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Nostos in the Odyssey - Coggle Diagram
Nostos in the Odyssey
Modern scholarship
"She sees him as welcome to her as the sight of land is to an exiled traveller" (referring to Penelopes nostos)
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"When you went abroad, you went and acquired knowledge, which you then brought home safely" according to Greeke (Edith hall)
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Calypsos island
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Odysseus was crying daily, and his pain to return home was more acute because of how long it has taken him to get back home
Sheer nostos with how he rejects everything a normal man would (eg, immortality, power, a nymph as a wife)
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Penelopes nostos
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Weeps for Odysseus whenever something reminds him of her (eg, Book 1 with the bard singing about Troy)
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Eumeus is a prince, and hence is always wanting to return home
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Penelope
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Painfully cooped up - too depressed, doesn't eat or drink in book 2
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