CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Trash-Talk, Scheria, Hephaestus
26 Feb 2018
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Alkinoos and arete are descendants of poseidon. Hecatombs = sacrificing 100 bulls to the gods. In skheria, gods and humans are able to feast together. Odysseus doesn"t want to portray himself as a suitor to nausicaa. Though he does compare her beauty to artemis"s. Nausicaa wishes that odysseus would stay with them and not return to ithaca. Alkinoos, nausicaa"s father wants odysseus to marry nausicaa and give him a house. Achilles singing the klea (plural of kleos) of men. Phemius - the house band on ithaca. Is he a vision of homer? (homer was thought to be blind) He sings 3 songs in book 8. Greatest hero of menis vs greatest hero of metis. Bards had all kinds of different songs, stories (like the iliad) were lost. They realize how great a hero odysseus is. They don"t enjoy it very much - decide to have athletic games instead.
