CLAS104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Clotho, Odysseus, Bad Life
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Homer"s view -background - odysseys is stuck on the island of circe and odysseys has to get home. Circe told odysseys that he has to go to the underworld and speak with the dead prophet tiresias (blind never wrong prophet) theban seer: location. All stories say that there is a cave entrance to go all the way down to the underworld. Except circe says you must cross into the land of chimeras a gloomy land to get to the underworld. He needs to get to the end of the world across the ocean. The underground area of the dead opens up at the sides of the earth explains why. Odysseys has to go the edge of the world. A shadowy ghost like figure that don"t have their wits and their minds are lost so they don"t remember anything or anyone.