The difference between Odysseus hurting someone and Aeneas hurting someone is one is like if a cat bites you and the other is like if a dog bites you.

Odysseus hurts people and you go "yeah he just does that usually", but when Aeneas does the same it's like "what??? The fuck???"

This is because when reading the Odyssey you quickly get to know He Is Just Like That, and has absolutely no emotional intelligence, whereas Aeneas shows an ability to be a nice and good person and therefore has enough emotional intelligence to know when he is hurting someone.

(It also helps that Homer writes like he actually likes Odysseus as a character, but Vergil clearly fucking hates Aeneas half the time (the Carthaginians are like bees who are lovely and awesome and friendly and the Trojans are like ANTS who fucking SUCK and STEAL MY GRAIN))

Animal Farm, a book criticising totalitarian governments, is getting a visual adaptation where there are silly animals selling their crops to those they're supposed to hate.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a book written by an author who got imprisoned for sodomy, is getting a visual adaptation where the two characters with clear homoromantic undertones are turned into brothers.

Dracula, a book about a group of friends that explore the themes of antagonism and Victorian anxieties, is getting a visual adaptation where the count falls in love with one of his rape victims.

Wuthering Heights, a book that beats the reader over the head with a bat about how the POC protagonist wants to be privileged and white, is getting a visual adaptation with a white person as the protagonist and a POC as the one he envies.

The Odyssey, a book about a man from Ancient Greece trying to get home from war, is getting a visual adaptation coated in a "Hollywood" aesthetic that rejects accurate armour and casting.

2026 is not a good year for classic literature fans all around.