; "The most beautiful? You mean from you three, or in general? Because it's _definitely_ not one of you three. Give this to Persephone, it was *obviously* meant for her." And they basically can't do anything worth anything to you at that point. You just scored a metric fuckton of points with freakin' *Hades* so what are they going to do? Kill you? Just send you down to hang out with your new #1 bestest bud in the whole universe? And that's assuming he doesn't just arbitrarily say, "yeah, well, you're free to come and go as you please, cause you're a real bro." You just **can't** go wrong getting the God of the Underworld in your corner.

21:32 Was not Agamemnon, but Palamedes, who put Odysseus's son onto the path of the plow forcing Odysseus to choose between presenting to be insane or his son. Odysseys later got his revenge by framing Palamedes of being bribed by Trojans.

How someone becomes one of the most hated characters in epic mythology: 1. Threatens to kill the baby of the smartest man alive 2. Kills their own child 3. Kidnaps the daughter of a priest without thinking that said priest would ask for some divine retribution 4. Takes away someone else's slave woman thus antagonizing the most powerful fighter in their army 5. Goes home expecting to be welcomed back by the mother of the child he murdered while being accompanied by his new slave woman who keeps shouting prophecies about how they're both definitely about to die (If I missed anything feel free to comment below.)

16:42 Egypt is literally right across from Greece. The Greeks were definitely aware of it, and saw it as a great cultural beacon, even if it was way past its glory days by the time classical Greece flourished in the 400-300s. In fact Plato retconned his Atlantis mythos by saying some older Athenian figure (Solon) had transcribed records about Atlantis from his time in Egypt. Greek or proto-Greek (Mycenaean) mercenaries served in Egyptian armies for centuries, and Mycenaeans may have been among the "Sea Peoples" that ravaged Egypt and other ancient Near Eastern states during the Bronze Age Collapse in the 1200-1100s.

4:50 congratulations, you've had the realisation that a lot of Fate fans have, which is that a franchise that started as a porn game, is actually a halfway decent source of historical and mythological knowledge.

27:00 Would make sense since Nobody listens to her.

I've told this in other circles before, but Zeus literally could have stopped this if he had just chosen Hera. The choice not only appeases Hera, who is not only his wife but the GODDESS of MARRIAGE, but, if he plays his cards right, he can pacify Aphrodite by appealing to her nature as the Goddess of Beauty (Hera was said to be the most beautiful of the Goddesses and that's why Zeus married her). Additionally, he can pacify Athena by appealing to her nature as the Goddess of Wisdom (Hera is quite literally also the most powerful goddess of the Olympians with quite a bit of divine authority behind her, to make a bitter enemy of her is to invite disaster, and implying that the premise of their marriage, her beauty, was a lie could quite literally cost him his queen by nullifying their marriage).

You talking about Dune, in the prequel novel Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, co-written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Andersen, Agamemnon was the name of a cyborg titan in service to the thinking machine Omnius had a son that was made from his genetic material named Vorian Atreides, who would betray his father and the machine overmind to side with the humans.

On the question of leaving kids on mountains or chunking them in the sea in a chest... familicide was a super no-no in the greek religion. Like, one of the handful of things that would have the furies immediately home in on your location. So when these mythical kings needed to get rid of an inconvenient infant they tried to rules lawyer it. After all, the baby was perfectly fine and healthy when they dumped them in that forest. If a wild animal happens to come by looking for an easy meal or the realities of exposure come to pass, well the blame's really on the gods for allowing that tragedy. You'll notice how in all the myths the baby somehow miraculously survives by being adopted by a mother bear or something .

