CAMS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thrinacia, Odysseus
7 Jun 2018
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Book 11
Odysseus goes to the Underworld
Circe tells him to talk to Tiresias to find his way home
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Odysseus talks to
Elpenor: drunk
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Agamemnon
Killed by his wife, Clytemneshro, as soon as he gets
home
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She killed him because he killed their daughter
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Achilles
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His Mother
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Book 12
Sirens
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Scylla and Charybdis they pass by
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Thrinacia- Island of Helios (sun)
Odysseus' men eat the cattle that are sacred to Helios
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Zeus causes a storm to kill all of Odysseus' men
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Odysseus ends up washing up onto the Island of Calypso
and spending 7 years there, again
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Discussion Topics
Is death good?
Greeks are very interested in the mortal world
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Some have been set to be punished
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Achilles' regret
Can't help his family
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Heroic values are useless
Young death is better than being forgotten
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Regret
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New perspective on old values
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Honor of Family
Each warrior ensures honor family
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Family continues to remember warrior
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Warrior owes
Protection
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Glory
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What behavior is punished in the after life?
If you don’t listen to the gods
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Greed- Tantalus
Killed his son and served him to the Gods
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Stole nector and ambrosia
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Sisyphus
Cheats death twice
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Tityus
Tried to rape Leto
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Direspecting the gods can make your after life hell
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Odyssey 11,12
Monday, January 29, 2018
10:13 AM
