Odyssey Flashcards
(13 cards)
R B Rutherford - Odysseus Character
R B Rutherford “character is defined by flexibility, not fixity”
Richard Jenkyns - Honour
Richard Jenkyns “Honour in Homer is Public currency - it must be seen to exist”
Emily Kearns - Gods
Emily Kearns “The Gods in Homer are poweful, but their justice is unpredictable”
Jasper Griffin 3 - Telemachy
Jasper Griffin “Telemachus must grow into the son of Odysseus - but also into his own man”
, Barbara Grazios - Disguise
Barbara Grazios “Disguise is not deception for Odysseus - it is survival”
Edith Hall
Edith Hall “Penelope is as cunning as Odysseus”
Mary Beard
Mary Beard “The Odyssey is deeply concerned with who gets to speak and who is silenced”
Peter Jones
Peter Jones “Odysseus leads by intelligence”
Peter Jones 2
Peter Jones “Xenia is a fundamental moral code”
M M Willcock - family
M M Willcock “The Odyssey celebrates not war, but the return to family”
R B Rutherford 2 - fate
R B Rutherford “Fate and the Gods shape the road - but men choose how to walk it”
Jasper Griffin - Fantasy
Jasper Griffin “The Odyssey blends the real and the marvellous without ever losing moral focus”
Jasper Griffin 2 - Return (nostos
Jasper Griffin - the return of Odysseus “is a restoration of order”
