Conrad Isn't So Bad

Genre/Style: (Anti-)Folk

Touchstones: The Mountain Goats, “Anti-Music Song”; Noah Kahan, “Stick Season”; The Bottle Rockets, “Indianapolis”

Themes: Adaptation, point of view, monstrosity, comedy vs. tragedy vs. epic, obsession, unrequited love, love as remedy, artifical simplicity in art

Myth: Polyphemus the Cyclops (Theocritus’ Version)

Notable Tellings: Homer, Odyssey book 9 (8th C. BCE); Theocritus, Idyll 11 (3rd C. BCE); Vergil Aeneid book 3 (19 BCE)