Odyssey Critics
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“The Odyssey makes the household rather than the battlefield the centre of its world”
Peter Jones
“It is on these loyal, secure foundations, through his faithful servants, that Odysseus must rebuild”
Peter Jones
“The integrity of the ‘oikos’ is the central and dominating issue of the Odyssey”
John Halverson
Eumaeus and Euryclaeia are “stalwart paradigms of order”
Norman Austin
“He is an anti-hero”
Peter Jones
The relationship between Odysseus and Athene is “unique in Homer for the closeness it depicts between god and mortal”
Peter Jones
“His need for cunning is enforced by his own recklessness”
C.M Bowra
“The partnership between Odysseus and Penelope is a partnership of intellectual equals”
Robert Fagles
“Homer frees Odysseus of any responsibility over the deaths of his comrades” because of fate
Mandzuka
“Supernatural powers are at work everywhere and always”
W.A. Camps
“In Homer the gods help only those who are worthy of it”
Peter Jones
The suitors are a “degenerate corruption of heroes”
C.M. Bowra
Penelope is “a key to the unity of the poem”
John H Finley jr.
“loyalty is a treasured quality”
Jasper Griffin
“Justice, in the Odyssey, is both done and seen to be done”
Jasper Griffin
“The fidelity of Odysseus’ wife is crucial to the story”
Jasper Griffin
“Odysseus… is keenly concerned with possessions”
Jasper Griffin
Odysseys is “no puppet”
Morrison
Penelope is “defined exclusively by her marital status”
Emily Wilson
Penelope “has endured suffering equal to that of her husband”
Morrison
Athene “acts as a surrogate father for Telemachus”
Peter Jones
The suitors are from “the cream of the populace’
John Halverson
”Amphinomous is comparatively blameless”
Robin Sowerby