Odyssey question
Jean Alvares <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Aug 2019 08:21:57 +0700
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While I was working on something utterly different, for reasons only Platonic recollection may explain, it suddenly occurred to me that Athena's story, which she told to Telemachus as she was encouraging him, about how Mentes' father gave Odysseus poison for his arrows, might be seen as proleptic, pointing to how Odysseus will use arrow and trickiness (symbolized by the poison) to restore his household at the end. I have never seen a comment like this on the passage about the arrows. Any comments or references much appreciate