Since Gabriel is still in semi-Achaean mode - well, I was talking to a friend about the Odyssey.

I commented: "Fucking odysseus gets to wander the mediterranean for years fucking Callisto (Later realised it was Calypso, not Callisto. Callisto was one of Zeus' dryad bitches) and Circe, while Penelope has to sit in her room and weave just to keep the chee hong bastards out of her bed."

Friend: "WHAT?? Odysseus slept around?"

Me: "Didn't you read the book?"

He showed me the book he had read - it was a sanitised, Penguin-for-children's book.

Me: "NEVER FUCKING READ ABRIDGED TEXTS!!"

My friend (staunch Christian) took it very personally. In fact he sms-ed me yesterday: "let's go watch troy and see that bastard odysseus.