What character would be the best example of an archetype. What is the function of an antagonist in a story. What is the purpose of a society's oral tradition. Who is the father of Odysseus. Who does the real beggar Irus want to fight in the book Odyessey. Q: What two servants were spared in The Odyssey? Write your answer Related questions. How are the two servants in the odyssey convinced that Odysseus is indeed their returned master? Which suitors' lives are spared by Odysseus in the Odyssey?
What happens to Odysseus' companions in the Odyssey? Why are phemius and medon spared? Who is Phemius in The Odyssey? David spared Sauls life five times is that true or false? How do you use spared in a sentence? Which part of this excerpt from Homers Odyssey depicts Ulysses revealing his true identity to his faithful servants Eumaeus and Philaetius? What did servants in the old day's do? How many people died in the odyssey? Who was spared in the holocaust? What are two stories by Homer? How many syllables are in spared?
How old is your Odyssey putters? Homers Iliad and Odyssey were? Spread make two anagrams? Is all homeschooling done with odyssey the learning odyssey and or compass? Three servants were punished after they tried to escape. Two were white, and one was black. The white servants had their contracts extended; the black servant was ordered to serve for the rest of his life. Why were the punishments different? With what two epics is Homer credited?
What is the epic poem of Homer? What are two synonyms for the word Odyssey? What were Homer's two famous poems? What were Homers two favorite poems? Melanthius soon reaches the storeroom and gets out fresh arms for the suitors. A full battle now rages in the palace hall. Volleys of spears are exchanged, and Odysseus and his men kill several suitors while receiving only superficial wounds themselves. Finally, Athena joins the battle, which then ends swiftly. The priest Leodes begs unsuccessfully for mercy.
Odysseus has Eurycleia come out. She openly rejoices to see the suitors dead, but Odysseus checks her impropriety. She rounds up the disloyal servant women, who are first made to clear the corpses from the hall and wash the blood from the furniture; they are then sent outside and executed. Odysseus tells Telemachus to cut them down with a sword, but Telemachus decides to hang them—a more disgraceful death.
Last of all, the traitor Melanthius is tortured and killed. After the bloodbath, Odysseus has the house fumigated. The dramatic scene in which Odysseus effortlessly strings the bow is justly famous. Since the bow gives Odysseus a weapon in hand, it also allows for a seamless transition to the fighting of Book Homer tells us that Odysseus received the bow during a diplomatic trip to Messene, long before any of his hardships began, and that it has been seldom used since then.
Through his mastery of the bow, Odysseus comes full circle, once again the king and most powerful man in Ithaca. Athena plays a less prominent role in the battle than earlier books suggest she might. Disguised as Mentor, she offers encouragement at a crucial moment, but her departure to the sidelines puts the focus squarely on Odysseus and his allies.
Of course, Athena would presumably intervene if the battle were to go awry, but her reserve until the very end allows the victory to be portrayed as the work of Odysseus and Telemachus. When the suitors do fall, Homer makes their deaths seem fitting by reminding us of the foul deeds that merited this purge. Antinous, foremost among the suitors for his impudence, falls first. The fighting of Book 22 is the only pitched battle in The Odyssey , and while it cannot help but recall The Iliad , which abounds in bloodshed, the description remains thoroughly Odyssean.
For one thing, it maintains the comic and domestic flavor that many critics find characteristic of The Odyssey. Because of his military expertise, the early battle goes well for Odysseus. He has caught the enemy by surprise, cut off escape, destroyed its leadership, and caused confusion. Telemachus fetches armor for the king and himself as well as the two loyal herdsmen. The suitors have only the swords that they wear. However, the sinister goatherd Melanthius complicates matters.
Familiar with the castle, he retrieves a dozen spears and armor to match from the storeroom whose door Telemachus has carelessly left ajar. Odysseus sees the danger but resists panic. His faithful herdsmen cut off Melanthius' second trip and hang him live by the rafters. At this crucial point in the battle, as Odysseus agonizes, Athena appears in the form of Mentor.
The king recognizes his true mentor, the goddess, and takes heart as she reminds him that these are not Trojans that he faces. These are only the suitors. He fights on with renewed vigor. The king's faithful servant can't resist asking Ctesippus how he likes his mockery now Odysseus dispenses justice harshly but not without mercy.
Leodes pleads that he was only the suitors' priest, but Odysseus knows that he was the first to try to string the bow and win Penelope. Odysseus decapitates him with one swipe, the head softly bouncing in the dust. Following Telemachus' recommendation, the king spares Phemius the bard and one of the heralds. With classic understatement, Odysseus observes that he has only a few "household chores" He asks Eurycleia to identify the maidservants who were disloyal.
A dozen are called in. They must clean the gore from the great hall, after which they are taken to the courtyard and hanged. The maidservants "kicked up heels for a little — not for long" Then Melanthius, the goatherd who assaulted Odysseus on the road to town and later mocked him at the palace, is dragged into the courtyard.
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