FYSM 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ugly Man Records, Laodamas, Scheria
28 Jun 2016
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Homer leaves out the fourth element in the calypso tale because the rest of the epic depends on odysseus getting home. Both the folklore and the story of calypso are derived from something older. Athene appears to nausicaa and tells her to ask her father to give her horses and wagon and take the linens to be washed. Odysseus wakes and nausicaa addresses him, offers him clothes and he asks who rules the island. After washing and dressing, nausicaa finds odysseus handsome: wishes she could have him for a husband, drawing on folklore that has an ugly man" turned beautiful (ex. The princess and the frog, beauty and the beast, etc. ) Nausicaa takes him halfway to the palace and he must walk the rest of the way. Speaks to the queen and requests that she help him get home. The king says that his daughters judgment is faulted because she should have brought him home.
