CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cicones, Ismara, Tyrant
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Heroic values and elite compeiion in the odyssey. Poem problemaizes the heroic value system, ie. puing pursuit of ime and leons above other consideraions. Danger is damaged not only to one"s fellow elite but also to the broader community. Problem is represented above all by achilles, the most extraordinary hero and the most detrimental. Land of the cicones: from ilion, wind took me to the cicones in ismaros. I pillaged the town and killed the men. 9. 41-46: once heading back to civilizaion, acing like an iliad hero would get odysseus into real trouble. Iniial success, and then troubles: first thing ater troy. Island of the cyclopes: where odysseus inds success. Teamwork, not personal glory all of the men took part in blinding. Odysseus comes to sicily, wondered into the cave of polyphemus the. First insinct of odysseus was to kill polyphemus by plunging a sword into his chest, but second guessed it.
