Odysseus The Fighter: The City of Terror
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  • Reads 31
  • Votes 0
  • Parts 7
  • Time 12m
Ongoing, First published May 05, 2020
This is a play about Odysseus from The Odyssey. Odysseus arrives in the fictitious city of Gibettia ruled by king Thyton. Upon his arrival, Odysseus is confronted by Thyton about a possible disaster facing the city. The women of the town have been acting strangely and the men are afraid that something bad is about to happen. Odysseus is tasked with discovering the cause of these tensions and finds that there is more to these strange actions than just simple tension. 

This play was a project for my Greek and Roman Mythology class and as such is set to deal with the social anxieties of 5th century BCE Athens. These include but are not limited to a fear of the power of women over men and the mistreatments of women by men based on this power dynamic. 

This play is also styled after the workings of the Greek playwright Euripides. Euripides was known for his plays that pointed out the social anxieties of the time and as such was only successful in the festival of Dionysius 5 times out of his 90 something plays. In other words he made his plays a little beyond what the Athenians were ready for. In his Successful plays, they followed a similar pattern: Begin play, develop characters, start to discuss and set up the social anxiety the play was created to discuss, make good points about said anxiety, then completely destroy any and all points about the social anxiety, create a big conflict, fight, or some such violence to appease the audience, and return to status quo, ending the play. A notable example is the play Medea. My play follows this example.

This play is a "lost episode" about a character in Greek mythology. Therefore, Odysseus exists as a character in Greek myth but the story, location, and other characters have been completely fabricated by me, any likeness to locations or characters is purely coincidental. I hope you enjoy my project especially if you read this far.
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