CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: Polymestor, Pietas, Odysseus
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Ajax the greater cousin of achilles and his alter-ego patrocles they all die in the war, odysseus is the only one who makes it back alive to. Ithaca she is the queen of fallen troy and has lost most of her sons and daughters witnesses her youngest son polydorus" body show up floating on the water, and polyxena the youngest daughter get sacrificed. Achilles faces memnon (king of ethiopians): two sons of goddesses . Roman model of the loyal and pious son (pietas = devotion/loyalty) son bearing aged father journey of the defeated trojans to their new home in rome like odysseus" journey, a nostos (homework journey. Odysseus brings wine, vintage nice ass wine, and he is popping. Odysseus can"t resist giving himself away and telling his true name this causes him to get cursed by cyclops and pisses off their dad.
