A Guide to the Odyssey: a Commentary On the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald
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Sparta’s splendor puts modest Ithaka in perspective. Telémakhos has never seen anything like it (see 77–81). But be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home (see 186 and 641, below, and for the sentiment, IX.38–40).
The “double wedding feast” is that of Hermionê, the daughter of the royal pair, to Neoptólemos, Akhilleus’ son, and of Megapénthês, Meneláos’ son by a nameless slave woman, to the daughter of Alektor. Megapénthês’ name means “great sorrow” and would refer to Meneláos’ distress a...t Helen’s departure with Paris. Homer says that “the gods had never after [Hermionê] granted Helen / a child” (13–14), which sounds to modern ears like a discreet reference to fertility problems. It’s more likely an oblique reference to Helen’s infidelity: the couple have been apart for most of the past twenty years, during the first ten of which Helen was Paris’ lover. Finally, it highlights the fact that, in contrast to Odysseus and Nestor, Meneláos has no legitimate male heir.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Sparta’s splendor puts modest Ithaka in perspective. Telémakhos has never seen anything like it (see 77–81). But be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home (see 186 and 641, below, and for the sentiment, IX.38–40).
The “double wedding feast” is that of Hermionê, the daughter of the royal pair, to Neoptólemos, Akhilleus’ son, and of Megapénthês, Meneláos’ son by a nameless slave woman, to the daughter of Alektor. Megapénthês’ name means “great sorrow” and would refer to Meneláos’ distress a...t Helen’s departure with Paris. Homer says that “the gods had never after [Hermionê] granted Helen / a child” (13–14), which sounds to modern ears like a discreet reference to fertility problems. It’s more likely an oblique reference to Helen’s infidelity: the couple have been apart for most of the past twenty years, during the first ten of which Helen was Paris’ lover. Finally, it highlights the fact that, in contrast to Odysseus and Nestor, Meneláos has no legitimate male heir.
What to read after A Guide to the Odyssey: a Commentary On the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald?
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