The voice used in the Odyssey as part of the narration becomes determinable when one considers this:
At the beginning of this tale the narrator or voice of this epic says " After Troy Ulysses was blown by the winds and due to being cursed by Poseidon to the seas he was guided by the divine face and goddess of wisdom Athena.
This metaphor can be translated in modern as , being a sailor and explorer Ulysses fate blew him to calypso's island. ZBeing a sailor he was fated to be on the sea though wise and drawn to exployr for the sake of wisdom.
Ulysses journey east ward was hard fought, it was a labour that exhausted his crew as he met storms over the Atlantic, the boat was tossed and turned, the crew of the ships thought they might be lost till the boats found shore, flopped or wrecked themselves against the shores of calypso's island. A metaphoric exaggeration referring to the ordeal of the journey.
So we have determined the style and character of the language, metaphors and images in the Odyssey and this should help our exploration of the rest of this tale
The word calypso used in the modern musical genera was drawn from an older word meaning sacred song or dance and this words origin predates the sugar trade and the age of discovery.
Calypso is a matriarchal society and it was a love affair with the Greeks where they marry the society and only wisdom gets Ulysses to leave the island otherwise he would have became an unknown immortal, rather than renown as he became.
Ulysses journey starts off way outside the pillars of Hercules as the winds of fate and choppy waters brought him to calypso's carib island. After seven years the Greeks continue their journey freed to journey on the open sea as Troy's rise and grip on the Mediterranean had ended.
till next wek.
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