Thursday, May 30, 2019

In Book Two of Homer’s The Odyssey Telemakhos gains a significant amount :: Classics

In Book Two of Homers The Odyssey Telemakhos gains a significant amount of confidence and decides to call an fabrication. At the assemblyThe Odyssey In Book Two of Homers The Odyssey Telemakhos gains a significantamount of confidence and decides to call an assembly. At the assemblya wise composition Aigyptios presents the listeners with a r ar introduction.He states that an assembly has not occurred for about twenty social classs andcommends the individual that had the audacity to call one. At thisassembly Telemakhos protests fervently that his female parents suitors beexpelled since they have no respect and appreciation for theirgenerosity these men spend their days around our house killing ourbeeves and sheep and fatted goats , carousing , alky up our gooddark wine, not caring what they do.At the end of Telemakhoss first battle to persuade the minds of theAkhaians against the suitors, a fellow attracter named Antinoos decidesto defend his fellow suitors. Antinoos counteracts Telemakhous claimsinforming everyone that the suitors should not be criticized sincePenelope is the one to blame you should know the suitors are not toblame but it is your own love incomparably cunning mother .Hefurther adds that she has been deceiving them with her clever abilityto avoid any decisions about marriage and gives the example of herunwoven loom.The suitors then commands that Telemakhos takes immediate action andeither evict Miss Penelope from the house or compel her to marry theman her father suggests. Telemakhos makes a firm stance against thesuitors suggestions and insists that he will never turn his motherout.During Telemakhoss plead to save his mother a pair of eagles appearsin the sky. Another heated disputation then rises between Halitherses andEurymakhos in which Halitherses argues that the sighting of eaglesforetells that Odysseus arrival is near and that the suitors will facegrave danger if they dont leave, while Eurymachus protests that thesighting of the bi rds are insignificant Bird life aplenty is found inthe sunny air, not all of it is significant.Telemakhos concludes that he is finished with appeals and will let theGods do the justice. whole he desires is to locate a fast ship and acrew of men to carry out a voyage and arrive at a conclusion about hisfather whereabouts If hes alive and beating his way home you mighthold out for another weary year..then I can come back to my own dearcountry and raise a mound for him..After the assembly Telemakhos feels a sense of thrashing and decides to

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