CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Odysseus

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 1B03
• Professor: Kathryn Mattison

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-slave girls: telemachus calls the shots (hanging instead of sword, longer dirtier death) Telemachus and the false sense of order so no one knows suitors are dead. Pe(cid:374)elope"s test if odysseus is really hi(cid:373): to (cid:373)o(cid:448)e his (cid:271)ed to the hall. Achilles and agamemnon contrast with odysseus (odysseus has better wife and nostos) Odysseus and laertes: the old man is deliberately distant from the palace (od starts off by lying about his identity to his dad, but reveals himself later) Go (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to laertes" hut, (cid:449)here tele(cid:373)a(cid:272)hus is. Three ge(cid:374)eratio(cid:374)s together at last, fa(cid:373)ily li(cid:374)e successful, reunions are complete. -incites war: laertes kills eupeithes, father of antinous.