AR104 Lecture 4: Greek World Lecture 4.docx
23 Sep 2013
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Name means much spoken of or famous or abounding in songs and legends or. Polyphemos violated the laws of xenia by eating the men. 3 main qualities of odysseus: resourcefulness (polytropos, intelligence (polymetis) trickster, self-control. Penelope, circle and calypso (part god): helpers. Penelope: main female character in the odyssey: a heroine; a trickster; sign of intelligence and cunning; wise; cautious, epithet echephron; resourceful; loyal to odysseus. Circle: witch, weaving image, inscrutable; helper (told him about scylla, charyblis, and. What the poem is about: family values, life is horrible, triumph of the human spirit. Characteristics of the polis: autonomus (self-governing, controlled a territory, fortified walls, temples with a patron deity, agora (marketplace, specialists, early polis ruled by oligarchs (rule by the fuel) except sparta; 2 kings. Southern italy (magna graecia = great greece) and sicily: pithekussai (ca. 770 bce); 1st in the west: cumae ca. 735 bce: syracuse (sicily); founded by corinth c. 734 bce.
