ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Telemachus, Housekeeping, Aristeia
Document Summary
Odyssey never contradicted or repetition with iliad. Works around the main event in the iliad. Narrative begins in the 10th year of odysseus"s wandering. Books 1-4 focus on telemachus; often referred to as the telemachy. Book 5-12 odysseus"s journey from troy back home to ithaca: books 9-12 narrated by odysseus himself, contains nearly all the trials and tribulation he undergoes in the previous 9+ year. Books 13-24: odysseus"s homecoming, his revenge upon the suitor and aftermath. Physical journeys: odysseus"s wandering (1. 1-10, telemachos"s journeying to pylos and sparta, menelaos and helen"s detour to egypt. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of/ many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea (1. 3-4: telemachos. That i may/ stir up his son a little, and put some confidence in him so that he may win a good reputation (1 88-95) You should not go on/ clinging to your childhood (1.
