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Overview
As it says on the tin! Books that are narratively or tangentially related to Black Sails in a major capacity
Feel free to send suggestions of books to add to this challenge here: https://vampiremotif.tumblr.com/ask
Feel free to send suggestions of books to add to this challenge here: https://vampiremotif.tumblr.com/ask
Black Sails Required Reading List
11 participants (4 books)
Overview
As it says on the tin! Books that are narratively or tangentially related to Black Sails in a major capacity
Feel free to send suggestions of books to add to this challenge here: https://vampiremotif.tumblr.com/ask
Feel free to send suggestions of books to add to this challenge here: https://vampiremotif.tumblr.com/ask
Challenge Books
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The basis of the story! And many of Black Sails' characters of which the show serves as its prequel.
The Odyssey
Homer
Flint mentions the Odyssey explicitly in episode II. Flint's arc also narratively echoes that of Odysseus's throughout the show. Jon Steinberg has mentioned on multiple occasions that Odyssey served as inspiration.
The Iliad
Homer
Jon Steinberg compared Silver and Flint to Odysseus and Achilles in episode 58 of the Fathoms Deep Podcast.
"This is really two narratives that are, sort of, interacting with each other. I think they’re almost two different stories that find a way to embrace each other and appear as though they are one story - one is Silver’s and one is Flint’s. […] I had a professor in college who, sort of, helped distill Odyssey and Illiad into these two ideas, that Achilles is a character for whom glory and glory-seeking is the ultimate end and Odysseus is a character who just wants to get home."
"This is really two narratives that are, sort of, interacting with each other. I think they’re almost two different stories that find a way to embrace each other and appear as though they are one story - one is Silver’s and one is Flint’s. […] I had a professor in college who, sort of, helped distill Odyssey and Illiad into these two ideas, that Achilles is a character for whom glory and glory-seeking is the ultimate end and Odysseus is a character who just wants to get home."
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
(Season 2 Episode 5 XIII) "My truest love. Know no shame. T.H."