CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lavinium, Aeneid, Odysseus
29 Mar 2013
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Final exam: 3 essay questions (she will pick 1) He can change shapes (the one with many shapes) and impersonate people. He was away from his homeland for 20 yrs (10 yrs was war) The route of odysseus: it"s usually a linear pathway (however, some of them are not linear) He returns to ithava: he comes on a ship with many treasures, ship returns back (poseidon is angry and turns the ship into a rock) Odysseus disguises himself as a beggar, penelope doesn"t recognize her, she gives a contest for her suitors but no one wins, with the help of his son, She shows up in iliad (seduction of aeneas by aphrodite), aeneas escapes death with the help of gods aphrodite, apollo and poseidon. Aeneas worked on the aeneid poem for 10 years and he said that all of his poems should be destroyed after his death (he died in 19 b. c)
