CLASSICS 1B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-100: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Isocolon, Laestrygonians
13 Jan 2016
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Begins 10 years after the fall of troy (city has been taken, plundered, men killed and city has been burnt down) It is not an easy journey and the gods make it more difficult to punish those who were sacrilegious actions. All the greeks have returned home except for odysseus (home is ithaca) He was knocked out and held captive at an island called calypso. Local noble men turn up at ithaca and wants penelope (o"s wife) to choose one of them to marry so they can take over o"s power/position. Wove a blanket every night and took it apart to trick the men. Gets no help from her son telemachus (about 20 years old) Poem opens with a brief outline of this background and then a council of the gods at olympus. Athena asks zeus why he has forgotten o. Poseidon is upset since o blinded one of his sons polyphemus.
