Flashcards in Portrayal Of Justice In The Homeric World Deck (2)
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Michael Silk, in justice and revenge in the Odyssey.
Modern scholars are not as quick to judge characters as readers were in the past : “Odysseus is a returned husband, long missing and plausibility presumed dead; Leodes, among many others desired his wife. Few of Homers modern readers would condone Odysseus’ revenge killing, in such a context, let alone acclaim it.
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