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*I know we are finishing reading up the English translation (books 23-24) this week, so if you haven’t finished it yet, I guess my post is a spoiler and you might want to skip over it!*
I finished reading the end of the english translation of the Odyssey prior to the last mid-term and wanted to comment […]
This weekend as I was finishing the Odyssey I noticed another parrallel between Odysseus and Penelope. When Penelope is told that Odysseus has returned, she is described as ‘her heart pondering much, whether [to do this] or [to do that], much as Odysseus is continually considering two options in his heart and choosing the one […]
So I’ve been doing more research, and I found something that kinda builds upon my last post (about Odysseus giving up his immortality, the heroic paradox, etc.) In Nancy Sultan’s Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, the wife of a hero is extremely important, as her mourning perpetuates his glory after his […]
In reading book 18 about the confrontation between Iros and (disguised) Odysseus, I found that this passage was ironically amusing:
‘May Zeus, stranger, and all the other immortals give you what you want most of all and what is dear to your spirit, for having stopped the wandering of this greedy creature in our neighborhood. Soon […]
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