HUMA 1105 Lecture 26: The Odyssey Books 11 & 12
22 Jan 2019
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Odysseus is recounting everything that happened with him to the phaeacians . Odysseus is constructing a story, how he went from trojan to broken man. Text is asking to question what are the mysteries of the world. What are we going to do when we face the. Is he the same man that left troy. How can one person endure so many misfortunes and terrible things. Book 13 takes place on island of ithaca as he is claiming property and establishing control man in control of his space. Not only do you change also the place changes. Is ithaca going to be the same place it was 20 years ago, no. Last week we spoke about first leaving troy in full military mode- raiding, killing men and suffering some losses. Adventure one:- continuation of iliad - still in iliadic word. We begin to cross over some storms. the storm shakes everything up, everything is disoriented.
