CLAS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Odysseus
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We guess that the odyssey & the illiad were written around 700bc. The odyssey is written in ancient greek. Odysseus is striving for his wife penelope, but he is staying with calypso. Odysseus will achieve his goal and make it home, but his crew will not. Homer states all this in the first page of the book o. The crew doesn"t make it & it"s their own fault. Zeus raises the question of divine responsibility vs. human responsibility: humans are always blaming a higher being power for their misfortune when really it"s their own foolishness/fault. How will we get there: wisdom o. People who fail and blame everyone but themselves. The characters who listen to the teachers (divine or not) are more likely to succeed. The gods help the humans see the error of certainity o. Some characters are unwilling to see things could change (ex. The gods inspire the humans to believe they can reach their goal (ex.