HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bromance, Narrative Poetry, Odysseus
11 Jan 2020
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Epic is a long narrative poem on a serious subject; written in a grand or evaluated style centered on a larger then life hero. Could be first road trip book with the moment his men leave troy. Kikonians, where they kill everyone, take plunder, and enslave the women: ah, ancient greece: when men were raging jerks and, odysseus tries to get his men to go back to sea so they can women were chattel. Gosh, we miss the old days. get home already, but the men are starving and therefore mutinous. Odysseus" men eat the lotus flower, lose their memory of home and family, and want nothing more than to stay on the island getting high. Forever: odysseus quickly rounds up his men, including the three, next they arrive at the land of the uncivilized cyclopes, giant lotus-afflicted guys, and leaves. monsters with only one eye.
