ENG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Menelaus, Eumaeus, Odysseus
22 Feb 2017
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What does this say about heroism: odysseus offers them land, tells them that they are brothers in arms to. Odysseus pretends he has gone insane, so what agamemnon does to test him is put infant telemachus in a field and tells him to plow him in half. Amphimedon was involved: agamemnon congratulate penelope rather than empathize with the suitors. Why: agamemnon"s wife was disloyal and this resulted in his death. Unlike his situation, penelope was loyal and odysseus was able to defeat the suitors. This is the exact opposite of his situation: reflects agamemnon"s prioritizes: he is carrying this chip on his shoulder with what happened to him, agamemnon immediately knows that there are all these suitors there; there were. 108 aristoi that just arrived to the underworld: his immediate hypothesis is that either they were sailing somewhere and got drowned in the ocean or that they were raiding or in war and got killed there.
