ASCI 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Odysseus, Cronus
6 Dec 2016
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Human exploration is the most ancient behaviours. Major philosophical stuff to the exploration of space. The final frontier , nasa: not through space but to go to the unknown, intellectually, homer wrote stories around 750 bc, exploring into unknown lands, the odyssey; story of exploration into the unknown. Thematic argument homer had: odysseus is an explorer, travels take him to the unknown region, the limit , his struggles confront him with challenges; lotophagoi and is tempted by drugs proving to be a morally pure explorer. Odysseus and the sirens, songs lure men to the women and the sirens rip flesh off body and consume men (480-470 bc) Island of the cyclopes; relates more today to the idea of the meaning of space exploration. 12 jars of wine in the dark cave, wine being the complex product of civilization. Polyphemus (odyssey, book 9)- sheppard by training, himself the sheep and.