History tiem! Greeks had an *excellent* idea of their very very close neighbors who they regularly acted as mercenaries for. In particular, Egypt, and in particular, fighting against the Persians as a common foe. That relationship extended back to the Late Bronze Age as well, from what I remember, though their 'common foe' probably would've been the Hittites in Anatolia and/or Assyrians to their east. Even so, the Classical Greeks were very, very aware of the people to their immediate south across the Mediterranean, just as they were aware of the Phoenicians on the Levantine Coast. Indeed, they coined the name Phoenician, possibly after the purple dyes that people in that region harvested from seashells. The Phoenicians themselves were actually some group of Semitic peoples, and most likely either closely related to or indistinguishable from the Canaanites, whose territory extended further inland. Others argue they were just a subgroup among the Canaanites, alongside the Ammonites, Moabites, and Israelites, etc. Going further, the Greeks were generally aware of the various parts of the Mediterranean, though admittedly we're not sure just how far that extends for Mycenaean Greeks or for the Greek Dark Ages. Its an increasingly popular theory that, throughout the Bronze Age, a thriving trade network existed across the Mediterranean as far as Iberia and possibly as far as Britain, plus land routes into the mainland of Europe and possibly elsewhere. While the evidence for this is still somewhat sparse and an area of active research, it would go a long way towards solving the mystery of where the heck the Bronze Age civilizations were getting tin from. Back to the point, the Trojan War is believed to be based off of an actual war, most likely by the Mycenaean Greeks (who basically played the part of Vikings in the Mediterranean, acting as traders, mercenaries, raiders, etc). Historical Troy was most likely a city of some group related to the Hittites, I forget which, the Lydians or Luwians or whatever. During the chaos of the Bronze Age Collapse, a group of Greeks raided the city during a period of some weakness, taking home relatively little in treasure but a lot in glory and pride, creating the seed of a story for the Greeks to pass down. This story would likely resonate well as, for the most part, things sucked pretty hard during the Greek Dark Ages, so some kind of story of the forefathers and their glorious triumph, alongside whatever moral lessons you wanted to append in there, was probably quite popular. This would evolve into the highly exaggerated and mythologized version of the Trojan War we know today.

The House of Atreus is an extremely f***ed up story even by Greek standards. The bad luck technically starts with Agammemnon and Menelaus' great-grandfather, Tantalus, of serving-his-son-to-the-gods-for-dinner fame and subsequent never-eating-or-drinking-what-is-in-his-reach Underworld torture fame. Said eaten and then resurrected son, Pelops, then has two kids, Atreus and Thyestes, who end up banished for killing their brother (there are running themes) and end up in Mycenae. There they seize the throne. Atreus sacrifices his flock to Artemis but omits a golden sheep he finds (didn't learn from Minos). His wife, sleeping with his brother Thyestes, offers the sheep to said brother, who wins a bet that whoever had the golden sheep would become king. Atreus then gets the gods, (hypocritically) outraged at this affair, to make the sun rise in the west and set in the east; he wins another bet on that, gets the throne and exiles his brother. Years later, Thyestes' sons end up getting murdered by Atreus and served as dinner to their father (family traditions). Thyestes curses Atreus, who ends up killed by Thyestes' son/grandson (don't ask) Aegisthus, who puts his father back on the throne. Agammemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus, then kill Thyestes and oust Aegisthus. Then, following the whole Agammemnon being a sack of sh*t thing, his wife Clytemnestra takes Aegisthus as a lover and kills him (Agammemnon) when he returns. Then the Oresteia play tells how Agammemnon and Clytemnestra's son Orestes avenges his father by killing his mother, then is pursued by the Furies for the crime of matricide until he takes refuge in Athens, whereupon they invent the Athenian legal system to clear his name and the Furies transition careers from Underworld instruments of retribution and revenge to prosecutors. The end.

I love that Odysseus is quite litteraly just Snake from Metal Gear i LOVE IT!

Trojan wars: AKA the original shipping wars.

Right from the start: Dude, archeologists found Troy decades ago. The city existed. 7:30 Sparta was also among the oldest of the Greek City-States, and among the longest lasting, thus why it shows up in so many stories. Remember, the Trojan War was pre Bronze Age Collapse (or likely a leading cause of the collapse), while the historical Battle of Thermopile was post Greek Dark Age, literally centuries later. 16:50 There was brisk trade along the coast of the eastern Mediterranean from Greece to Egypt back in the Bronze Age. The Greeks knew all about Egypt back then.

Dude! You will Love her Illiad video! It was an early video but its still hilarious and informative

I’m pretty sure the Menelaus dodging the curse of Atreus thug was a joke, so it doesn’t affect your understanding of Dune.

