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Nausicaa

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Silk: “transient”
“playful romantic interlude”

Jenkyns: “blend of the elevated and everyday”

2
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Arete

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Chrystal:
“active and integral”
“free to come and go as they please”

3
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Eurycleia

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McDonald: “even the salves are noblemen who have come on hard times”

4
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Circe

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Doherty: female characters as narrators are more powerful than the listener

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Athene

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Jenkyns: “sexless affection”

“interesting characters”

6
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Power of women

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Wilson: “deep male fears about female power”

Griffin: “to men, women are inscrutable”

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Penelope (strong)

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Slatkin: “not lesser than her husband… they share their ingenuity (metis)”

Griffin: contrast between her and Clytemnestra “repeatedly emphasised”

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Penelope (marriage)

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Wilson: “defined exclusively by her marital status”

Graziosi: “above all famous for her role as the faithful wife”

Griffin: marriage bed is a symbol of the “solidity of their relationship”

9
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Penelope (elusive)

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Graziosi: “Homer tells us little about her thoughts, her motives are mysterious”

10
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Slaves as simple characters

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Thalmann:
“viewed from above and characterised”
–> sharply opposed in to good and bad

“dangerous element lurking in the very foundation of the oikos”

11
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Status of slaves

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Halverson: “these are the people who do not count”

12
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importance of slaves

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Jenkyns:
“prominence even to slaves and beggars”
–> Eumeaus and Eurclyeia both have recognition scenes

13
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blending of fantasy and supernatural

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Jones: “what is extraordinary is the way in which these worlds are… so effortlessly blended”

14
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Role of Phaeacia

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Segal “fantasy realm”

“share in the suffering mortality… trouble and uncertainty”

15
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Dreams

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Gregory:
“sent by a god to distress”
Or “waking visions”

16
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purpose of the epic

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Davenport: “triumph of mind over force”

camps: vast range of characters from all parts of society

17
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heroism in the epic

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Griffin: “tension between the two types of heroism”

Bowra: “faced not by his equals but by his inferiors or by monsters”

18
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Speech in the epic

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Griffin: “different style and vocabulary from the epic”

“judgments of the characters through their words and interactions”

19
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epithets in the epic

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Rieu: “remind us of the permanent, external qualities of people”

20
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similes in the epic

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Camps: “40 extended similes”

Morrison: “figures in the Agamemnon story as role models”

21
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Nostos

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Nagy: “becomes a hero because he manages to get home”

Kahane: “reassertion of control” “Union of male and female”