CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture 24: Odyssey.docx
24 Oct 2014
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Nostoi the returns stories of how each great hero came home. Driven to egypt for several years with helen and spartans. Has to capture proteus to learn how to get home changes shape. One of the very few who have a happy ever after. Idomeneus promises to sacrifice the first human he sees on the beach to poseidon driven into exile. The son in the one on the beach. He either kills his son or he is about to and he gets magically whisked away. Ship is blasted, swims to a rock, shakes his fist at zeus and says im still here , and zeus hits him with a lightening bolt. The leading noble and he has now been gone for 10 years. Others want to take him position specifically a. Ithaca nothing, small, not lots of men fighting under him, he is not important. Antino s wants to take his place. Favourite of athena same with odysseus.
