ANCS-1006EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sea Monster, Telemachus, Lightning
15 Oct 2018
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Describes odysseus like he lives in the 8th century instead of the 12th: main quality of odysseus. Odysseus leaves troy and has to nd his way back home. He has to learn to live in a world of peace, the wars are over. At home his wife is besieged by suitors. He meets various people and from books ix to xii he tells his own story claiming that he met monsters sirens and gods: many ways to read the story, one of them as a rite of passage. Athena covers odysseus in a mist to be invisible to go to the castle. Odysseus kneels in front of her and the mist clears she is shocked but welcomes him. The king and queen take care of him: who comes back from being gone (dead, would become a citizens by going between the priestess of athena, kneel in.
