HONR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zeus, Lochos, Scheria
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Story about a man, symbol for humanity, trying to figure ourselves out. Polytropic: many twists and turns, unpredictable, clever. Eurycleia: the scar from the boar on the hunting trip. The kind of marriage odysseus has and wishes for nausicaa in. When odysseus goes to the underworld, meets his mother and other greek warriors. Meets tiresias who tells him not to eat helios" cattle in order to atone to poseidon but his men eat from it anyway. Odysseus and telemachus, succeed and kill suitors. Helen puts it in drinks when menelaus, telemachus and others are. The gods get involved in the return journey, deliver justice to suitors talking about the trojan war. Zeus xenios: patron god of hospitality and beggars, fundamental to universe. Athena tells odysseus he is in ithaca but he wants proof. She dispels the mist surrounding them and shows him the landscape. The gods like trickery and cunning (athena is proud when.
