book1 odyssey themes
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- the odyssey b1
- memory/grief
- "Odysseus, who would do anything for the mere sight of smoke rising up from his own land"
- kleos
- "I shall send him to Sparta. .... and so win the praise of men" - Telemachus' whole journey wad to try and gain some glory and live up to his father's name
- "My mother certainly says i am Odysseus' son; but for myself i cannot tell!" - Telemachus seek for his own glory to be like huis estranged father
- disguise
- "look like a visitor she assumed the appearence of a family friend ...Mentes" - Athene treesting xenia
- divine intervention
- "Yes, if only Odysseus, as he then was, could confront these suitors, there'd be a quicks death and a sorry wedding for them all." - Athene foreshadowing the death of the suitors
- nostos
- "Odysseus alone was prevented from returning to the home"
- "Odysseus, who would do anything for the mere sight of smoke rising up from his own land"
- the proem
- "tell me muse" the bard invoking the muse to inspire the story emphasising the religious side of the poem
- "resourceful man" introduces us to Odysseus by his epithet indicating his unusual heroicness
- "their own trsnsgression that brought them to their doom" important theme of disobedience leding to distructi9n
- "tell us this story, goddess daughter of Zeus" - cyclical structure
- xenia
- "he went straight up to the visitor, grasped his right hand, took his bronze spear and gave him cordial greetings."
- "the suitors came in swaggering in and sat down in rows on the seat and chairs" - the suitors introduction and violation of xenia
- memory/grief
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