CLASSIC 28 Lecture Notes - Telemachus, Moral Agency, Odysseus
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The gods are giving but theyre not good but just in a functional way: more common in iliad than odyssey. In representing human life, it seems that they in effect define what it is to be male and what it is to be female in the suffering and actions and places of these. Brook holmes"s gender: antiquity and its legacy (ancients & If you think about the odyssey, what is it that males do that make them boys and then men: telemachos. Not yet a man in the beginning! He"s still immature, although the presence of athena touches him in such a way that he gains a maturity: tells penelope to get out of the way of men"s affairs. Line 354 go therefore back in the house and read it its important. It"s as if women and the activities appropriate for women are inside the house (domestic), and men"s are supposed to be public.
