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Lost Books of The Odyssey Pt.2 - Coggle Diagram
Lost Books of The Odyssey Pt.2
Book 7: Bacchae
Summary: This book, written in Odysseus's view, reminisced his possible chances of getting back to Ithaca from Troy if he has not made such choices that led him and his crew to Aiaia - Circe's island, where he then realized that his ship was wrecked and his me n were gone and now he will die here.
Odysseus spoke about decisions that he should not made out of fear, pride, arrogance that led him to Circe
“There was a sentiment that we should go straight back to Ithaca but I decided we would take the long way back and turn raider till we saw our own harbor”
“We could easily have found an island somewhere, someplace out of the way, unlikely to be visited, and spent the winter there fishing and letting idleness smooth off our keen edges, but we were tired of our own society and of our rootless wartime existences and so we did not wait.”
“We would have preferred to sail within sight of land but were afraid of well-armed ships cruising for revenge so we took the straight route over open sea”
Not only did Odysseus showed his regrets on making such decisions prior his arrival on Aiaia, but also after he landed his foot on the island.
He underestimated Circe and her maids because they were women and thought they could not have no better armament than knives, that he could have just cut easily through them.
He even thought they were prostitute at first regarding how Circe predicted their accounts without him presenting it first. So, he did not stand on politesse and told them the story of Troy, and the war.
In
Bacchae
, Odysseus and Circe switched roles. Instead of Odysseus being smart and cunning that he was able to overpower Circe with Hermes's trick in
The Odyssey
, here Odysseus was completely forced to turn complaint to Circe, who is now in complete control.
It provided a more realistic image of Circe as a goddess, compared to her vague illustration of power (as a god not a witch) in
The Odyssey
Odysseus's regretful reflection also showed how he let his hubris overshadow his realization that there were greater power over him - the divinity
Book 10: Fugitive
Odysseus found
The Iliad
at Agamemon's place
Odysseus read the book, in which he discovered the pattern of human fate, crafted by the gods.
Mason revealed the pre-programmed fate of humans, shaped by the gods to indicate the insignificance of humans
By giving Odysseus access to Iliad, Fugitive illustrated the repeated sequences of conflict and war.
humans are creatures with little to no power over their own destiny
Odysseus himself, was a fugitive from the destined reality that the gods had prepared for him. He could change those small details, but overall, any luck or misery that comes to him, is and will always be inevitable to remind him of his insignificance in this world
Fugitive repeated Homer’s The Odyssey theme of neglect in gods and goddesses
Fugitive
indirectly pointed out how gods and goddesses again, seeke.d adoreness and reverence from mortals' misery