CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Eurycleia, Atreus, Myrtilus
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Od. to eurycleia and so by their folly they have brought upon themselves an ugly fate. Talking about the suitors, lawless, reckless, didn"t care about who came to household, still mistreated: because of transgression, they are slain. Called catious as ever (not for othing) Even when son and nurse insist on his identity, she acts strangely; quote penelope debating how to react to odysseus let your mother test me in the hall . They just look at each other, and basically he says no other woman would be able to handle her husband being gone for 20 years . Finds his father (with telemachus) finds his father working in a feild, very old. On this same day, minor battle in ithaca (relatives of all the suitors try to kill od) Scene shows maturation of telemachus (realizes what its like to fight, to be kind)