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Odyssey 4, 10/01/10, Conclusion

Published: Oct. 4, 2010, 5:31 p.m.

Last class on The Odyssey: address between husband and wife.\xa0 Lattimore's translation of the exchanged address between Odysseus and Penelope as \u03b4\u03b1\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03af\u03b7 as "You are so strange."\xa0 Homer (though Lattimore doesn't indicate this), has Hektor and Andromache also address each other this way.\xa0 Address as well to strangers -- range from an affectionate "Silly" to a more existential "daimon-haunted."\xa0 The two greatest similes in the Odyssey.\xa0 Penelope's trick.\xa0 Life defeats death.