CLASSIC 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Odysseus, Atreus, Net.
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Adjacti-es towards odysseus: wise, crafty, good speaker. Play opens with athena and odysseeus standing in front of the tent of ajax. Right from the outset we ha-e that helping friends, harming enemies ethic. His enemy is ajax, and he doesn"t do this, he does not harm his eney. Odyssey follows ajax because he slaughtered the animals in attempt to destroy their leaders. Odysseus re-eals his purpose in fornt of ajax. Athena then re-eals that ajax was intedning ot murder greek leaders (including. Athena doesn"t say why shes doing this, but she really did this because shes upset with him because she offered him aid in battle and he refused it. She e-en wants to display his madness to odysseus, but when odysseus declines the offer because he is anxious that ajax might do something e-il in his madness, E-en the gods describe to him the pleasure of harming ones enemies.
