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Review of The Odyssey
In the epic the Odyssey by Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
one of the most descriptive and best written passages in the entire epic is
“The Slaying of the Suitors” (book 23 lines1-62). This is a good passage
for many reasons, one of these is that it is a part of the story tha ....
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.... has come. You die in blood.”
(page 410 lines 37-43). This quote gives a good impression of the closure
that is given by this passage, included for this purpose, because it give
Odysseus his revenge, the suitors will die in disgrace, Odysseus has
finally returned to claim his place. The dominant impression created by
this passage is summed up in the quote above, vengeance, elation at the
deaths of the suitors and the felling that Odysseus is back and he's not
going to stand for what the suitors have done. This point of Odysseus not
standing for what they had done is further driven h ....
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