POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Odysseus
10 Apr 2016
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Socrates compares himself at various times to heracles and to. Achilles who has always been a role model for the people at the time: after being found guilty, he proposes a counter-punishment of a lifetime of free meals. Upon return to ithaca, odysseus must kill the suitors that have been occupying his home. Aided by athena the goddess of wisdom. After the war of troy, odysseus got separated for 20 years from the army because of a great storm. Odysseus proposes a collective security agreement to agamemnon. During the time of odysseus absence, many suitors try to marry. Odysseus" wife penelope and devours all odysseus richness. Odysseus came back and slaughters all the suitors: down the hall they panicked wild like herds stampeding, driven mad as the darting gadfly strikes . Followed by many of the young men from the rich families: including alcibiades (known as socrates" lover, plato was another follower.
