PSYC 2022 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Odyssey, Odysseus, Homer

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2022
• Professor: Edward Haltrecht

Document Summary

Overview of lecture: the odyssey and greek myth, the proem to the odyssey, athena visits telemakhos; the major themes of odyssey book 1. The nostoi myths: nostos (pl. nostoi) = homecoming. Nostalgia= pain associated with thinking of homecoming longing for yesteryear / home . The odyssey: the story of dysseus" homecoming to itaca/ ithaka: odysseus meets the ghost of achilles in hades: Now that great runner, grandson of aiakhos [i. e. achilles], Son of laertes and the gods of old, How did you find your way down to the dark where these dim-witted dead are camped forever, the after images of used-up men?". Akhilleus, peleus" son, strongest of all among the akhaians(greece) . We ranked you with the immortals in your lifetime, we argives (greece)did, and here your power is royal among the dead men"s shades. Think, then, akhilleus: you need not be so pained by death. ". Et me hear no smooth talk of death from you, odysseus, light of councils.