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Table of Scholars Quotes for The Odyssey
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Peter Xenia “Odyssey 8 shows you
walcot Storytelling how to entertain a
stranger and Odyssey
9 how not to entertain
a stranger”
Peter Xenia “Greek society is
Walcot Arrogance intensely competitive
Competition and violence is always
Insults there beneath the
surface and ready to
break out at the
slightest provocation”
Peter Xenia “Surely Homer is The youth who challenges
Walcot The gods stressing parallels Odysseus at the games is likened
Love which link together to Ares, who is later sung about
the two failures of the by Demodocus. Odysseus says
Phaeacians to qualify his limbs are worn out by his
as good hosts” trials at sea and thus linked to
Hephaestus who is cheated on by
his wife Aphrodite in the song
Demodocus sings
Peter Sympathy “Polyphemus Polyphemus is not all bad. There
Walcot Nature represents nature as is one occasion where the
ambiguity opposed to culture audience is directed to
and so there is an sympathise with him: when he
instinctive sympathy talks to his favourite ram. This
between Cyclops and shows the development of
ram.” characters from the Iliad to the
Odyssey, even the villains have
good and bad aspects and thus
are much more rounded
characters
Peter Law and order “It is this bad, The Cyclops are uncivilised
Walcot Civilisation over negative aspect of the because they don’t have a legal
barbarity Golden Age which system or assemblies where
Homer is anxious to things can be debated. Homer
stress and he stresses wants to promote the Greek
it because he is very system of law and order as
much a representative civilised and anything else as self-
of the new, thrusting seeking and barbaric
Greek society of the
eighth century.”
Penelope Heroism She believes that
Murray Kleos Odysseus left Ogygia
not for Penelope but
‘to be remembered as
the hero of the
Odyssey rather than
the oblivion of living
, as Calypso's husband’
Penelope Penelope and Odysseus ‘display in equal She believes Penelope and
Murray measure the qualities Odysseus are made for each
of cunning, other and that the story is more
intelligence, and about the blessing of a
endurance which harmonious marriage than about
Homer's poem war.
celebrates, and the
reciprocity of the
relationship between
husband and wife is
one of its major
themes’
J.M Alden Telemachus ‘to some extent,
Telemachus can be
seen as an
embarrassment’
J.M Alden Telemachus ‘He begins as a timid
and indecisive boy,
goes off on travels
which broaden his
mind, is treated with a
respect which he has
not encountered in
Ithaca, and returns to
play a full part in the
slaughter of the
suitors’
Apthorp Telemachus and The travels of
Odysseus telemachus are a
reflection of those of
his father, to the point
where Telemachus is
enchanted by Helen,
just as Odysseus is
enchanted by Circe
Scott Odysseus ‘among epic heroes,
Richardso Deceit Odysseus is the con
n Narrator artist’
James V. Narrator ‘ultimately homer
Morrison uses misdirection to
draw the audience
closer to the central
problem faced by
characters in the Iliad:
mortal expectation
and miscalculation’
Elizabeth Odysseus He has established his Showing his respect and
Vandiver Nausicaa credentials in a way acknowledgement of the
Respect/Xenia that in no way situation they are in. making sure
Gender relations threatens Nausicaa that he refers to her as a god and
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