“She it was who now lighted Telemakhos to his room,
and she loved him better than any of the
other women in the house did, for she had nursed him when he was a baby. He
opened the door of his bed room and sat down upon the bed; as he took off his
khiton he gave it to the good old woman, who folded it tidily up and hung it for him over a peg by his bed side,” Odyssey 1.434-41 I just thought it was a moving scene.
“[Demodokos], setting his point of departure
, started from the god.” Odyssey
8.99
Reference
to two different therapon in two
different books. Is it plagarism, if you
repeat yourself?
·
”…the son of
Capaneus (Sthenelus, charioteer of Diomedes)…gave them to Deïpylus his dear
comrade, whom he honoured above all the companions of his youth, because he was
like-minded with himself;” Iliad 5:318
·
”…a herald
attended him, a little older than he, and I will tell thee of him too, what
manner of man he was. He was round-shouldered, dark of skin, and curly-haired,
and his name was Eurybates; and Odysseus honored him above his other comrades,
because he was like-minded with himself.” Odysseus 19:24
As for the other
five ships, they were taken by winds and seas to Egypt, where Menelaos gathered
much gold and substance among people of an alien speech. Meanwhile Aegisthus
here at home plotted his evil deed. For seven years after he had killed
Agamemnon he ruled in golden Mycenae, and the people were obedient under
him, but in the eighth year Orestes came back from Athens to be his bane, and
killed the murderer of his father. Then he celebrated the funeral of his
mother and of false unwarlike Aegisthus by a banquet to the people of Argos,
and on that very day Menelaos of the great cry came home, with as much treasure
as his ships could carry. Odyssey 3:300-311 Talking about timing!
The tradition of Homeric poetry is a tradition of
“civilised” people, “civilised” being they who are conscious about rationale or
their reasoning powers when allowed to choose between options. They who listen
to Homeric poetry actually choose to listen to the sufferings and sorrows of
the Trojan war as if they’re listening to the Gods speaking, who are the
ultimate civilised personas in the entire spectacle performed by the Homeric
Poet. The Poet’s memnemai (total recall) is another
pointer that the Gods are speaking and not humans; of course, the Poet’s having
made contact(mental or otherwise) with the state of mind(sophoi defined as
intellectually skilled, agathoi defined as morally qualified, and philoi
defined as emotionally attuned)of Zeus, the Supreme among Gods, is something
that heightens the power of the spectacle.
Thumri 9.22CB.1x
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