Odessey Critics Flashcards
(65 cards)
Emily Wilson (Feminist problems)
‘The silencing of female voices, and the dangers of female agency, are central problems in the poem’
‘The silencing of female voices, and the dangers of female agency, are central problems in the poem’
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson (Goddesses)
‘Calypso, Aphrodite, and Circe provide passionate models of female power - idealised fantasies of how much agency mortal women might have, if only social circumstances were completely different’
‘Calypso, Aphrodite, and Circe provide passionate models of female power - idealised fantasies of how much agency mortal women might have, if only social circumstances were completely different’
Emily Wilson
William Charles Schaefer (Odysseus’ invincibility)
‘When coupled with his courage and fighting ability make him invincible’
‘When coupled with his courage and fighting ability make him invincible’
William Charles Schaefer
William Charles Schaefer (Odysseus’ cowardice)
‘Odysseus cannot be called a coward because of any of these […] incidents; rather, he is the greater hero because of his reactions in those situations. When he trembles and fears, as all men do, he becomes more plausibly human, and not some unreal literary creation’
‘Odysseus cannot be called a coward because of any of these […] incidents; rather, he is the greater hero because of his reactions in those situations. When he trembles and fears, as all men do, he becomes more plausibly human, and not some unreal literary creation’
William Charles Schaefer
Richard Jebb (Odysseus’ failings)
‘Sometimes, when the most deadly danger is imminent he fails in common prudence through too much curiosity […] which leads him to tempt fate’
‘Sometimes, when the most deadly danger is imminent he fails in common prudence through too much curiosity […] which leads him to tempt fate’
Richard Jebb
Richard Jebb (Odysseus’ wit)
‘He has wit enough to extricate himself from any difficulty, and fortitude enough to bear whatever the gods send’
‘He has wit enough to extricate himself from any difficulty, and fortitude enough to bear whatever the gods send’
Richard Jebb
Richard Jebb (Odysseus vs Achilles)
‘Odysseus is also an ideal type; but he is not lifted above ordinary emulation in the same degree as this dazzling embodiment of youthful force and vigour which is presented by the son of Peleus. […] The Greeks saw in Odysseus no unapproachable hero, but the great exemplar of certain qualities which everyone might cultivate’
‘Odysseus is also an ideal type; but he is not lifted above ordinary emulation in the same degree as this dazzling embodiment of youthful force and vigour which is presented by the son of Peleus. […] The Greeks saw in Odysseus no unapproachable hero, but the great exemplar of certain qualities which everyone might cultivate’
Richard Jebb
Michaels
Odysseus is a trickster and a liar… morally ambiguous
Odysseus is a trickster and a liar… morally ambiguous
Michaels
Sadler
Loyalty towards his allies is Odysseus’ redeeming quality
Loyalty towards his allies is Odysseus’ redeeming quality
Sadler
Graziosi
Odysseus is a comic character, a tragic hero, a villain - he could never and cannot yet be pinned down
Odysseus is a comic character, a tragic hero, a villain - he could never and cannot yet be pinned down
Graziosi
Nicholson
Odysseus’ name means ‘to be hated’
Odysseus’ name means ‘to be hated’
Nicholson
Clarke
Odysseus moves beyond the glamour of heroism to a more fundamental level of the human condition, where the hero suceeds only by accepting the inevitablity of his lowliness
Odysseus moves beyond the glamour of heroism to a more fundamental level of the human condition, where the hero suceeds only by accepting the inevitablity of his lowliness
Clarke
