The Virtue Of Knowledge

Damion Desai Classics 150, Paper 1 557-53-7161 TA: Ionta This epic is a solemnization of all things that are enjoyed as pleasures by the people of Homers (or Odysseus) clock time; in fact, they seem just as relevant today. The rejoicing and pleasure given by good food, proper hospitality, music, art, and relationships (purely informal as well as deep and spiritual) could describe the indulgences of ultramodern hands and women as well. Elaborate descriptions of food in The Odyssey betoken that Homer spent a lot of time conjure the images as they are described. Every meal or visualise with food is narrated as vividly as the scenes of image work shift performed by Athena. It follows then that food was something that consumed the thoughts of the people of Homers time, its importance reflected in The Odyssey. Each time Odysseus, or Telemakhos in his brief journeys, tolerate new people or come upon a rum land, food is touch on. The shared meal, like today, is an important ritual. It is also operative because the hospitality showed throughout the book to traveling strangers and the types and scale of meals involved give the reader a sense of the warmth of a home. The theme of the home is central.



Odysseus is struggling to get home, but it does wish to be shown why home is preferable to an island paradise with a nymph. He went off to battle for fame and glory, yet knows the warmth and rejoicing derived from a proper home. Odysseus is a civilized man, being a king, and as such it can be shown that civilized men value the concept of the home. It gives the civilized man a level from which to proffer hospitality on others, and to indulge his own senses.

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