at the end of book 8 and start of book 9 odyssey reveals his identity

past: odyssey
singer of tale similar to homer
9 11 12
threes in 9: adventures with ciconians lotus eaters and cyclops
10: Iiyste llystrigonians cerces
11: long journey of underworld
12: Sirens Scylla Charybdis and cattle of sun
food crimes not as food shape shifting animals and strange animals
search of knowledge
underworld: circe forward search of knowledge
sirens amazing marvelous song
kikonians lotus eaters interaction they eat lowe leaves(pharmeoulaogical effect)
respect odyssey
cyclops strange the shore ship party of men food source explore hill
area of cyclops
missing: cultivation lack farming tools grain base diet
supplement in diet no bread
they dont have councils
no homes caves no ships no contact with world great lack of civilisation
Polyphemus Xenia lack
odyssey get none
wine odyssey brings from ship from maron
odyssey offers wine to cyclops cyclops blinded gift giving and laws of xenia vio
lated cyclops do not serve food but use odyssey two men for food
law 3: not good to be food
source of revulsion to us
disgust response
violent
debilitating cyclops rather killing him odyssey gets out of cave underanimals th
rough ramp
odyssey no man
Polyphemus no man harming me
polyphemus can now curse odyssey
poseidon father of polyphemus nasty things happen odysey way
cyclops: social lesson and xenia
xenia: perverted example of not what to do
not xenia: criminals
2: elias strange
oddyssey men open bag
lystreahgonians monsters eats odyssey men
Circe
washup pn unknown shore search party goes
circe village: odyssey men turned into pigs
man into animals for food
man edible part of food chain
a woman can turn into swine
men approach her
odyssey wins over her 1 year relationship
odyssey pulls sword over her
special magical potion from hermes resist her magic
circe secret knowledge for home
smartest man tiresias dead talk to tiresias makes way to underworld
odyssey crew: elpenour dies alone from roof
3: trench potion ram blood milk
out of earth comes shades
dante modeled on virgil
underworld far away place down
sulfurous openings in earth
shades to come out and make conversation bait: blood
odyssey has bait in blood shade need blood shade human being
getting blood shade return to them insubstantial shades
underworld: eternal layover at airport
ethical scores not settled
tantalus and syphacus exceptions not good bad
islands for blessed
smaller piece of larger idea
about
Odyssey elepenor poor guy dead should be buried
Odyssey has sacrified animals
tiresisas apollo priest: wisdom of future seeing present seeing the past
odysses problem afoul poisedon
tiresius oar pull boat in water and bring boat
build posiedon temple in centre.
Odysey mother female heroes alcinous comes in middle
winnowing fan: oar
Male heroes Agammemnon be careful when u go home
amphora depicting death of achilles
underscoring how awful to be dead
underworld fragile organisms which we are
business with elepnor circe land of sirens
cycle 3: cattle of sun
sirens say (book 12)
sirens know everything
sung for him
greek vase with scylla(monstrous woman with horrible mouth on man chomp)
get little close to scylla
universal law: leadership decisions choosing between two bad things
final adventure: cattle of sun (land) stuck without food
cattle: gift to gods luscious and appropriate gift.
greeks less wealthy
god want smoke
greeks fascinated by cattle cow oxen
image of bulls vaphio cups
social cultural role of meat
beef experience rich protein
luxurious people telemachus meets nestor
delphi temple 13 sq km for grazing cattle(control of land)
helios declared cattle is sacred to him out of normal authorized food source for
human being
food not food
food crimes and xenia
odyssey men punished fiercely
food :cricket
cultural dimension: pig
nonnegotiable
we are not food
Structuralism:
claude levi strauss(1908-2009)
anthropology psychology sociology
Structures of things
start with first structure
human mind
human culture product of human mind
organ mode of binaries
shade of grey : black white
binary code capable of subtle kind of expressions
binary origination of info
core binary: experential moment
Structural and myth
myths have binary opposition
structural reading food/not food
structalists : not interested in temporal diachronic dimensions of myth
intersted in structural thesis molecules of narrative one and other side of bina
ry
structuralist in myth mnyth as meaning (relationship among details)
universality reflected in myth
structulists binary pair of opposition
questions about habitat environment reproduction kinsin relationship sibling cou
sin uncle aunt
biological pair of oppositions(human)
opposition we are looking does not reconcile
book 9-12 (
two things create humans declare and exist are true
opposite things not opposite
anxiety filled in papered over
binary hunting: myth
binary pair of oppositions to read myth
conversation between opposite pairs
opposition traced back to most important structure interested in
world of ithaca home
agamemnon: be careful when u go home
penelope skilled master weaver
12 book penelope world.
