![]() ![]() In his poem Ulysses (1842), Tennyson imagines a bitter and restless Ulysses, unhappy with his old wife and prudent son, often leaving the rocky shores of Ithaca, sailing to 'savage' (eesh) lands to explore and conquer. I certainly don't think so, and nor did Lord Alfred Tennyson. ![]() So then, once he got home, do we think that poor, weary Odysseus would rest at his hearth for the rest of his days? ![]() Hence the ten years it took him to get home. Clever Stupid Odysseus incurred the wrath of the Cyclops' father: just a powerless loser. Therefore, when Polyphemus' fellow cyclops asked him who had hurt him, he said 'Nobody blinded me!' and they were all: alright cool.īut then, Odysseus' stupid male ego got the better of him and, as he sailed away, he told Polyphemus the name of the man who had blinded him, and that he hailed from Ithaca. Take, for instance, when he escaped the cyclops Polyphemus, blinded him, and cleverly told him that his name was Nobody. I would like to take this moment to remind you of Odysseus' primary character trait: cleverness a monstrously large ego. So, what happened to Odysseus after he returned to Ithaca?ĭid he just kick back, relax, and tell stories of the glory days (or, rather, gory days - heh)? That's what ruddy-faced Menelaus and wrinkly Nestor were doing, and if it's good enough for those Achaean kings, then surely it would be good enough for Odysseus, king of rocky, goat-y Ithaca? ![]()
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