GTBOOKS 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thrinacia, Scheria, Laestrygonians
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Arete asks odysseus who he is and where he is from. He only recounts his story about calypso this allo(cid:449)s for : 1) narrative suspense, 2) demonstrates his hyper-caution, 3) it makes the phaeacians episode a sort of preparation for the ithacan books. Phaeacians are nice people and decide to entertain odysseus with athletes they invite. Odysseus to compete you should not compete with your host. When odysseus loses his temper at the games he almost gives his identity away: odysseus said that he was the second best archer at troy, but he did not actually bring his bow to troy. The adventures are told in first person narrative. Ea(cid:272)h set of ad(cid:448)e(cid:374)tures follo(cid:449)s the (cid:862)short-short-lo(cid:374)g(cid:863) st(cid:455)le. 2) aeolus/laestrygonians/circe (underworld is part of this episode) Hosts who make you forget that you want to return home. Adventure #1: ciones: stupid and greedy, lotus eaters: make you forget your return, cyclops: eats you.