shores of ithaca:
ithaca complex structure
sheep
terrain
ithaca: outlay(outside)aule :oiko ,bedroom
the town centre belongs to people of ithaca
inside interior oikos penelope in charge
inside inner room penelopes bedroom
physical strength
he needs guidance athena first guidance
odyssey lie to athena
eumaeus hut
odyssey social knowledge
swineherd: eumaeus position in household prestige in society
hospitality between odysseus and eumaeus xenia big meat not cow sheepskin for be
n simple cloak
accepts gift connection sharing of gifts referred to as second person
conversation penelope brings in strange
law 5:tell a lie tell a lie close to truth
athena in dream to telemachus
menaelaus back from pylos theoclymnous running from hometown passage to ithaca
bad argument with aristrocatic person
theoclymenus take by telemachus
someone who listens theo god
stranger divine inflection
6 16 odyssey would start reading mediums
13-16
beginning of 16 interesting stuff homer uses similies
connection drawn among characters in story
eumaeus in place of odysseus
telemachus gets chance to be odysseus too
secret conveyance of information btwn odyssey athena
hero disclaims divine aspect
plot against son comes down against suitors
subtleness cautious and circumspect
reconnitering centre of town odysset house
growing up of telemachus book 17 lies to eumaeus
page 354 father as beggar hang around with suitors
356 responsibility
374 double determination for heroes
book 18 telemachus hovering in centre iris another beggar fight with odysseus te
lemachus guaranteer of oaths
telemachus steps into different stage of life take other people message
close of 18 threats which people are recognizing
suitors amazed at telemachus grown up personality
beggar turned away by suitors
dont give food or wash feet
hoarding and taking odysseus goods
chance to tell his story
code violated by suitors comes by zues
Gods arrive disguised in every way pg 370
book 20: suitor takes ox hurl and hurls at odysseus
eumaeus as messenger message from stranger to penelope
forwardness of penelope audience of stranger
subterranean back message metadata: i want to pay attention to yu on both sides
story secret signs and codes
book 17-20
gods send messages through innocous messages
gods talk to us in certain ways:
animal fight
dreams are ancient
thunder bird lightning dreams
greeks talk about signs not intution
divine signs physical signs
some people see and other people do not
beggar amazing physically rag
pg 361 menalethus(goat herd) kicks odysseus it does leave any mark
suitors not good at drawing conclusions from signs
pg 369 antonius throw a stool at odysseus
pg 377 iris vs odyssey
signs coursing moving around telemachus gets signs ventually
divine signs
portent:theoclymenus swears by zeus good at reading divine signs odysseus is her
e to penelope
if odysseus come back it would be ggood thing punctuation mark was considered to
be divine sign(snneze is the divine sign gods are underwing him)
snneze - thunder clap or thunder bolt
thunderbolt: strong sense of meaning to it
book 18 strong speech beats beggar speaks to suitors divine pronoucement strongl
y worded becoming kind of seer egs of thunder
overhead birds pg 413 pg 422 theoclymenus suitors u are in huge trouble
odyssey inner circle see whats happening days of suitor are numbered .Most impor
tant of these signs comes in book 19 moving part to books
penelopes dream in book 19
book 19 penelope know little bit more than what we think
penelope busy with weaving and unweaving
odysseus come to see in evening
book 18 Athena figure of euroyme
give message to suitors gifts to bride her stuff for them
son grew some hair on chin
book 18: its a lie through odyssey wife
odysseus response to lie: pg 384 joy with trickery
why does penelope lie?
