STORY 0:00 – 45:00
The Great Wanderings continue, and disaster follows disaster. First Odysseus squanders opportunity for easy homecoming via King Aeolus’ magical bag of wind. And then Odysseus loses most of his ships and crew, in the Lastrygonian harbor of death.
POST-STORY COMMENTARY: THE ODYSSEY AS LITERATURE’S DEFINING QUEST STORY 45:00 – 1:13:00
I offer a detailed primer on all of the traditional elements of the Quest (or road trip) story, including: the “call”; battling the monsters; resisting the temptations; the journey to the Land of the Dead; deific assistance; and the “final test”. I utilize illustrative examples from Odyssey, and from a host of other novels, films and television shows. I explore in detail the role of the 600 crew member “red shirts” of Homer’s Odyssey.
RELATED IMAGES
I struggle to find details – title of work, name of artist, date – for some images. If you can help, please forward information to me. Thanks. Jeff
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- Aeolus Offers a Bag of Wind
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- Another Windbag Image
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- Best Aeolus Painting EVER
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- Aeolus should have written this warning in Linear B
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- Lastrygonians Destroy the Fleet
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- An alternate “student-version” of the story, in which the cannibals eat the ships, and not the sailors!
