Book VII of The Odyssey
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- Book 7 of The Odyssey
- Themes
- Oikos
- Alcinous' palace has 50 maids employed, silver and gold dogs made by Hephaestus, very impressive gardens and large flowering orchards/ vineyards and 2 divine springs (gifts from the gods).
- Xenia
- Alcinous sits Odysseus in his favourite son's chair, gets a maid to wash his hands and feet and offers him a feast.
- Odysseus flatters Nausicaa which in turn flatters his host
- Depicted in this book as very wiley
- Honouring the gods
- Libations poured to Hermes and Zeus
- Odysseus is treated well as the Phaecians fear he may be a god.
- Oikos
- Characters
- Eurymedusa
- Slave girl who was a prize for Alcinous who lights a fire
- Arete
- Wife and niece of king Alcinous, descendant of Poseidon and related to giants popular, wise, known to settle men's disputes
- Notices that Odysseus wears robes that she has made - shows how she is perceptive
- "She dissolves quarrels, even among men, when she favors them."
- Wife and niece of king Alcinous, descendant of Poseidon and related to giants popular, wise, known to settle men's disputes
- Alcinous
- King of Phaecia
- Sleeps in same bed as his wife which would have been strange in Greek times and shows how he truly loves and respects her.
- "Alcinous of the hallowed strength"
- An example of good xenia
- "set him in a shining chair, displacing for this powerful Laodamas, his son, who had been sitting next him and who was the one he loved most."
- King of Phaecia
- Odysseus
- Depicted in this book as very wiley
- Athene
- "Athene with kind thought for Odysseus drifted a deep mist about him"
- "Athene met him, in the likeness of a young girl, a little maid, carrying a pitcher"
- Eurymedusa
- Devices
- Disguise
- Athene covers Odysseus in a mist of invisibility to hide him from the xenophobic Phaecians.
- Athene appears to Odysseus as a little girl in order to give him directions to the palace.
- Disguise
- Themes
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