PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Purgatory, Thrinacia, Anticlea
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King alcinous offers his daughter in marriage to nausicaa. Athena makes him look like a god and nausicaa is attracted to him. Creates safety in a dangerous situation (her handmaids ran away) Flashback narrative technique is used in this book. She tells him to follow her in a little bit (cid:523)so they don"t look like they"re together) Phaicians are on edge of civilization so they are not always welcoming. * was the first time in western literature that the flashback method was used* Defeat because of over- reaching (they were greedy and got defeated) Eats his guests, so he is a bad host. Wine: a mark of civilization and is always diluted (used in a plan) Odysseus wants to meet the owner of this cave he stumbled upon. Eat lotus flower= forget everything and have no desire to go home. Cyclops gets drunk on straight strong wine (20 parts water to 1 part wine)
