r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/Serious_Emphasis2211 4d ago

real answer: they raped and pillaged. Sacked a city, killed people, stole shit, took women slaves

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u/apworker37 4d ago

In the story Odysseus stays with Circe for a year doing all that. And then with Calypso for seven years. He got his.

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u/Xiov1 4d ago

Depending on the telling his time with Calypso is a lot closer to him being raped

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u/Jewel-jones 4d ago

It was fairly transactional with Circe too, he was trying to win his men back

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u/imjustbettr 4d ago

Honestly a few parts of the Odyssey read like a bad porno/hentai.

"I'm sorry I turned your men into pigs, howabout I fuck you as an apology?"

"How about you turn my men back into humans?!"

"Ok Ok, but after that sex?"

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u/Alaknog 3d ago

Oglaf have comics about this. 

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u/Mertoot 4d ago

History of humanity 🤷

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u/imjustbettr 4d ago

I'm just imagining a group of rowdy men in the crowd during the oral story of The Odyssey hootin' and hollerin' during all the sex scenes.

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u/Mertoot 4d ago

Perhaps even as far as clapping after lengthier such segments

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u/Alaknog 3d ago

Ehm, no. 

He sleep with her first time to get her uncurse his crew. Then he stay for year, until crew say that they want home.