The Odyssey

1
The Odyssey

• Books I-IV

2
Foreshadowing?

• Troy
• Catastrophe
• King Priam is killed
• Hector, Priams son is killed
• Sack of Troy

• Ithaca
• Potential catastrophe
• Ody could be killed when on his homecoming
• Tele could be killed when he returns
• Suitors lay Odys house to waste

3
Foreshadowing?

• Agamemnon
• Returned home
• Aegisthus had taken his place
• Orestes achieves vengeance through matricide
• Treachery
• death

• Odysseus
• Returning home
• Suitors vie for his place
• Telemachus harbors vengeance
• Treachery?
• Death?

4
The Father Figure

• Priam (defeated)
• Agamemnon (murdered)
• Nestor (honored)
• Odysseus

• Hector
• Orestes
• Pisistratus
• Telemachus

5
Boyz 2 Men

• Telemachus begins the process of maturation by
  seeking his own identity through his father
• Pisistratus already a captain of armies

6
Womanly Wiles?

• Menelaus (forgiving)
• Agamemenon (betrayed)
• Odysseus

• Helen
• Clytemnestra
• Penelope

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The Goddess Sisterhood

• Helen gives Telemachus a potion to forget his
  grief
• Penelope weaves and unweaves Laertes funeral
  shroud to beguile the suiotors
• Athena sends the phantom of Penelopes sister to
  comfort her

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Bewitching Women

• Telemachus
• Menelaus
• Odysseus
• The suitors

• Athena
• Eidothea
• Calypso
• Penelope