CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Greek Mythology, Odysseus, Slut
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Circe"s women give the men a good meal and it turns them into swine lol men"s true form but the story is a warning about the hazards of a good meal served by a lovely stranger. She is a witch you don"t want to meet head on. Day by day odysseus gets more comfortable in this new life of leisure. Goddess to take care of him on an inviting island he has to be reminded of the nostos to go home this breaks the spell he was under that had made him forget who he is. Journey of odysseus is model for aeneas - aeneas avoids pitfalls that. Aeneas safely glides past the twin dangers of scylla and charybdis unlike odysseus, he is not endangered by females. Queen of carthage takes her own life with a sword aeneas leaves behind.
