CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cicones, Odysseus, Cyclops
5 Jan 2017
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Athena rouses nausicaa, phaiacian princess on the brink of adulthood. Young women alone in greek myth a real danger. Odysseus" spee(cid:272)h: clever, husband and wife living together with one mind, a more typical view of marriage, odysseus and penelope. Nausi(cid:272)aa"s feeli(cid:374)gs: looks and speech of odysseus won over nausicaa. Entering the city: king offers his daughter to odysseus but he tactfully refuses. Odysseus among the phaiacans: king alcinous, odysseus" ide(cid:374)tity re(cid:448)ealed. The wanderings of odysseus: troubles with hospitality, thinking himself out of (and into) trouble, flashback narrative technique. One of the earliest uses of flashback: opposition of culture and nature. Human civilization is superior and is seen as brutal and uncompromising. The cicones: stripped of heroic grandeur, defeat because of over-reaching. The lotus-eaters: problematic hospitality: detaining their guests. All who eats the lotus flower loses their desire to return home. Island of the cyclops (plural: cyclopes: arrogant, lawless, no social organization, nature vs. culture; intelligence vs. force.
