HUMA W1123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Telemachus, Eumaeus, Odysseus
29 Sep 2016
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Interesting back-story: he was once royalty (book xv) Endurance: odysseus tells telemachos to endure even if odysseus is being hit by spears i. ii. Indicates odysseus learned his lesson from prior trials, such as with the cyclopes. He demonstrates that he is more enduring now: odysseus endures when antino s throws a horn at him, talking to the dog argos argos waited 20 years for his master to return i. ii. The is one of the only characters to recognize odysseus right away. The maid servant who washed his feet also recognized odysseus by his scar: homer talks himself up through similes i. ii. He compares odysseus to a singer such as homer. He also spares the singer at the end. Both weep and sleep a lot: female characters seem to always be monstrous and have male characteristics. Revenge: really destroys all of them, the most evil ones get killed quickly and not honorably.
