Clas 220 1st Edition Lecture 11Odyssey 7-12Quiz1. What is the name of the king? – Alkinoos (Alcinous) 2. Who is the father to the Cyclops Polyphemus? – Poseidon 3. Who refuses to speak to Odysseus in the underworld- Ajax 4. Who is punished in the underworld by being required to roll a rock uphill forever?- Sisyphus 5. How many of Odysseus’ crewmembers make it home with him? None The isle of the Phaeacians- Perfect place to live – clean clothes, feasts, good at sports, peaceful - Demodocus- sings songs- o Clash between Achilles and Odysseus- Odysseus covers his head and cries (Agamemnon is happy about this fight) o Song about the gods Ares and Aphrodite having an affair (Aphrodite married to Hephaestus) and gets his revenge- covers them with a net while having sex – Goddesses don’t laugh but the Gods do o The Trojan horse – Odysseus idea – stops at the point where they are about to get Helen back before all the cruelties start- so he cries again when he hears it (this time he cries like a woman whose husband has been killed in battle, who will go into slavery, and son will be killed- Andromedie)- Athletic competitions on the island- Odysseus wins and its awkward so they listen to songs again - Odysseus finally reveals who he is Odysseus’ Adventures- part one1. Cicones- Odysseus want to kill people take their women and leave, but his men are drunk and lazy, so they linger too long and a bunch of them get killed 2. Lotus-Eaters- eat the fruit of the lotus (you lose all thought of going home when you eatit) – drug – loses more men 3. The Cyclops- Odysseus is a bad guest here—(Cyclops is the worst host- eats guests, drinks unmixed wine, no agriculture, not cities) – says that he will eat Odysseus last – Odysseus’s says his name is nobody and spears the Cyclops in the eye. The Cyclops screams nobody is killing me so Odysseus is able to escape. Ou tis= no one – as they make their escape Odysseus tells him his real name for kleos (he then tells Poseidon to hurt him) These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.4. Island of Aeolus – Aeolus gives them wind to get home, but his men open the bag and they are sent back to the Island right when they are about to be home. Aeolus will no longer help them because he thinks that the gods hate him and he doesn’t want to get involved5. The Laestrygonians- sinks sips with boulders 6. Circe-- drugs all of the men and turns them into pigs – Hermes gives him a drug (moly) toprotect himself Odysseus overpowers her and turns his men back into humans- make negations he has to stay for a year has her lover when he leaves he gets advice—he has to go to the underworld a. Tiresias- both a man and woman (gets turned into one) he says that men like 1 part sex and woman like 9 parts he becomes a prophecy b. Before he can go to the underworld his man, Elpenor, gets drunk, sleeps on roof, falls off, and dies – Odysseus leaves without him because they are in danger 7. The underworld- goes to talk to Tiresias – gets the same advice from Circe, advice is ignored, he gets to do unfinished business a. Elpenor- has to promise him to go back and bury him correctly b. Tiresias- tells him to not to kill the cattle of the sun god, and go inland and stick oar into the ground and make it a sacred spot c. Anticleia- his mother – just realize she is dead and he must sacrifice before he can talk to her d. Meets everybody else’s mothers – catalogue of women e. Odysseus asked to sleep and then the audience asks him to continue f. Agamemnon- killed by wife and cousin –says to watch out for his own wife g. Achilles- asks about his son Neoptolemus, says he would rather be a farmer than (reevaluation of his life) h. Ajax- refuses to talk to him i. Tantalus and