ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Achilles, Hector, Telemachus
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The odyssey: main divisions future: death of achilleus; trojan horse; the sack of troy all still events in the, hektor has been redeemed, spiritual redemption of achilleus. Significance of poem"s final focus being (ektor rather than achilleus: we don"t see much about achilleus but we see the funeral of (ektor. Narrative begins in the 10th year of odysseus"s wanderings. Books 5-(cid:883)(cid:884): odysseus"s journey from troy back to )thaca: odysseus"s wanderings (cid:523)(cid:883). (cid:883)-10) (p. 27, telemachos"s journey to pylos and sparta (cid:523)(cid:884). (cid:885)(cid:891)(cid:891)ff(cid:524, menelaos"s (cid:523)and (elen"s) detour to egypt (4. 351-587) Books 1-4 focus on telemachus; often reffered to as the telemachy. Paralleled by agamemnon"s topsy-turvy home (1. 35-41) (p. 28) People coming into the house as guests and serving themselves. She is not lying for her husband, but against him. She can"t send the suitors away, so she just keeps them in line. Helen and menelaos (4. 137-154; 4. 259-264) (p. 68; p. 72: father son relationships. Odysseus and telemachos (1. 115-117) (p. 30); (1. 292-297) (p. 34); (4. 140-150) (p. 68-69)
