While I was reading this, I got really annoyed how they kept using 'When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn appeared'! Could they not come up with anything better?
I think that as I read this, it is easier to understand because they aren't using a lot of big complicated sentences anymore.
Some of my questions while I was reading are:
1.) If Minerva hated Ulysses so much, why is she helping his son to find him? Does she feel guilty of what she did to him?
2.) When Calypso showed him the forest of the poplar trees that he could use to build a raft, wouldn't the boat wreck easier since the wood is lighter and dry? Did she show him this wood because she knew that Neptune would be after him?
3.) Since Minerva can provide a lot of things, why didn't she provide Ulysses with clothes when he walked up to the women?
4.) How many drink offerings do they make a day? I think in book 7 they make 3 offerings just while Ulysses is there.
Other than these, there were just questions like 'how old are they?' and general questions like that.
I was thinking that gold must be really abundant, or everyone that has been mentioned must be really wealthy.
I agree that the "child of the morning, rosy-fingered Dawn" is annoying, They seem to use it in every book. Maybe Homer had short term memory loss, and when he wrote the book he loved the expression and wanted to use it in a chapter. Then he kept forgetting, so he used it too many times.
ReplyDeleteI ALWAYS HATE THAT FREAKING ROSY-FINGERED DAWN!! WHY NOT ASHY-FINGERED NIGHT OR SOMETHING! EVERYTIME THAT COMES UP, WITH MY ACTIVE READING I PUT IN "GAAH"! I THINK I'LL EXPLODE IF I READ THAT ANYMORE TIMES!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Homer had a crush on the hypothermiatic dawn.........hehe. She'll be losing her fingers any moment now. You just wait.
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