CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Kleos, Odysseus, Scheria
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Oreste"s kills his mother (clytemnestra) because she killed agamemenon his father. Apollo sides with orestes because he believes that orestes is right to avenge his father. Mother or father. (obviously father during this time) Also because apollo has no mother, just a father (born from zeus"s head) The odyssey is a whole epic that is devotes to coming back from the trojan war. There is a similarity between odysseus and agamemenon. Takes odysseus 10 years to get home, (war also lasts for 10 years) so twenty years after he left. Orestes takes him about 10 years to avenge his father and kill his mother. So he does this around when he was 20 years old. Odysseus is also scared that his wife may kill him, just like agamemenon. Telemachus is the main character in the first 4 books, who is also 20 years old by the time.
