CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scheria, Cicones, Odysseus
9 Mar 2018
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Athena rouses nausicaa, phaeacian princess on the brink of adulthood. Nausicaa as artemis= chaste & untouchable: she does(cid:374)"t want to be seen with him because that can be misinterpreted. Young women alone in greek myth- a real danger. Book 7: bard sings song of odysseus in the trojan war. In book 8 another bard sings a song of odysseus in the trojan war- he cries both times- his answer to the bard (bard asks who odysseus is?) Odysseus among the phaeacians: king alcinous, odysseus" ide(cid:374)tity revealed. The wanderings of odysseus: troubles with hospitality, thinking himself out of (and into) trouble, flashback narrative technique, opposition of culture and nature. The cicones: stripped of heroic grandeur, defeat because of over-reaching, very bland description- no glory like the trojan war. The lotus-eaters: problematic hospitality: detaining their guests. Island of the cyclops (plural: (cyclopes: arrogant, lawless, no social organization, nature vs. culture; intelligence vs force.
