PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nostoi, Preface, Odysseus

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Overview of lecture: the odyssey and greek myth, the proem to the odyssey, athena visits telemakhos; the major themes of odyssey book 1. The odyssey: the story of odysseus" homecoming to ______________________: odysseus meets the ghost of achilles in hades: Now that great runner, grandson of aiakhos [i. e. achilles], Son of laertes and the gods of old, How did you find your way down to the dark where these dim-witted dead are camped forever, the after images of used-up men?". Akhilleus, peleus" son, strongest of all among the akhaians . We ranked you with the immortals in your lifetime, we argives did, and here your power is royal among the dead men"s shades. Think, then, akhilleus: you need not be so pained by death. ". He answered swiftly: of death from you, odysseus, light of councils. Better, i say, to break sod as a farm hand.