Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Aegisthus, Argos, Eumaeus

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Identity, disguise, and recognition: all kinds of people pretending to be people who they are not, or actually wearing disguise, odysseus use of disguise leads to powerful recognition scene in second half of poem, endurance, cunning intelligence. House of atreus (argos: odysseus has so much bad shit happen to him but he keeps on going. Anticleia (daughter of autolycus) + laertes (king of ithaca) Odysseus (further removed from divine inheritance, but is descended from trickster god, and he has these qualities) Telemachus says he doesn(cid:495)t think his father will ever return even though people come and tell him he is going to come home: athena says she is someone else, some merchant, but she says that her and. Tiresias: meets tiresias finally, tiresias says you will get to an island, with cattle of sun god, which. Circe(cid:495)s island: (e(cid:495)s been warned that he should not listen to song, as no man has been.