Classical Studies 2200 Lecture 15: Classics Lecture 15 - Jan 24

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Books 1-5 (telemacheia: they focus on telemachus, the athebe/eitheb | coming of age, a young man. Calypso = hiding, preserving : the suitors are pressing penelope to remarry. Refuses to remarry, lacking a statement whole household in limbo without closure: she does not have a husband, yet she is not a widow. Eating us out of house and home, and they will kill me someday. : the suitors would kill telemachus because he stands between the suitors and his mother, the gods intervene (athena). Slanders the suitors, tells telemachus to take action, essentially thrusts him into manhood in suggesting he goes against the suitors. Tuesday, january 24, 2017 marry off your mother. Telemachus begins a journey: he doesn"t not tell his mother than he is going on this journey, she frantically searches for him before she discovers where he is. This is a sign that he is a man; maturity, individualism, manhood in doing what you want: hermes visits calypso.