some notes on Homer's The Odyssey

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And now…some notes
on Homer’s
The Odyssey
Book 1 Settings: Mt. Olympus & Ithaca
Characters: Athena, Zeus, (Poseidon)
(Odysseus ) Telemachus, Mentes (Athena
in disguise) Phemius, Antinous,
Eurymachus, Penelope, Eurycleia
Purpose:
-Introduce situation and many principal
characters
-[Agamemnon story]
-Establish Epic Question (and answer)

Book 2 The Assembly on Ithaca
Aegyptus, Pisenor, Halithersis, Mentor
(Antinous, Eurymachus, Telemachus,
Athena in disguises, Eurycleia)
Purpose:
-Establish violation of hospitality
-Telemachus’ manhood
_Preparations for journey

Book 3 Pylos
Nestor, Pisistratus, Thrasymedes
(Telemachus and Athena as Mentor)
Stories of: Agamemnon, Aegisthus,
Clytemnestra and Orestes, Menelaus,
Athena, Zeus, Poseidon
Purpose:
-Telemachus must gain fame and
recognition

Book 4 Lacedaemon—Sparta—Ithaca
Menelaus, Helen, Eteoneus
(Telemachus, Pisistratus)
Stories of Egypt, Agamemnon, Ajax,
Proteus and Eidothea
Purpose:
-Increase Telemachus’ standing
-Suitors plot to kill Telemachus
(Penelope, Medon, Eurycleia and
Athena’s shadowy phantom)