CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Scheria, Odysseus
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Hermes sent to encourage odysseus to get out odysseus builds one man raft. Odysseus makes calypso to swear to an oath saying that she won"t get upset at him no matter what he does makes escape out of island afterwards. Gets caught in shipwreck goddess ino-leucothea (protects seafarers) appears and gives him a veil and pushes him onto the shore of scheria. Alkinoos (king) and arete (queen) daughter (nausicaa) Odysseus falls asleep in bed of olive leaves when he arrives. Athena encourages nausicaa to do laundry (childhood initiation) near where odysseus is sleeping. Hero arrives in town, in disguise, taunted, and suffers. Odysseus presented to arete, mom of nausicaa.
