Lecture 12 Flashcards

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Sirens

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  • half bird, half woman, lure men to their deaths by singing
  • Odysseus gets past them by covering his sailors’ ears and ties himself to the mast of the ship
  • he wants to understand the song
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Scylla

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  • part woman, part dogs, part snakes

- grabs people and eats them

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Charybdis:

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-massive whirlpool

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Circe’s aid

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  • helps Odysseus get past all the obstacles

- positive female influence that helps him pass the female trials

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Feminist viewpoint

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-women are powerful and can be either positive or negative

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Jungian viewpoint

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  • animus/anima
  • the female monsters are way unbalanced and throw off men around them
  • When Odysseus is near these monsters he is in grave danger because of the imbalance
  • Circe seems to be out of balance when she turns his men into pigs and wants to unman him but now seems more balanced as she helps him
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Island of Helios

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-crew eats cattle despite the warnings from Tiresias and Circe

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Odysseus’ Nostros

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  • sent home and has to deal with his wife’s suitors
  • kills them all
  • disguises himself as beggar with Athena’s help
  • doesn’t just burst in because of Agamemnon’s warning and he has to find out who’s with him and who’s against him.
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Penelope on Odysseus’ Nostros

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  • makes him prove himself to make sure he is who he says he is.
  • first has to string and shoot his bow, a feat only he can acomplish
  • then he has to reveal the secret about his marriage bed, that it’s made out of a live olive tree
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Penelope as a match

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  • wise and thoughtful and can match Odysseus’ schemes and wit
  • animus and anima in balance and are proper balances for each other
  • penelope seems to be in just as much control as Odysseus
  • depicted as an ideal marriage
  • Penelope is so far above other women and is a hero in her own right.
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