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The Odyssey Book 1: A Detailed Analysis

The Odyssey Book 1: A Detailed Analysis

Update: 2025-07-28
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Join us as we explore the plot, characters and themes of the opening chapter of Homer's Odyssey. Here we will meet the conniving gods, Odysseus' son Telemachus, and the raucous suitors of Penelope. Through their interactions we will learn plenty about how the Ancient Greeks thought about the world and how they expected people to behave. I hope you enjoy it!

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Granny InSanDiego

In Homer's Odyssey, Book 1:30-42, Zeus tells the assembled Olympians that Orestes killed Aegisthus but does not say he committed matricide. That variant of the myth comes to us from Aeschylus' tragedy The Libation Bearers. Aeschylus was trying to pay tribute to the Athenian patriarchy and its court system which reinforced the suppression of women, foreigners and slaves.

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The Odyssey Book 1: A Detailed Analysis

The Odyssey Book 1: A Detailed Analysis

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