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Disguise and Testing
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Athena as Mentes and as shepherd
Odysseus as Outis-Metis
Telemachus and Theoklymenos
Eumaios in permanent disguise
Homophrosyne: likeness of
mind
• Promoting the psychological nostos
• Portents and omens
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Eagles in Sparta
Sneezing (XVII)
Setting up the axes
Thunder and the milling slave
• Unconscious communication
– Penelope showing herself to the suitors
– Penelope’s dream
– Odysseus and Penelope sleeping and waking
Story-telling
• Admonitory tales: Orestes, Demodokos’
tale, tunic ainos
• Tales for alleviating pain: Nestor,
Eumaios, Odysseus
• Tales for deception
– Apologue: gullible Phaeacians
– Cretan tales: wary Ithacans
Odysseus’ techniques
• Realism
• False inference
• Strong asseveration