HONR 1101 Lecture Notes - Odysseus
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Having read the odyssey before during my freshman year of high school, i am slightly familiar with the story. This being said, i know that hospitality is a large motif in the story and that there are many opportunities throughout the poem to explore the role of hospitality in homer"s world. To begin, it is intriguing that homer already gives reader their first glance at the importance of hospitality on the fifth page of the book. Because the poem begins en media res, the story has already begun, and athena visits telemachus in ithaca. She arrives at the door of his house while the suitors are celebrating and dining, and. Telemachus sees her before anyone else does: straight to the door he came, irked with himself / to think a visitor had been kept there waiting then he said warmly: / / there will be time to tell your errand later" (i, 150-155).
