CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Telegonus, Iron Age, Hoopoe

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

After math of the trojan war : homecoming of greeks. Odysseus retur(cid:374)s to itha(cid:272)a a(cid:374)d i(cid:374) ho(cid:373)er"s od(cid:455)sse(cid:455) (cid:449)e are o(cid:374)l(cid:455) half (cid:449)a(cid:455) through the poe(cid:373). His homecoming is not safe, he is returning to a troubled kingdom. Odysseus has to scout out his own kingdom and pretends to be a beggar. (he has been away for. 10 years) he has lost all his ships and all his men and he has information from the gods that the island is playing host to rich arrogant princes trying to court his wife (assuming to be widowed). Penelope is fending them off and staying to her husband. Pretext she announces to the suitors that she will decide on a new husband on a new tapestry once it is completed (she weaves it in the day and unravels in the night to delay suitors) Odysseus only tells his son and one other agriculture swine herder tending to pigs.