I am not PugJesus but maybe I can fill in context.
Odysseus: Legendary hero of The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus famously lied to a cyclops to make him believe that his name was “Nobody”, and so when Odysseus took an opportunity to blind the cyclops and escape, the cyclops could only say “Nobody did this/Nobody is escaping” or something to that effect when he went to get help, which went ignored.
Orpheus: Another Greco-Roman mythological figure, a musician who was skilled at playing a lyre. In one myth, his wife Eurydice died, and so he set off to the underworld to find her soul and bring her back to life. He visited Hades and played some tunes, and Hades was impressed enough to strike a bargain that he would be able to retrieve her soul and guide her back to the world of the living as long as he swore not to look at her until they arrived. Things went well enough basically right up until the very end when he had one moment of doubt and looked at her, at which point she vanished back to the depths of the underworld forever.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am not PugJesus but maybe I can fill in context.
Odysseus: Legendary hero of The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus famously lied to a cyclops to make him believe that his name was “Nobody”, and so when Odysseus took an opportunity to blind the cyclops and escape, the cyclops could only say “Nobody did this/Nobody is escaping” or something to that effect when he went to get help, which went ignored.
Orpheus: Another Greco-Roman mythological figure, a musician who was skilled at playing a lyre. In one myth, his wife Eurydice died, and so he set off to the underworld to find her soul and bring her back to life. He visited Hades and played some tunes, and Hades was impressed enough to strike a bargain that he would be able to retrieve her soul and guide her back to the world of the living as long as he swore not to look at her until they arrived. Things went well enough basically right up until the very end when he had one moment of doubt and looked at her, at which point she vanished back to the depths of the underworld forever.
nagaram@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I’m pleased with this explanation. And I want this user to know I appreciate their joke that would have been funny 2000 years ago too.