CLAS 2520 Lecture 19: Odysseus, Orestes (Slides w/ Extra Lecture Notes)

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2520
• Professor: Rob Nau

Document Summary

Odysseus never really wanted to go to the trojan war in the first place. Takes 10 years to get home: he had revealed his name to polyphemus who prayed to poseidon, his father, to delay the return home for odysseus) Od(cid:455)sseus(cid:859) (cid:271)iggest dela(cid:455) is (cid:272)aused (cid:271)(cid:455) pol(cid:455)phe(cid:373)us, a c(cid:455)(cid:272)lops a(cid:374)d so(cid:374) of poseido(cid:374), (cid:449)ho(cid:373) Odysseus blinds: polyphemus is impious and hates olympian gods. Odysseus himself is the narrator and he tells his story at a banquet in the kingdom of the. Phaiakians, just before he arrives home: the encounter with the cyclops is one of the many fairy-tale/sinbad like adventures he has wandering the mediterranean. The cyclopes are portrayed as uncivilized and anti-social. Forward we sailed, regretful of all we were leaving behind. In time we came to the land of the arrogant lawless cyclopes, Who sow no crops with their hands, nor harvest the ripened grain, But entrust all that to heaven; so all their needs are supplied .