About the "Helen hatches from an egg" thing. At this point in time the general consensus was that the "male donation" was a complete being and women were just incubators so baby's could grow big enough to survive outside the parent's body. This is also were the concept of a homunculus comes from. A human being grown without the need for a woman. Seeing as women were also considered... less human, a human being created without a woman could be considered a superhuman.

if curious, blue has a series called "History Makers", individuals who had a large impact on how history is narrated, where he does an episode on Homer and explains perhaps how the narrative of the trojan war was structured until Homer's version via the Iliad and the Odyssey became the most well known and consistent.

Might I recommend Red’s more recent video on The Epic of Gilgamesh? I think you’ll enjoy her rant at the end.

If you want her summary of the Illiad , it's the third or so video in the Classics Summarized playlist. There you will also find her summary of Iphigenia, The Odessey, and the Oresteia which are also part of this cycle of Trojan War stories! Also Dante's Divine Comedy and the Aeneid are in there. How many of these you end up reactiong to in sequence depends on how much of a deep dive you want into Greco-Roman mytho-history. Personally, I just binge playlists from these guys whenever I'm bored or need to hear voices in the bacjground to stave off the crippling loneliness because too socially awkward to form adult friendships! I can do comments and text chats. In person? I freeze or just start babbling whatever comes to mind first while screaming internally. Yet, somehow, this weirdness on my part is still endearing enough to random people I meet that they actually want to continue talking to me... I don't get it. The hell am I doing RIGHT?!

So Agamemnon had more children than just Iphigenia, so it is entirely possible for the house of Atraius in Dune to be from either of the brothers. One of the kids is even the titular character of the Oresteia (kinda, his name is Orestes).

16:52 The Myceneans were very familiar with Egypt at the time. They had a massive trade network and Egypt was one of the biggest customers around. These were people who sailed all over the Mediterranean, and possibly even up to the British Isles.

They're both members of the House of Atreus. They're brothers, so part of the same family. If you listened to the part about courting Helen, Agamemnon went as a representation for Menelaus cause they're related.

16:50 The Greeks did know about Egypt. I know because there is a Greek myth that mentions northern Africa that I find to be hilarious. Apparently, the Greeks thought that Africans were black because Apollo's demigod son got to drive the chariot that pulls the sun across the sky one day, lost control and flew too low over Africa, turned much of the land into a desert, and made all the people there get grilled crispy brown.

Not sure if you missed it, but Red's depiction of Odysseus is one big Metal Gear reference (that is a thing that started back in the first video she illustrated and that she is so embarrassed off now: the Illiad video). That is why so much weight is placed by her on the precise phrasing as "mutually assured destruction" here, why there are box jokes, CQC being mentioned etc. .

Jesus, Buddha roommate anime is called Saint Oniisan and is super chill and enjoyable.

17:00 the story of the Trojan war was written in the Hellenistic era of Greece, hence the Hellen in the word Hellenistic, but set in the Mycenaean era. The Mycenaean era was basically the Ancient Greece before Ancient Greece, Blue has a video on it and Red has discussed it as well.

"House of Atreus" = family and descendants of Atreus. "Atreides/Atreidai" = Sons of Atreus (mainly Agamemnon). Menelaus and Agamemnon are his sons. Aegistus, Agamemnon's killer and lover of Clytaemnestra is the son (and grandson) of Atreus' brother. Basically, the first generation were both horrible, and the curse strethed into the times of Orestes, son of Agamemnon.

The youtube channel Useful Charts has a family tree of the Illiad which shows how they are all related, if you're into that.

14:58 I'd give it Melinoe, that way no matter how screwed I am in life, my afterlife will be secure. As long I behave respectfully about it.

The Greeks very much knew about Egypt. In fact, in the myth of Typhon, the gods hide out there disguised as animals, and that was the Greeks' explanation for why the Egyptians worshipped animal-headed gods.

Dune was written post-WWII while Troy and the ruins of Mycenaean Greece were discovered pre-WWI. Herbert absolutely was making a reference to the messed up House of Atreus.

Odysseus MAD plan accounted for everything... Except a outside force. And the gods. He really should know better then not to account for the gods by now.

