CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eidothea, Lampsacus, Reggio Calabria
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Gods in battle from iliad represent physical elements. Apollo = fire; poseidon = water; hera = air. Interpreted homer as allegory (not to be read literally) Achilles = sun, hector = moon (sun chases the moon around earth) Demeter = liver, apollo = bile: athena"s disguises. Disappears each time in form of a bird. Set a mini-odyssey on an adventure: homecoming. Son peisistratos later becomes travelling buddy of telemachus: menelaus. Long nostos (forgot to sacrifice to gods properly, gets stuck near egypt, grabs sea god) Homeric hymn s to hermes & apollo. Themius" song about nostoi makes people weep. Crafty (tried to lure out archean heroes inside trojan horse) Rues the infatuation aphrodite put on her (desire, lunatic kinda love) Menelaus will go to islands of the blessed (not underworld) because of her: clytemnestra. Helps aegisthus to kill ag with guile . Telemachus & penelope stuck until odysseus comes home. Penelope can"t be a woman of category (married/widow?)
