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<blockquote data-quote="Beowulf" data-source="post: 7766823" data-attributes="member: 803"><p>The problem with this interpretation is that if recurve bows where sufficiently well known to Greek audiences that they would all get the reference without it being spelled out, then presumably the suitors would also be familiar with recurve bows. So if that's the only explanation for why only Odysseus could string it, something doesn't add up.</p><p></p><p>I mean, that's fine if his bow was a recurve. But is that sufficient to explain why nobody else could string it? </p><p></p><p>Maybe there was some cultural thing we wouldn't understand where it would be assumed that people from Ithaca wouldn't know a recurve bow if they tripped on it. Imagine a scene where a bunch of guys from a small town in (insert your least favorite state) try to figure out a <em>sous vide</em> machine. Erudite audiences would get the joke.</p><p></p><p>In the year 4018? Maybe not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beowulf, post: 7766823, member: 803"] The problem with this interpretation is that if recurve bows where sufficiently well known to Greek audiences that they would all get the reference without it being spelled out, then presumably the suitors would also be familiar with recurve bows. So if that's the only explanation for why only Odysseus could string it, something doesn't add up. I mean, that's fine if his bow was a recurve. But is that sufficient to explain why nobody else could string it? Maybe there was some cultural thing we wouldn't understand where it would be assumed that people from Ithaca wouldn't know a recurve bow if they tripped on it. Imagine a scene where a bunch of guys from a small town in (insert your least favorite state) try to figure out a [I]sous vide[/I] machine. Erudite audiences would get the joke. In the year 4018? Maybe not. [/QUOTE]
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