CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cicones, Aeolian Islands, Odysseus
28 Feb 2018
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Brutal response: attack so you can get prizes and food. Odysseus the hero: generates storylines if he attacks a town. They are non-threatening, want to share their drugs (ecstasy-like) w/ odysseus and his men. Cyclopes culture: no agriculture, family units, no laws, no civic unit, no ships, fire, herding, cheese, no religion. Odysseus gets polyphemus (the main cyclops) drunk enough to stab his eye. Odysseus hides under the best ram and escapes. Maybe animals used to be able to talk, that"s why polyphemus addresses his ram. Or a kind of womb, emerging from a cave, being reborn. The noman" trick and a greek homonym metis. Odysseus transforms his name to mean clever intelligence. He laments, he heard this prophecy before. He thought someone bigger/stronger would be his downfall. Euripides was a 5th c tragic playwright. Cyclops is our only complete example of a satyr drama.
