Transcript Kalypso and Nausikaa Odyssey V and VI Kalypso • Review: a sea nymph, lives on Ogygia, in love with Odysseus • Book V opens.

Kalypso and Nausikaa
Odyssey V and VI
Kalypso
• Review: a sea nymph, lives on Ogygia, in
love with Odysseus
• Book V opens on Olympos, with Athena
interceding on Odysseus’ behalf
– JUST LIKE BOOK I
• We are in real-time here,
contemperaneous to Telemakhos’ voyage
Timeline
Telemakhos
Book XIII
Book I
Odysseus
Book V
Book 1
Books IX - XII
Book XIII
Zeus
• “We, whose will is not subject to error”
• “It is not to be thought of – and no use –
for any god to elude the will of Zeus”
• FATE – even Zeus can’t overcome it
• “You hate it when we choose to lie with
mortal men”
– Can Zeus REALLY be upset by goddesses
sleeping with mortals?
Ballistic: God vs. God
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Poseidon counters Hermes
Ino counters Poseidon
Odysseus counters Ino
Poseidon counters Odysseus
Athena counters Poseidon
Zeus still wins
The Arrival on Phaiakia
• Odysseus makes it,
but barely
– “Odysseus left the skin
of his great hands torn
on that rock-ledge
– “swollen from head to
foot”
• REBIRTH
Odysseus Finally Rests
The Phaiakians
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lived on Phaiakia (aka Skheria)
gods used to walk among them
Alkinoos: king of Phaiakia
Arete: queen of Phaiakia
– name means “glory”
• Nausikaa: daughter of Alkinoos and Arete
Nausikaa
• Nausikaa is one of
Homer's most
wonderful creations
• Young (how old, do
you think?), beautiful,
obedient, smart,
clever, yet simple
Nausikaa as Virgin and Mother
• As a virgin, she’s a
desirable princess
• Odysseus doesn’t
know what to do:
μίξεσθαι “to go to
meet; have sex with”
• As mother, she
brings him to life