Wednesday, September 30, 2015

1.Book 8 Due Friday, 10/2

1. Choe's favorite lines:

"Great Odysseus melted into tears, running down from his eyes to wet his cheeks ... as a woman weeps, her arms flung round her darling husband ..." (8.585-588)

Sigh. Such gender-normative language.


"Nausithous use to say that lord Poseidon was vexed with us because we escorted all mankind and never came to grief. He said that one day, as a well-build ship of ours sailed home on the misty sea from such a convoy, the god would crush us ..." (632-637).

Oops. Guess what'll happen. Oh, Odysseus.

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