01:190:207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nekyia, Katabasis, Purgatory
6 Nov 2018
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Son of laertes, husband of penelope, father of telemachus. Greek hero who took ten years to return after the end of the trojan. Island off the western coast of modern greece. Location of a recently discovered bronze age complex similar to. Believed in the ancient world to be the home of odysseus. A literary motif wherein a character descends unto the underworld and meets a number of famous men and heroes. In the divine comedy, dante"s persona is guided through hell by the classical poet vergil and through purgatory by the classical poet. Today"s argument: the three catalogs in the nekyia (odyssey 11) function as. "plot maps" of alternative endings of the odyssey. Achilles dies at troy just as odysseus could have. Ajax loses a contest for the arms of achilles with odysseus just as. Many of the greek heroes drown and die on the voyage back from. The catalog of the denizens of the underworld imagines different presents.
