BEES ARE DYING AT AN ALARMING RATE

In the movie O Brother Where Art Thou, there are references to the Odyssey . In the movie, three fugitives met up with a talented guitar player and recorded a song called "Man of Constant Sorrow", and that made me think of Odysseus in Calypso's Island. While he was trapped on the island, he cried on the beach every day. I guess he was constantly in sorrow for 6-7(?) years. Anyways, the lyrics of the first two verses are: (1) I am a man of constant sorrow,  I've seen trouble all my day  (2) I bid farewell to old Kentucky,  The place where I was born and raised  (The place where he was born and raised) (3) For six long years I've been in trouble,  No pleasures here on earth I found  (4) For in this world I'm bound to ramble,  I have no friends to help me now  (He has no friends to help him now) Adding to part 1, Odysseus did see trouble from after the Trojan War until he was trapped on the island. In part 2, if you replace Kentucky with Ithaca, which is a

While I was listening to one of the presentations one minor detail caught my ears. While Odysseus was in the under women, meeting women that are famous in Greek myths, I heard that some women married her son after he killed his father. I was like "Hold up, it's actually time to actually read the book and not look at SparkNotes". After like 30 minutes of struggling, I finally found the passage: "I saw fine Epicaste, Oedipus' mother, who did a dreadful thing in ignorance: she married her own son. He killed his father, and married her. (Book 11. Lines 271-275). I was aware that there was some incest happening in the book, but a son-mother relationship? I decided to take a further look. After Googling "Incest in Ancient Greece" at school (probably my deepest regret ever), I didn't have to look very far after when I was informed that Hera, was Zeus' first wife, AND ALSO HIS SISTER! So I made some conclusions. If the "main" god marries ano