CLASSIC 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Odysseus, Atreus
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Week 8: prologue, neoptolemus and odysseus are walking along the shores on the island of. Lemnos and odysseus lays out the situation with philoctetes: odysseyus. Son of achilles, our coming here has a purpose, to it be loyal with more than with your body. If you should hear some strange new thing, unlike what you have heard before, still serve us; it was to serve you came here: he is hinting at what. Neoptolemus is to do: to use deceit to get philoctetes to come with them. Neoptolemus of his rank with the words, still serve us; It was to serve that you came here: odysseus then gets to the point, and notes the impossibility of him trying to persuade philocetetes, ensnare the soul of philoctetes with your words . Perhaps you wonder why you can safely meet him, why he would trust you and not me. You have come here unforced, unpledged by oaths,
