Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eumaeus, Odysseus, Swineherd
5 May 2016
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In the books from nine to twelve, the strangest things/events occur. Odysseus takes over from demodocus - poet gure. Narrates events in 1st person most fantastical episodes. Two episode of holding men back (kikonians and lotos eaters. Odysseus stamps name on event: must give identity for kleos, but giving name means he turns around (polytropos) for more years. Odysseus is in search for life experiences. Odysseus is gradually regaining his identity (circe recognizes him at odysseus of. Midpoint of epic: odysseus as man who lives twice: dies symbolic death before being brought back to ithaca life. Meets: elipinor (odysseus man who fell off the roof), tiresias, his mother, women who suffered in love, achilles (great hero of the iliad/the reason they won at troy) and. Agamemnon (whose wife killed him with her lover) Odysseus tries to embrace his mother three times, but goes right through her (because she is dead/died from the grief of waiting for him to come home)
