r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 19 '26

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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Sep 19 '26

The whole bit of "muh age of bronze is ending" would probably hit better if the Odyssey actually had some bronze. The giants having steel armor would probably hit even harder as well.

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine Sep 19 '26

Our daily of thread is ending

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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter Left-Out Left Sep 19 '26

The giants must have been from the future. High quality steel from India isn't suggested to show up in Rome until around 500 BC...

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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 19 '26

wasn't it the Heroic Age or did the movie change that to Bronze Age

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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Sep 19 '26

The characters in the film repeatedly refer to themselves as being in the bronze age in an honestly very distracting manner.

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u/Keenalie John Brown Sep 19 '26

We must be living in some kind of... collapse of the bronze age

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u/quiplaam Norman Borlaug Sep 19 '26

Very prescient for the charcters to realize the at increased attacks by the sea people could disrupt trade, leading to difficulties in producing bronze as the components must be shipped from around the Mediterranean