CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pelike, Cretan Bull, Cerveteri
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Way that stories of thebes & mycenae told concept of miasma driving stories: shows way they thought about guilt. What matters about characters shows what mattered in society. Counterpart to odysseus & his cleverness: hard to understand odysseus w/o what penelope tells us about him, as clever, or more clever than he is. Waiting at home, resisting suitors attempting to hold her hostage. But the bed is connected to the house (a living olive tree) & cannot be moved w. o destroying the house . Gets confirmation of his identity, & that he is worthy of her (on her level of intelligence) Other noteworthy qualities: xenia treating strangers as a friend. Tolerating the suitors eating their way thru her home, property, money. The suitors do not uphold the idea, behaving like boars so her adherence to it is even more striking: fidelity quite comparable in virtue to odysseus.
