CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Black Panther, Appropriate Behavior, Symplegades
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Modeled off the clashing rocks, real things. Tiresias (in underworld) : don"t touch the damn cattle. Orig. indo-euro: sun god has divine cattle that are kept away from humans. Humans sacrifice them through trickery and crime. First sacrifice (in indo-euro; myth isn"t always logically consistent) Men try and resist cattle, but they are hungry and (the one bad guy) Eurylochus gets the men to sacrifice the cattle. Offends zeus and sun god: above human condition, annihilation of. Odysseus lands on calypso after his men are all dead af. Tells srtory to phaecians, tells story, gets home, finally arrives at ithaca. Plot summary: 100 suitors courting penelope, shroud for laertes. Antinoos and polytherses making fun of xenia and odysseus (as a beggar) Polytherses: come, met me too give the beggar a guest gift (making fun of. Odysseus makes it seem like it was an even match. Be quiet, mine is the power in this household .
