ENGL-UA 708 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Favorite Son, Cicones, Odysseus
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The odyssey is an epic by the blind poet homer. It tells of the journey of a man named. The poem is separated into books that each tell a small piece of the whole story. Many say that some books can be grouped together, such as the first four, which are known as the telemachy for its reference to telemakhos. Odysseus" stories show how he has grown cautious when it comes to storming a place and killing the people. Odysseus begins his story at the coast of the kikones. Odysseus and his men immediately go in and kill all the men in one village. The men of the other village then appear and kill many of odysseus" men. The sorrow odysseus felt can be expressed when he says, no ship made sail next day until some shipmate/had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost/unfleshed by the kikones on that field (pg.
