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Odyssey quotes by theme - Coggle Diagram
Odyssey quotes by theme
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Xenia
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bad xenia
"remember your duty to the gods we are supplicants" -> book 9 Odysseus to the cyclopes, showing bad xenia as he is abusing the custom
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hero
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"you were always an obstinate, cunning and irrepressible intriguer" -> Athene about Odysseus
“As a minstrel skilled at the lyre... he plucked it with a sound like a swallow's note” Book 21 Odysseus strings the bow
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Leadership
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bad leadership "i was about to shout something else... but my men called out, trying to restrain and pacify me"
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Family
"no it was my heart ache for you ... that brought my life with all its sweetness to an end" Book 11 ->Ods. mum about her death
"i yearned to embrace her spirit, dead though she was" Book 11 #greif #nostos/ergency
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Telemacus defends himself against the suitors " i am definitely not stupid" however he comes across childlike, showing that without having a father his manhood cant be complete
Telemachus on the brink of manhood he is still unable to string the bow "I suppose I shall always be a coward and a weakling. Or perhaps I'm too young"
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Disguise
Book 13 Odysseus' homeland isnt immediately revealed to him and therefore when he lands upon Ithaca he believes the Phaecians have tricked him "what a blow to find the Phaecian lords were not exactly wise and honest"
Book 16 "You are not my father, you are not Odysseus... only a moment ago you were an old man in shabby clothes now you look like one of the gods"
Book 19 Eurycleia recognises Odysseus and compromises his disguise, therefore Odysseus has to act with violence, which is also speaks to the treatment of slaves "sought and gripped the old womens throat"
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suitors
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"She cannot bring herself to take the final step of rejecting the suitors or accepting one" -> Penelope about the suitors and her fidelity to Odysseus
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