CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Odysseus, Clytemnestra, Deiphobus
19 May 2014
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Homer, odyssey 11: what is a libation? (lines 24-6, i spaded up the votive pit, and poured/libations round it to the unnumbered dead:/sweet milk and honey ) Identify the speaker, for speeches, or context (i. e. , what, briefly, is going on in the poem, who is doing the action described), for narrative passages. Homer, odyssey 11: i slept on kirke"s roof, then could not see the long steep backward ladder, coming down, and fell that height. Elpenor: under strange sail shall you come home, to find your own house filled with trouble: insolent men eating your livestock as they court your lady. teiresias. I bit my lip rising perplexed, with longing to embrace her, and tried three times, putting my arms around her, but she went sifting through my hands, impalpable. Amphitrion"s true wife, alkmene, mother, as all men know, of lionish herakles, conceived when she lay close in zeus"s arms.
