HUM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eurymachus, Odysseus
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Radiating land, nucleus as fresh water, then the land, then the herding area, then wilderness. *from his description of this land, shows he is focused on potential of the land rather than what is already there. Founding of scheria he flung up walls around the city, built the houses, raised the gods" temples and shared the land for plowing (6. 8 12) Iliad"s rural inhabitants: hunters, herdsman, reference to people who live in the countryside. *people engaged in agricultural live with work, while noble people, merchants, armed man live in the city: ethical geography. The geography contrast maps the moral contrast. Hermes said that it had remarkable natural beauty, overwhelmed. (he does prefer a more civilized environment) Both enclosed with walls, fertile, divided spatially, crops carefully maintained. Social contrast, paying in sweat versus consuming free of charge. Poor man must survive by offering service to wealthier man. His dangerous idea of ownership should be based on work than status.