Maybe the reason why most of Apollo's love interests jumped off a cliff or turned into various plants is because they don't wanna end up like Cassandra

I assume spicy baby jesus is a reference to the Christmas video where Red says that "silent night" describing baby jesus as "tender and mild" makes her feel like she's singing about a chiken sandwich. Hence spicy baby jesus being a funny way to say "spicy chiken sandwich"

You're finally getting into osp greek mythology, i've been waiting for this

Idk if they talk about it here, but troy did technically exist Unfortunately the guy who discovered it (who i forgot the name of rn) was a fucken idiot and thought that the best way to dig it up was with DYNAMITE Yeah, long story short he underestimated the age of the ruins and ended up blowing it up thinking that the ruins under it was the real troy, but nope it was too old to be troy meaning he blew up troy with only a handfull of trojan artifacts remaining So yeah, fun

37:27 I only recently learned why Hellen would be helping Troy in this situation……in a nutshell, Aphrodite is holding her at gunpoint to help Troy and Paris and Hellen in understandably terrified at what she might do if she doesn’t, so she has to comply

13:14 Eh, unsure on the greeks but on the Roman front you're not wrong... and sadly has some degree of parallels in roman society. It was tradition for a newborn baby to be placed on the floor to be accepted or rejected by the male head of the household. If he picked the baby up, it was accepted into the family. If he turned away however, the baby was abandoned. This is also where the slavers come in, picking up the babies that had been abandoned in the streets.

41:30 So, House Atreides claim to be descendants of Agamemnon, but depending on if you consider Brian Herbert's prequal saga to be cannon, then the Agamemnon they are talking about is one of the Titans, the immortal cyborg tyrants who ruled the galaxy, before being overthrown in turn by the super computer Omnius, with House Atreides starting with Vorian Atreides, who was the Titan Agamemnon's bastard son.

In his video on Mycenaean Greece, Blue theorizes that a real-life Trojan War would have been one of the early dominoes which led to the Late Bronze Age Collapse. And, personally, he provides a compelling argument. I really recommend watching his video on that. Due to its position on the Hellespont, Troy would have had a strong strategic position. Maritime traffic going in and out of the Black Sea would have to pass through Trojan waters. Between its well-funded army and navy, banditry and piracy in the region would have been miniscule. So had Troy had been at war for an extended period, its military would have been preoccupied fighting the invaders instead of bandits and pirates. If the city fell and was sacked, that meant bandits and pirates could raid unchecked. If it was true that so many Kings and Heroes were killed in the fighting, it would have led to succession crises that would have driven the Mycenaeans into civil war and financial ruin. Many might have put their skill as warriors and sailors to use by becoming pirates. Between these "Sea People" attested to in contemporary writings, disease, and food shortage, the Mycenaeans and Hittites collapsed. Egypt barely survived. Civilization in the region fell into a dark age where bronze-making and writing were lost. Thereafter, the Bronze Age was remembered by later cultures as a mythological age of great heroes. These had to be remembered in oral histories because of the loss of writing. These stories were eventually codified in writing systems that had little connection to the ones that came before. The codified stories would have been far removed from what may have actually happened. Despite many misremembered parts, as a whole, it gives us the broad strokes of what was going on at the time. There is enough there to piece together the truth. EDIT: Mistakenly said it was on the Bosphorus, then I was reminded it was on the Hellespont, some ways to the south and west of the Bosphorus. Edited the comment to reflect this.

Love the OSP content. As for what to watch next from OSP i would recommend to start with the oldest videos and go through, regardless of type, Red or Blue i think you will enjoy both. There is a lot of running jokes that start way back and get reused a lot troughout other things, like Odysseus being Snake from MGS or the hate for Agamemnon, amongst others. Also new Maxor Elden Ring video.

The lion with a man's face may have been a manticore. Did it have a scorpion's tail, too?

Please go in order, it's great watching her art get better and better.

You can sort videos from channels from oldest to newest, if you do that go down to the thumbnails with blue text the third is the iliad the fourth is the oddesy

It hurts me Neoptolemus wasnt mentioned

Also the relationship of Achilles and Patroclus, was more like a brotherly bond and they grew up together and became battle brothers. You know without the extra organs and mutilation.

speaking of fate and helen of troy, i thought of a cool idea where she is an assassin class servant. however her power is causing others to kill eachother for her while she actually can't control it and hates it. then there is an alter version that is essentially a siren/succubus that does control it and loves it.