according to odysseus it something else in her mind
or it may be subterrenean message: meta data attached to it penelope wants to kn
ow if stranger comes out to be odysseus then it would be purposeful
axe trick comes up odysseus takes away bow with bow and arrow trick
book 19 we get started with conversation
odysseus and penelope come together
servant maiden can hear them they can tip off the suitors
circumspection on part of odyssey and penelope
odysseus with ariete
pg 395 odyssey lie as aethon claims to see odyssey he is at dodona pg 400 subter
renean message:(odyssey would be cautious)
pg 397 clothes penelope cautious and circumpect
book 20 close more back and forth earshot of door laughing men
penelope sitting and listening and fall of suitors
odysey cretan sailor
penelope extends hospitality wash feet sleep in inner rooms
euryclia (trusted maid servant foot wash)
odysseus has a scar nearby his inner thigh it was close enough to private area
christian guttlob heyne
a scar is a story individuals have story that make them different from everybody
else
she gets bowl underneath his foot sees his scar with beautiful rain composition
scar is something maternal grandfather
hunting for boar very good food
boar has gore to odysseus so he gets his scar here
odysseus also gets his name from this event It means pain.
odyssey earns his name crirical path of his identity with the boar
scar deeply tied with identtiy
book 19 pg 404 boar where it is
look at book 5
from boy to man repetition of lines connection with boar very deep
recognizes odysseus
sceret very seriously kill her if it comes out
euryclea and telemachus have figured out
close book 19 with dream of penelope
penelope dream book 20 divine signs
universal law:secrecy creates intimacy
flirt with someone dream of someone
penelope
pg 392 ivory chair eyes made of horn odysseus
stranger interpret this dream
eagle kills a bunch of birds on trough in house eagle is odysseus and then flies
away stranger should be the interpretor eagle is the interpretor
wants stranger to be odysseus
true: gate of horn false: gate of ivory
penelopes dream can be anything she might has made up
dream : word with hidden meaning different layers of meta data
book 20 other divine signs on doorstep of book 21
external area of house
inner peace of house
violence bow and arrow
suitor who is strong enough
strings bow creator of object
turns and nods but to telemachus inner circle of knowledge odyssey telemachus an
d eumaeus army
antinous suitor goes down juggling with glass of wine
eurymachus next suitor went down
odyssey telemachus and eumaeus clean house violent
odyssey phineas live poet medan herald spared
leodes seer gets hold of odyssey knees
land of phiashia getting under protection of zeus
odyssey does not head xenia leodes is killed
certain people great heroes pieces of social code need give way
odyssey need for revenge and crime for suitors
odyssey recognizing gravity of situation
punishes unfaithful maids by telemachus
confusion of violence in painting
odysey appears as God
sulfur and fire at the end
will of god human executing divine pg 452
hero jumping into events gods use their hands
earned his way into inner courtyard of house
inner rooms and bed require skill
book 23 pg 455
eurycelia informs penelope
eurycelia put into dreams
penelope thrilled but holds back
pass final test penelope gives him
contemplating calculating things
find mode of connection
pg 459 secret signs known to us
verify each others identity through this sign
sign is bed
bed is rooted himself crafted the bed with axe handle
cut olive wooden valves living tree
immovable Gravitational centre of odyssey and penelope
let bring bed for odysseus
she has kept exclusive rights for him
marker of his identity
verify himself no extra
penelope identity bed
verify with him close of 23 reunion will happen in next lecture
wonderful similie penelope warm joy as shipwrecked sailors find when they see la
nd
penelope joy like sailor who poisedon has wrecked with awful punishments
penelope is odysseus for while and odysseus plays role of penelope
penelope suffering compared to odyssey suffering outside
they have made connection
reunion lot of talking telling lot of epic comes back in
things turn book 24 begins things not over
original odyssey may be 23 books
suitors in underworld suitors told agamemnon
agamenon contrasting his situation with odyssey
tales not to upper world but to underworld
odyssey father laertes
test his father
identity proof of odysseus
town people in ithaca
athena helps odysseus in war in spear thrown by laeretes suitor relatives sink a
way
house is stable
ore must be brought far away from sea he has recovered his identity strenght cit
y house connection with past odysseus is finally whole again he has earned his p
lace