CLA204H1 Lecture 8: Lecture Note 8
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Great dionysia festival of competition with poetry, tragic, and comedy in. Greek word (nostos=return, return of the heroes after the war) This motif is present throughout literature, especially popular of return from. *became the boats for all purpose, in particular during the peloponnesian war. *emotionally: coming after over 10 years, keeping, regaining, building and reestablishing identity in the oikos home. *oikos institution, physical home (assets), family and relationship. *one version says that he died at the kapherian rocks. *thrown up in a whirlwind, smashed against the rocks. Other versions: punished at sea by athena, who tried and failed to kill him; Poseidon kills him for hubris, raping cassandra and for thinking he is invincible. Does not make it home, dies at sea. Blown off course by storms, ended up in egypt. Capture of proteus, a sea god, who helps menelaus. *proteus also tells him what happened to odysseus, ajax and agamemnon.
