CLA204H1 Lecture 4: Week 4 - The Odyssey
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Speak memory speak of the cunning hero proem about heroic identity (weakness and strength). Odysseus is the son of laertes and anticlea, husband of penelope, father of telemachus. King of ithaka, contrasts with other figures of greek heroic myth through the emphasis on special intellectual abilities. Epithets polymetis (of many counsels), polymechanos (resourceful, finding out how to get things done), polytlas (much enduring) indicates a special capacity for suffering and an extraordinary intellectual skills which demonstrates time and again during the trojan. These include: the invention of the wooden horse, recruiting achilles and his son. Neoptolemus from the island of skyros, bringing back philoctetes, theft of the palladium (steals statue so troy will fall) Return home before reaching ithaca (books 1-12), return to home of ithaca (13-24) The odyssey tells of the critical last 40 days of the return home of the veteran of the.
