Books 3 and 4: no achievement, no fighting, just sailing home again. Book 18 - Penelope dazzles Suitors with her beauty, send off for rich gifts, Odysseus delighted at her skill, glamorous and irresistible at first appearance to him.
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Griffin pt 2
Odyssey is a poem of wide interests and sympathies, animals, servants, beggars, women etc.
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Griffin pt 3
Return of Agamemnon brought in as a foil, warning to Odysseus and Telemachus.
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Griffin pt 4
Books 13-21: Odysseus does little that is heroic, accepts humiliations and at moments looks more like a real beggar rather than a hero.
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EV Rieu
Odyssey with its well knit plot and interplay of character is a true ancestor of a long line of novels that followed it.
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Camps
Odyssey is on a lower emotional level. Breadth of character types - princes, beggars, witches, villains etc. Also matched by diversity of location, more of a wide ranging poem than Iliad or Aeneid.
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Camps pt 2
Books 9-12 are told by Odysseus himself, excitement as a personal reminiscence and significance of an extended exercise in heroic self revelation.
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Jones
Simplicity, straight forwardness and plain honest dealing are found in the Odyssey, not in the main characters but in humbler supporting roles.
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Bowra
Odyssey lacks splendour, fewer outstanding moments, slaughter of Suitors is thrilling climax but low pathos like the death of Hector. Odyssey on a lower key.
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Halverson
Conflict between Odyssean household and Suitors. Imitation of conflict between older and younger generation, town and country, respective value systems.
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Card 2
Front
Odyssey is a poem of wide interests and sympathies, animals, servants, beggars, women etc.
Back
Griffin pt 2
Card 3
Front
Return of Agamemnon brought in as a foil, warning to Odysseus and Telemachus.
Back
Card 4
Front
Books 13-21: Odysseus does little that is heroic, accepts humiliations and at moments looks more like a real beggar rather than a hero.
Back
Card 5
Front
Odyssey with its well knit plot and interplay of character is a true ancestor of a long line of novels that followed it.
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