ENGL 221 Lecture 16: Intro to the Odyssey notes
6 Feb 2018
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Nostos epic : how did the iliad continue, several poems (all lost); among them: nostois ( returns, homecomings ) = all the. Greek leaders had to pay for the evil and sacrileges they had committed when capturing troy: the odyssey is nostos epic, while the iliad is kleos epic. Sources of the odyssey: novel = the adventures of man who returns to his home and nds his household threatened, merchants" and sailors" stories (travels, adventures, etc. ) very popular in eastern. = odysseus fought at troy (antagonist to achilles, see iliad book 9) Odyssey?: 21st century, 2010: ruins of a palace were found in the north of the island, a british-dutch archaeological team is excavating at kephalonia, an island near. Ithaca, maintaining that odysseus"s ithaca was the peninsula of paliki. The odyssey begins in media res, like the iliad. First lines, a short summary: odysseus sacked troy and then as driven far journey, saw many people, and suffered a great deal.
