CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phemius, Kleos, Odysseus
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Odyssey 1: the idea of the wanderer blown of course time, this interest in ethnography talking about different people in different places within the odyssey. Odysseys as aoidos: the bard that sings epic poetry, demodocus, phemius singer in court of ithaca, odysseus will almost take up the role of being the bard himself, books 9-12 gives us. Identity: sublimating kleos: kleos fame, trying to play off what achilles wanted. Xenia is guest friendship : central theme and practice of xenia is central to the illiad and the odyssey, this has to do with elite social practice. Cyclopes: not a collaborative, structured way of law. In this pot this is odysseys and his men blinding polyphemus. Image points out how they get out of the cave. It"s odysseus" own hubris in his hero"s heart that made him forget he"s not a god he"s a mortal subject punishment.
