Word: telemachus
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...Greek myth of Telemachus, the supposed orphan who found his father (Ulysses) and thus came into his kingdom...
...strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled on the Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still stout, decided it was just the thing for his 20th Century wine. Thus. Ulysses became Bloom, the wanderer in search of home, wife and son. Penelope was his wife Molly, Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism...
...scholars agree with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus "that cold-blooded egotist," Telemachus "the priggish son who yet met his master-prig in Menelaus...
Then it is Helen who is more inclined to look with favor on Orestes than is Menelaus-and Hermione grows jealous, for Helen is still Helen. The last scene is laid as Telemachus comes to the house seeking tidings of his father, Odysseus. Helen gives him a cup of wine. "He took it from her, his hand touched hers, and she smiled at him. It was as she had said; he forgot all his sorrows-as it seemed, forever. But the magic, he knew, was not in the wine...
...Hiad and Odyssey which usher in the literature of Europe are long poems of about 15000 lines each. The general subject of the Hiad is the wrath of Achilles and its due consequence, of the Odyssey, the adventures of Ulysses and Telemachus. Although there are many who doubt Homer's authorship, all agree that at about 1300 or 1200 BC the Greeks had attained much civilization and that songs were sung in which heroes were celebrated. Later the spirit of adventure was felt and this gave rise to new legends into which the old heroes entered. Myth and history became...