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Odessey Critics Flashcards

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Emily Wilson (Feminist problems)

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‘The silencing of female voices, and the dangers of female agency, are central problems in the poem’

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‘The silencing of female voices, and the dangers of female agency, are central problems in the poem’

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Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson (Goddesses)

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‘Calypso, Aphrodite, and Circe provide passionate models of female power - idealised fantasies of how much agency mortal women might have, if only social circumstances were completely different’

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‘Calypso, Aphrodite, and Circe provide passionate models of female power - idealised fantasies of how much agency mortal women might have, if only social circumstances were completely different’

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Emily Wilson

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William Charles Schaefer (Odysseus’ invincibility)

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‘When coupled with his courage and fighting ability make him invincible’

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‘When coupled with his courage and fighting ability make him invincible’

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William Charles Schaefer

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William Charles Schaefer (Odysseus’ cowardice)

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‘Odysseus cannot be called a coward because of any of these […] incidents; rather, he is the greater hero because of his reactions in those situations. When he trembles and fears, as all men do, he becomes more plausibly human, and not some unreal literary creation’

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‘Odysseus cannot be called a coward because of any of these […] incidents; rather, he is the greater hero because of his reactions in those situations. When he trembles and fears, as all men do, he becomes more plausibly human, and not some unreal literary creation’

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William Charles Schaefer

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Richard Jebb (Odysseus’ failings)

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‘Sometimes, when the most deadly danger is imminent he fails in common prudence through too much curiosity […] which leads him to tempt fate’

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‘Sometimes, when the most deadly danger is imminent he fails in common prudence through too much curiosity […] which leads him to tempt fate’

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Richard Jebb

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Richard Jebb (Odysseus’ wit)

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‘He has wit enough to extricate himself from any difficulty, and fortitude enough to bear whatever the gods send’

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‘He has wit enough to extricate himself from any difficulty, and fortitude enough to bear whatever the gods send’

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Richard Jebb

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Richard Jebb (Odysseus vs Achilles)

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‘Odysseus is also an ideal type; but he is not lifted above ordinary emulation in the same degree as this dazzling embodiment of youthful force and vigour which is presented by the son of Peleus. […] The Greeks saw in Odysseus no unapproachable hero, but the great exemplar of certain qualities which everyone might cultivate’

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‘Odysseus is also an ideal type; but he is not lifted above ordinary emulation in the same degree as this dazzling embodiment of youthful force and vigour which is presented by the son of Peleus. […] The Greeks saw in Odysseus no unapproachable hero, but the great exemplar of certain qualities which everyone might cultivate’

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Richard Jebb

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Michaels

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Odysseus is a trickster and a liar… morally ambiguous

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Odysseus is a trickster and a liar… morally ambiguous

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Michaels

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Sadler

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Loyalty towards his allies is Odysseus’ redeeming quality

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Loyalty towards his allies is Odysseus’ redeeming quality

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Sadler

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Graziosi

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Odysseus is a comic character, a tragic hero, a villain - he could never and cannot yet be pinned down

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Odysseus is a comic character, a tragic hero, a villain - he could never and cannot yet be pinned down

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Graziosi

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Nicholson

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Odysseus’ name means ‘to be hated’

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Odysseus’ name means ‘to be hated’

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Nicholson

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Clarke

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Odysseus moves beyond the glamour of heroism to a more fundamental level of the human condition, where the hero suceeds only by accepting the inevitablity of his lowliness

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Odysseus moves beyond the glamour of heroism to a more fundamental level of the human condition, where the hero suceeds only by accepting the inevitablity of his lowliness

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Clarke

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Jones

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Penelope is the equal of Odysseus her ‘endurance the equal of her husbands’

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Penelope is the equal of Odysseus her ‘endurance the equal of her husbands’

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Jones

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Griffin

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Penelope is a model of fidelity

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Penelope is a model of fidelity

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Griffin

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Burkeley

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Penelope unconsciously enjoys the attention of the suitors and does not want Odysseus to come back

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Penelope unconsciously enjoys the attention of the suitors and does not want Odysseus to come back

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Burkeley

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Duffy

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No passage in the poem which unequivocally states the gods are subordinated to fate

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No passage in the poem which unequivocally states the gods are subordinated to fate

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Duffy

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Nicholson

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Odyssey is about the choices people make when faced with the deepest challenges of their lives

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Kullman

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Athene’s interventions mainly serve the purpose to assert the moral principles of the rule of Zeus

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Odyssey is about the choices people make when faced with the deepest challenges of their lives

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Nicholson

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Athene’s interventions mainly serve the purpose to assert the moral principles of the rule of Zeus

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Kullman

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Silk

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few modern readers condone the idea of revenge but the odyssey does

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significant exception to revenge is the mutilation of melanthius

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Segal

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few modern readers condone the idea of revenge but the odyssey does

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Silk

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Segal

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significant exception to revenge is the mutilation of melanthius

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Beard

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First recorded example of a man telling a woman to shut up

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Knights

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Athene is the power behind the plot in the Odyssey

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Odyssey is first recorded example of a man telling a woman to shut up

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Beard

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Athene is the power behind the plot in the Odyssey

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Knights

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Rieu

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Homer makes the growing up of Telemachus an issue of the Epic

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Homer makes the growing up of Telemachus an issue of the Epic

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Rieu

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Fowler

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Odysseus’ choice of his Ithica over other glamorous alternatives represents a clear affirmation of moral purpose

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Odysseus’ choice of his Ithica over other glamorous alternatives represents a clear affirmation of moral purpose

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Fowler

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Jones

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Ancient Greeks placed an absolute value on a mans loyalty to his househole

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Ancient Greeks placed an absolute value on a mans loyalty to his househole

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Jones

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Griffin (oikos)

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The integrity of the oikos is the central and dominating issue of the Odyssey

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Armitage

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The real mystery is not whether Odysseus will get home but rather if he will find out who he is

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The integrity of the oikos is the central and dominating issue of the Odyssey

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Griffin

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The real mystery is not whether Odysseus will get home but rather if he will find out who he is

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Armitage

54
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Selby (2 quotes)

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xenia creates a bond between ‘self’ and ‘other’
bad xenia is ‘flagged as a cause for concern’

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xenia creates a bond between ‘self’ and
‘other’

bad xenia is ‘flagged as a cause for concern’

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Selby

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Roisman

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xenia appears to be done through fear, not generosity

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xenia appears to be done through fear, not generosity

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Roisman

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Davids

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Since Telemachus was his son, that was a good enough reason to trust him

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Since Telemachus was his son, that was a good enough reason to trust him

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Davids

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Peter Jones

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men and women are of ‘two worlds’

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men and women are of ‘two worlds’

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Peter Jones

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Emily Wilson

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death of serving girls is full of ‘gruesome inhumanity and pathos’

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death of serving girls is full of ‘gruesome inhumanity and pathos’

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Emily Wilson

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natalie haynes (xenia)

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‘xenia was a cruel part of how social fabric worked’

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