CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Outis, Laestrygonians, Dont
12 Dec 2015
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Clas 203 lecture 32 the odyssey. Penelope is on ithaca with the suitors, procrastinating marriage in hopes. Suitors are harassing penelope and planning to sink telemachus" ship when. Odysseus is trapped on the island with calypso. >he wants to go back because he is faithful to penelope but he has no way of getting home. >his quest: returning home and re-establishing himself as king. >calypso wants him to stay and promises him immortality to stay. >he looks in the direction of home and cries for penelope. >poseidon is angry at odysseus and wants to keep him trapped. >he goes on vacation though, and goes to libya. >the second poseidon is done, athena asks zeus to make calypso let. >zeus sends hermes down to calypso to tell her to let odysseus go. >odysseus builds a raft and sails home (after 7 years) >when odysseus is at sea, poseidon comes back and is super mad to find has escaped.
