CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Katabasis, Cicones
26 Mar 2018
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The nostoi (homecomings; cf. nostalgia: a whole cycle of poems almost entirely lost. Agamemnon loses a few men on the way home. Diomedes is estranged from his wife and ends up in italy: is worshipped as a hero all over italy. Neoptolemus takes the land route back home: marries hermione, daughter of menelaus and helen. If two really successful families marry each other, it results in disaster always: neoptolemus is killed at delphi, becoming an important hero, and hermione can"t have children so it ends bad for both blood lines. Of the man tell me, o muse, the man of many ways, who traveled afar after he had sacked the holy city of troy. He experienced the cities and the thoughts of many men, and his spirit suffered many sorrows on the sea, as he laboured for his own life and for the homecoming of his companions.
