Estaba planeando por diversion un ship con mi amiga,que incluye a #Melantho entonces la dibujé para recordar su diseño
#theodyssey
#theodyssey
October 1, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Estaba planeando por diversion un ship con mi amiga,que incluye a #Melantho entonces la dibujé para recordar su diseño
#theodyssey
#theodyssey
Do you drive a car, Melantho? so what's with that high beams?-
September 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Do you drive a car, Melantho? so what's with that high beams?-
September 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Suitor Antinous (Pattinson) and Penelope’s maid Melantho (Goth) smooching and giggling right outside of Penelope‘s domain like two plotting Siamese cats in a Disney movie works like a charm. Antinous (Pattinson) the coward in armor is constantly calculating and egging others to confront Odysseus. 5/
September 12, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Suitor Antinous (Pattinson) and Penelope’s maid Melantho (Goth) smooching and giggling right outside of Penelope‘s domain like two plotting Siamese cats in a Disney movie works like a charm. Antinous (Pattinson) the coward in armor is constantly calculating and egging others to confront Odysseus. 5/
I’m glad you loved 🥰 it.
And thanks for coming back!
I’m not a Homer expert but yeah I’m kind of in that camp.
Even if it wasn’t for all that baggage I still think Mia Goth as Melantho was criminally underused and they could have done so many more interesting things with Samantha Morton.
And thanks for coming back!
I’m not a Homer expert but yeah I’m kind of in that camp.
Even if it wasn’t for all that baggage I still think Mia Goth as Melantho was criminally underused and they could have done so many more interesting things with Samantha Morton.
August 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I’m glad you loved 🥰 it.
And thanks for coming back!
I’m not a Homer expert but yeah I’m kind of in that camp.
Even if it wasn’t for all that baggage I still think Mia Goth as Melantho was criminally underused and they could have done so many more interesting things with Samantha Morton.
And thanks for coming back!
I’m not a Homer expert but yeah I’m kind of in that camp.
Even if it wasn’t for all that baggage I still think Mia Goth as Melantho was criminally underused and they could have done so many more interesting things with Samantha Morton.
Serve esclusivamente a far da contraltare di riconoscimento della spilla rispetto al bossolo di Sinone. A me ha fatto infuriare nel rewatch quando mi son resa conto che sia l'unica cattiva, vendicativa e che si lascia dominare da questa sua passione (edulcorata a caso poi, perchè Melantho non muore)
August 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Serve esclusivamente a far da contraltare di riconoscimento della spilla rispetto al bossolo di Sinone. A me ha fatto infuriare nel rewatch quando mi son resa conto che sia l'unica cattiva, vendicativa e che si lascia dominare da questa sua passione (edulcorata a caso poi, perchè Melantho non muore)
and you get a sense why the sack of Troy was often depicted as a tragic atrocity in ancient literature (although the movie doesn’t get into the real horrors). Ovid would have loved this version of Circe. And the Melantho-Antinous situationship sets you up to root against them in a reality show way.
August 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
and you get a sense why the sack of Troy was often depicted as a tragic atrocity in ancient literature (although the movie doesn’t get into the real horrors). Ovid would have loved this version of Circe. And the Melantho-Antinous situationship sets you up to root against them in a reality show way.
Melantho walking into a storage room looking for something and she can hear faint moaning and skin slapping sounds from inside
She's ready to tell the suitor and the maid to leave (if she can't have sex during working hours no one can) when she notices it's a suitor and... Telemachus?
She's ready to tell the suitor and the maid to leave (if she can't have sex during working hours no one can) when she notices it's a suitor and... Telemachus?
August 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Melantho walking into a storage room looking for something and she can hear faint moaning and skin slapping sounds from inside
She's ready to tell the suitor and the maid to leave (if she can't have sex during working hours no one can) when she notices it's a suitor and... Telemachus?
She's ready to tell the suitor and the maid to leave (if she can't have sex during working hours no one can) when she notices it's a suitor and... Telemachus?
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August 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Check out Sourcebooks' catalog of titles inspired by Greek Mythology including:
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August 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Hi hello does anyone have a Vgen code? I'm desperate ;;;
Anyway here's fanart of Sweet bitter song it genuinely broke me
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My dream Odyssey hype-appropriation movie is a small-budget 90 minuter MELANTHO where the heroine is a viciously pragmatic young enslaved woman making bold moves and gambling everything, even her life, on a chance at freedom.
another Odyssey point: I think the film's own themes would have been reinforced by more emphasis on *sexual* violence committed by the Greeks, which we only really see referenced in the scene with Circe. This is something very hard to do well but which has plenty of classical reference points.
August 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
My dream Odyssey hype-appropriation movie is a small-budget 90 minuter MELANTHO where the heroine is a viciously pragmatic young enslaved woman making bold moves and gambling everything, even her life, on a chance at freedom.
August 6, 2026 at 10:47 PM
i agree Melantho likely cut for time. tho tbf in the poem—if i recall correctly—she is not specifically named among slave women Telemachus hangs for crime of being raped by suitors. perhaps Nolan is sticking to the text? to sum up your friend rob sounds like a loudmouthed ignoramus
text.so
August 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
i agree Melantho likely cut for time. tho tbf in the poem—if i recall correctly—she is not specifically named among slave women Telemachus hangs for crime of being raped by suitors. perhaps Nolan is sticking to the text? to sum up your friend rob sounds like a loudmouthed ignoramus
Im now thinking maybe Prairie Dawn should be Nausicaa. Instead I think I’d have Zoe from Sesame Street as Melantho. And maybe Elmo could be Melanthus.
