I’m a former English teacher. You don’t need to be an English teacher, however, to know THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY ARE TWO DISTINCTLY SEPARATE STORIES.

This lying fuck did a wikipedia search of “the classics” and wants smart people points for name-dropping THE WRONG FUCKING NAME.

He hasn’t read either. At best he’s seen a bunch of bleached Hellenistic statue avatars on the internet and nodded along to their RETVRN prattling. biggus-dickus

Ever meet that annoying kid in grade school that said “I am very smart. I know that E Equals Em Cee Squared!” young-sheldon Fifty years later, one of those became my-hero

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    For those (and my classes had them too) there’s always the original text, and I always left that option open for their individual work.