Trapped on the island of Ogygia by the nymph Calypso, he wishes to return to his family but does not have the means to as he has lost his crew and ship. However, lost in the Mediterranean is Odysseus still trying to return home. All the while, Antinous plots to kill Telemachus and remove his opposition in the palace.
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She, however, does not wish to remarry and makes them wait while her son Telemachus searches for just cause to banish them from their home. In his palace a large group of suitors have arrived and taken up residence to court Penelope, Odysseus’s wife. The epic poem of Odysseus begins ten years after the capture of Troy in Ithaca, his homeland. Because of inconsistencies in plot and stylistic changes, we are led to believe that Homer was an individual who collaborated the songs of many poets or many poets that came together to finish the entire saga.Original: Ancient GreeceTranslated: English There is heavy debate over whether Homer was a single individual or if it was multiple poets coming together to finish the two epics attributed to him, the Odyssey and the Iliad.
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Homer is one of the first Greeks to have written literature that remains in full today. This further comparison of Theseus and Artemis as attackers also serves to raise Theseus as a great hero who closely resembles the gods in their disrespect for mortal women. The next line contains Ariadne’s death by the goddess Artemis, making Ariadne into a victim of both Theseus and the goddess Artemis. Speaking of his kidnapping of Ariadne, “he got no joy from her” after taking her from her home in Crete to his own in Athens. This brief mention contains very few positive images of Theseus. The two women are listed alongside the wives, daughters and cohorts of gods and prominent men in Greece. The elevation of Theseus that comes from his mention so soon after Heracles’ cameo is contrasted with the earlier mention of Ariadne and Phaedra. Of course, Homer’s intended audience would be familiar with both the myths of Heracles and the myths of Theseus. The way that Homer leaves Odysseus waiting for Theseus speaks very highly of Theseus without having to give any additional information about him.
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In contrast, his brief interaction with Heracles seems to leave Odysseus in awe.
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Odysseus’ interactions with Achilles and Agamemnon make sense as they fought together in the Trojan War. Odysseus’ wish to see more “shades of famous heroes, men who died in the old days and ghosts of an even older age I longed to see, Theseus and Pirithous” sets a clear divide between his generation of heroes and the earlier Heroic Age that contained the Argonauts. In addition to the women, Odysseus speaks to Agamemnon, other heroes of the Trojan War, and several prominent mythological figures, including both Heracles and Achilles, before leaving the Underworld.īy having Odysseus enter the underworld in order to interact with the mythological greats, Homer is able to connect the ancient mythology to the newer. Both Ariadne and Phaedra are included in this parade of women and both are wives of Theseus. After this emotionally upsetting discussion with her, Odysseus speaks to a long line of famous mythological women known either because of their relationships with gods or because of their relationships with heroes. Once he speaks with Tiresias, Odysseus finds his recently deceased mother and speaks to her about the events at home. From Tiresias, Odysseus learns that he will make it home to Ithaca without any of his crew and he will have to fight his wife’s suitors off once he arrives. It follows the ten year journey of Odysseus, a hero of the Trojan War, from Troy (in modern day Turkey) to his home in Ithaca, Greece.īook XI sees Odysseus travel to the Underworld in order to speak with the dead blind prophet Tiresias. The Odyssey, written by the Greek epic poet Homer, is one of the most famous and most influential epic poems of European literature.