HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aegisthus, Scheria, Telemachus
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Meets odysseus when hes naked and washes up on shore. She could run away and not honor rules of guest friendship. She needs to make sure shes not compromised with her association with a naked man. Welcomes him but suggests he walks far behind him as they walk to the palace. Has a sense of modesty and decorum. King of phaeacians offers nausicaa to marriage for odysseus. Shows that its not just going home thats important. Its the specific home and wife that he goes home to thats important. Also an answer to what makes a man a man. Also a trap that would take him away from his homecoming. Poseidon isn"t around on mount olympos (presumably because he"s busy getting sweet revenge), while the other gods discuss the fact that orestes, son of agamemnon, murdered this other guy aigisthos. Zeus says that aigisthos totally deserved it because he had a long affair with.
