The Odyssey Flashcards
Odysseus quotes
‘Other men die once; you will now die twice’
‘Are you some goddess or a mortal woman?’ To Nausicaa
‘You are so persuasive, so quick-witted, so self possessed’ - Athene about o’s false Cretan tales
Odysseus scholars
‘An anti-hero, a mean selfish time-server’
‘Man of ‘Metis’ is essentially a deceiver’- Jones
‘Most heroic quality is his cunning’ - silk
‘Faced not by his equals but by his inferiors or by monsters’ - Bowra
Gods quotes
‘A lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us the source of their troubles’
‘The dark date that is stalking them so near’ athene in b2 about suitors
Gods scholars
‘Even the god are subject to fate’ - Hastings
‘Attributed with human emotions’ - Johnson
‘A society where our hero can have close relationships with the divine’ - Jenkyns
Epic poetry
‘They carries them off like fishes on a spear’ — Laestrygonians and crew
‘Thick as the petals of a hyacinth in bloom’ - Odysseus’ hair
‘Like the north wind at harvest time’ - storm of Poseidon
Blade of calypsos axe ‘handle of olive wood fixed firmly to its head’
Nostos quote
‘Sitting disconsolate on the shore… tormenting himself with tears’
‘Is my kingdom safe?’ Odysseus at underworld
Rejects immortality and marriage, frustration at curse of Poseidon ‘let him come late’
Women - Odyssey
‘Undid the work’ penelopes funeral shroud
‘Only one to stand firm’ Nausicaa
‘You are outraged it a goddess sleeps openly with a man even if she has chosen him as her husband’ calypso
‘altering your voice to mimic each man’s wife’ Helen
Women scholars Odyssey
‘Their domestic roles are clearly delineated’ - Chrystal
‘Penelope is not lesser than her husband’ - Felson
‘contrast between her and the disloyal wife of Agamemnon is repeatedly emphasised’
‘To men, women are inscrutable’— griffin
‘Odyssey traces deep male fears about female power’ - Wilson
