Lecture 10 Flashcards

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Odyssey vs. The Iliad

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  • starts off with invocation of muses
  • talks about specific gods (Zeus in the Iliad, Hyperion in the Odyssey)
  • starts with negative note of description of death
  • tells us exactly what will happen in the beginning
  • starts toward the end of the war. (medias res)
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Beginning (Athena)

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  • Athena causes a storm because she’s angry that Ajax raped Cassandra in her temple and scatters all the Greeks and this is how Odysseus first gets lost
  • when he gets back she’s no longer angry with him and she becomes his major supporter in getting him home
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Zeus on nostos

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  • gods aren’t responsible for all of mortals’ issues
  • mortals cause their own issues
  • story of Aegisthus who marries Agamemnon’s wife and then murders Agamemnon. Later Aegisthus is murdered. Shows homecomings aren’t always good and mortals bring their bad luck upon themselves
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Penelope in Ithica

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  • want to marry her off because that will give the suitors a step ahead in obtaining the kingship
  • Telemachus (his son) resents the suitors trying to marry his mom
  • they’re taking advantage of xenia
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Meeting Odysseus

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  • crying because he wants to go home but Calypso has trapped him and won’t let him leave
  • trapped for 7 years
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Odysseus compared to common greek heroes

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  • crying (lots of heroes do this)

- conflict with female force common to Greek heroes

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Hermes and Calypso

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  • really wants to return home
  • only allowed to leave when Hermes comes down to tell Calypso that she has to let Odysseus go
  • She complains that any time a goddess has a human lover the gods take him away but it’s totally fine for the gods to have dozens
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Odysseus’ intro vs. Achilles

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  • Achilles is full of rage and whole story is about that while Odysseus is full of sorrow
  • both poems involve angry god (Calypso and Apollo)
  • both struggle with loss of something (Achilles with Chreseas and Odysseus with lack of free will to return home)
  • Odysseus is very passive and Achilles is full force going head to head
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Nausicaa

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  • Odysseus meets her when he ends up on a new island after leaving Calypso’s
  • she is washing her clothes in the river
  • she invites him back to the palace but doesn’t say who he is
  • blind bard sings of the fall of Troy and the Trojan horse (Odysseus’ plan) and this makes him cry and reveal who he is.
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Polyphemus

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  • Son of Poseidon, cyclops
  • Odysseus and his men get trapped in his cave and he eats them
  • comes up with a plan to escape
  • told cyclops his name was Noman
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Odysseus’ plan

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  • get cyclops drunk and sleepy
  • stab him in the eye
  • hide on underbelly of sheep to escape the cave because he’s sitting by the entrance feeling around and letting his sheep out to pasture
  • they escape and Odysseus taunts cyclops
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Odysseus’ taunts

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  • “Odysseus the marauder did it” and where he’s from
  • lapes in judgment cause cyclops is Poseidon’s bb.
  • gives into his pride to taunt
  • Cyclops prays to poseidon asking that Odysseus never gets home but if he has to only after a very long time, on another ship, without any men, and that he arrives to troubles at home
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