Agamemnon is real he has a death mask of Mycenean origin, Troy is real. it's in Turkey now.

31:15 The anime and manga you're talking about is one of my favorites, and it's called Saint Young Men.

This is the fourth in this series The Iliad The Odyssey and The Aeneid came before this

In some versions of the story the apple lands in front of Peleus first and he's the one who picks it up and reads the inscription. If I were him in that version, I would just give the apple to Thetis. You know, his wife? It's the easy way out.

I regret to inform you that Max0r has uploaded a new video. I pray for your sanity.

Troy was actually a real place until it was blown up by certain XIX century archeologist that shall not be named

And again I am reminded of lost Homerians. I blame who or wichever time Library of Alexandria was burned. In thruth it’s probably just regular erosion of source through time but the burning is more media sexy.

In another video. Red link the Trojan War to the Bronze age collapse. Because so many rulers died and put the whole "world" into chaos. and a lot of the soldiers just pillaging all around the Mediterranean.

History tends to repeat itself, more than two nickles at a time lol 🤣

To clarify the curse of Atreus joke. Agamemnon, and Menaleus were brothers

I like to imagine if he had chosen the victory in battle option he could have technically gotten all three of the goddesses incentives with being able to win every war he could easily become king of the world and would have been able to easily kidnap Helen since he would have known great War strategies

Iris is colored like the visible light spectrum.

19:26 Iris is the goddess of the rainbow, that’s why Red drew her that way.

Why could there not be a big budget anime about the Trojan war and Odyssey?

Red has done a lot of Greek Myth/plays videos. Some of them are short enough that you can probably group them together for one video.

BTW If you are intersted in stories from obscure or missing texts, try the OSP about the "Great Seal Fight." The name will make sense later.

I love how you said tell me in the comments when in the first part you state comments are a lot and I do not remember it. Oh well, yeah I think you enjoy when they go with the origins of Rome myth. Beter is known as Illiad and Odyssey V2.

The Jesus and Buddha roommates thing you mentioned is Saint Young Men, but last I checked it's just a manga. If they really did make an anime out of it, I'm gonna have to check that out. Edit: from wikipedia: A-1 Pictures adapted the manga series into two original animation DVDs (OADs) and an anime film which was released on May 10, 2013. It also inspired a ten-episode live-action web series in 2018.

I wouldn’t give it to Zeus, I would give it to Persephone, when I’m dead hers is the only favour that might make a difference

And yet, despite having stuff like this happening since way back then....the jocks still never listen to the nerds......

You should check out Old man Five(ish) Minute Lore . Like Tuska Daemon-Killa the Ork that went to ork heaven, Rylanor the bad ass , ciaphas cain the coward... I mean hero of the Imperium and Trazyn the infinite Pokemon master.

Great episode.

29:37 nah man, that's a reference to the old _I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of gum._ 32:35 I feel like this is a Batamn / Superman situation... in early versions Archillies was Batman, total badass no superpowers and in the end lost because he was poisoned with the help of powerful beings (you could even say it has similarities with the time Bane broke someone back). And later Archillies became Superman who was nearly invincible with a small exception and if you got lucky and had the right weapon you could beat him.

Too much of Agamemnon is an absolute shitshow, but if you're curious how his story ends (I mean, we KNOW how it ends, but still), check out a double (technically triple, it's 3 discs) album called The House of Atreus by Virgin Steele. Be warned though: it's a bit long, but still shorter than the Iliad, about 2 3/4 hours, and may not be your cup of tea, depending on musical taste. It's a musical retelling of the Oresteia, starting at the end of the Trojan War, before he makes his way back home, and I will say no more, should you want to hear it for yourself. Edit: And have lyrics with you. The lyrics are done by character, not just content.

Menelaous and Agamemnon are brothers and both are sons of Atreus himself.

Thanks for this reaction.

38:36 I forgot that in a previous video you said that mysteries like this are just huge piles of sugar to you. Then the way Red spins the video on Loki and Heimdall’s seal fight and the Epic of Gilgamesh ( one of her newest videos) will be like a candyland.

I think you'll also like the Epic The Musical concept album since it's a retelling of The Odyssey.