HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peisistratos, Odysseus, Trojan War

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2100
• Professor: Jeremy Trevett

Document Summary

Man of the sea) informed him that odysseus was alive but captured on the island of the nymph calypso. It seems as though telemachus is setting out on his own brief odyssey when traveling to pylos and sparta to find out more info about his father. The story-telling supplied by both nestor & menelaus serves a dual purpose; it provides telemachus with information and memories, but also gives the reader key details of odysseus journey both during and since the trojan war. Telemachus struggles with the suitors in his home somewhat parallels orestes struggles when having to face the task of killing his father"s murderer.