August 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Im now thinking maybe Prairie Dawn should be Nausicaa. Instead I think I’d have Zoe from Sesame Street as Melantho. And maybe Elmo could be Melanthus.
I feel like Odysseus should be the only human. Penelope should be Miss Piggy, Janice=Calypso. I’m undecided about who Circe should be bc there are not that many female Muppets. Melantho = Prairie Dawn. The Sirens should be Gonzo’s chicken girlfriends, and their song should be chicken bawking.
August 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I feel like Odysseus should be the only human. Penelope should be Miss Piggy, Janice=Calypso. I’m undecided about who Circe should be bc there are not that many female Muppets. Melantho = Prairie Dawn. The Sirens should be Gonzo’s chicken girlfriends, and their song should be chicken bawking.
3) Did Melantho get her comeuppance? I missed it in all the bustle. 🧵
August 5, 2026 at 6:02 AM
3) Did Melantho get her comeuppance? I missed it in all the bustle. 🧵
And it makes some great characters boring - Mia Goth’s Melantho- a complex and traitorous slave - has a great snarky speech about Odysseus’ lower station in life in Book 18 of ‘The Odyssey’.
Indulge me while I give it to you in full.
Indulge me while I give it to you in full.
August 3, 2026 at 9:15 AM
And it makes some great characters boring - Mia Goth’s Melantho- a complex and traitorous slave - has a great snarky speech about Odysseus’ lower station in life in Book 18 of ‘The Odyssey’.
Indulge me while I give it to you in full.
Indulge me while I give it to you in full.
What would I change? I would spare Melantho, but kill all the suitors. Remove the confession scene and make the "are we the baddies?" point differently. Have him travel to appease Poseidon AND the unburied soldiers. Make the Polyphemus scene more like in the poem.
August 3, 2026 at 5:39 AM
What would I change? I would spare Melantho, but kill all the suitors. Remove the confession scene and make the "are we the baddies?" point differently. Have him travel to appease Poseidon AND the unburied soldiers. Make the Polyphemus scene more like in the poem.
The handling of Melantho is basically the entire movie in miniature. Nolan is clumsily fighting with his own source material, trying to inject his own super-duper-serious themes but unwilling to make chances sufficiently radical to produce something coherent.
August 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
The handling of Melantho is basically the entire movie in miniature. Nolan is clumsily fighting with his own source material, trying to inject his own super-duper-serious themes but unwilling to make chances sufficiently radical to produce something coherent.
One other thing: I expected Nolan to just cut the whole disloyal slave-girls bit from the original but the movie actually goes out of its way to show Melantho as a dirty whore who deserves whatever happens to her... and then I think she disappears into thin air during the final battle? Weird.
August 2, 2026 at 3:16 AM
One other thing: I expected Nolan to just cut the whole disloyal slave-girls bit from the original but the movie actually goes out of its way to show Melantho as a dirty whore who deserves whatever happens to her... and then I think she disappears into thin air during the final battle? Weird.
Saw Odyssey. I liked it but felt like Odysseus could've been a little more actively evil during the actual sack of Troy. He was never going to chuck the baby but still.
Would've fit the "we ruined the World" vibe better if they had Melantho killed off too but Nolan's soft spots likely kicked in.
Would've fit the "we ruined the World" vibe better if they had Melantho killed off too but Nolan's soft spots likely kicked in.
July 29, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Saw Odyssey. I liked it but felt like Odysseus could've been a little more actively evil during the actual sack of Troy. He was never going to chuck the baby but still.
Would've fit the "we ruined the World" vibe better if they had Melantho killed off too but Nolan's soft spots likely kicked in.
Would've fit the "we ruined the World" vibe better if they had Melantho killed off too but Nolan's soft spots likely kicked in.
Re the #Odyssey & the Bechdel-Wallace Test, _technically_ Penelope's line to Melantho, "Surely your place is down there" qualifies, although it's hard not to interpret that as still implicitly being about the men. I'm enjoying Ride or Die, which 2 hrs in has only once reverse-Bechdeled!
July 29, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Re the #Odyssey & the Bechdel-Wallace Test, _technically_ Penelope's line to Melantho, "Surely your place is down there" qualifies, although it's hard not to interpret that as still implicitly being about the men. I'm enjoying Ride or Die, which 2 hrs in has only once reverse-Bechdeled!
Love this on its own, but doubly because I recently read a really excellent sapphic reimagining of Penelope and Melantho.
July 28, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Love this on its own, but doubly because I recently read a really excellent sapphic reimagining of Penelope and Melantho.
yes, and for all of the complaints about the script/dialogue, i interpret that as nolan trying to subtly signal the actual nature of the relationship between antinous and melantho—not one of romance/fun but rather some unseen negotiation of power/manipulation between two inherently unequal parties
July 28, 2026 at 3:11 PM
yes, and for all of the complaints about the script/dialogue, i interpret that as nolan trying to subtly signal the actual nature of the relationship between antinous and melantho—not one of romance/fun but rather some unseen negotiation of power/manipulation between two inherently unequal parties