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Books 9-12 in the Odyssey - Coggle Diagram
Books 9-12 in the Odyssey
Book 9
Is told by Odysseus
Most famous book
Hubris is seen with him calling out Cyclopes' name
CYCLOPES
First barbaric society
Good example of Odysseus' cunning and
Seen as barbaric with their lack of farming and hostility towards each ither
Cicones: "mourned
Odysseus' rhetoric
FLawed with how he switches from third person to 1st person
Alot more than just a speech (what makes a hero heroic)
Tie in with "quick-witted"
Uses epithets such as "fresh and rosy fingered" dawn
Phaecians interrupt Odysseus' speech to say Odysseus speaks "just like a poet"
Book 10
Meet Aeolus (who also has an incestuous marriage between his children)
Aeolus believes Odysseus to be cursed with how he comes back to him
Circe
Stay there for
Nytmphs take care of Cires garden
Odysseus is seen to show weakness with debating whether he should
Book 11
ODYSSEUS MEETS SOULD OF THE UNDERWORLD
Achilles' regret (says nothing about Patroclus)
Tiresias is mainly who he's there for
Gives opportunity for Homer to display skill as a poet
Odysseus is in hell in Dantes inferno - heroic qualities don't matter to an audience
Does give us a good image of hell (and inspirations with blood)
Book 12
Schylla and Charybydis: go into both
Sirens
Odysseus' prophecy comes true
Helios' cattle; prime example of Odysseus' men infidelity
Odysseus' men
Are less heroic and not heroes at all
God and heroes pawns
Disobey leaders
Seem to represent most men in the novel; individualistic and unheroic. more unrealistic approach
Are grateful about Odysseus saving them
Could be fitting that they were turned into pigs? How Circe saw them?
"Back he comes from Troy with a splendid haul of plunder, though we have gone as every bit as far home with empty hands"
Don't really conform to Xenia with how they have nothing in return and only care about themselves; unnoble but not as unnoble as the suitors
Role of Circe
helps Odysseus
Good xenia - is amicable and won't hurt Odysseus
Does advise Odysseus on where to go next
Heroic in rhetoric with helping the hero
More exotic societies
More world building in the Odyssey
Idyllic, but do have pros and cons
All comes down to xenia (the compass for civilisation and barbarism)
Serves to show how
DOUBLE PLOT (makes Odysseus more heroic and pathos for what he has endured)