Like Homer’s other epic, the Iliad, the Odyssey begins in medias res, or in the middle of things. Rather than open thestory with the culmination of the Trojan War, Homer begins midwaythrough Odysseus’s wanderings. This presentation of eventsout of chronological sequence achieves several different goals:it immediately engages the interest of an audience already familiarwith the details of Odysseus’s journey; it provides narrative spacefor a long and evocative flashback later in the text (Books 9–12),in which Odysseus recounts his earlier travels; and it gives thestory a satisfying unity when it ends where it began, at the houseof Odysseus, in Book 24.
Most important, the in medias res opening infuses theforeground of the story with a sense of urgency. Were the narrativeto begin with the happy victory over Troy and the beginning of Odysseus’strip back to Greece (a journey the Greeks would have expected tobe brief at the time), the story would start at a high point andgradually descend as Odysseus’s misfortunes increased. By commencingwith a brief synopsis of Odysseus’s whereabouts and then focusingon Telemachus’s swift maturation, the narrator highlights the tensionbetween Telemachus and the opportunistic suitors as it reaches aclimax. Spurred on by the gods, Telemachus must confront the suitorsto honor his father.
Telemachus has already begun his own psychologicaljourney by the end of Book 1. Homer highlightshis progress by showing how astounded the suitors are to be toldso abruptly that they will have to leave the palace after the nextday’s assembly. Indeed, calling the assembly is itself a sign ofTelemachus’s awakening manhood, as Aegyptius notes at the beginningof Book 2. But even before his confrontationwith the suitors, the confrontation between him and his mother revealshis new, surprisingly commanding outlook. When Penelope becomesupset at the bard’s song, Telemachus chooses not to console herbut rather to scold her. His unsympathetic treatment of her andhis stiff reminder that Odysseus was not the only one who perishedare stereotypically masculine responses to tragedy that suit himto the demands of running his father’s household. He supplementsthese behavioral indications of manhood with the overt declaration,“I hold the reins of power in this house” (1.414).
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Odyssey, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home after the Trojan War. Learn more about the Odyssey. I Next have to Speak of the Books This is the staple of those three thousand pages'under whatever name the stanzas may be presented'forming Canons and Odes; as, Troparia, Idiomela, Stichera.
Note the sudden transition from the person of the Psalmist to the person of the Lord (v. 10). This is like the canonical Psalter in style.
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1 Open ye, open ye your hearts to the exultation of the Lord:
2 And let your love be multiplied from the heart and even to the lips,
3 To bring forth fruit to the Lord [fruit], holy [fruit], and to talk with watchfulness in His light.
4 Rise up, and stand erect, ye who sometime were brought low:
5 Tell forth ye who were in silence, that your mouth hath been opened.
6 Ye, therefore, that were despised, be henceforth lifted up, because your righteousness hath been exalted.
7 For the right hand of the Lord is with you: and He is your helper:
8 And peace was prepared for you, before ever your war was.
9 Hear the word of truth, and receive the knowledge of the Most High.
10 Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.
11 Keep my secret, ye who are kept by it:
12 Keep my faith, ye who are kept by it.
13 And understand my knowledge, ye who know me in truth.
14 Love me with affection, ye who love:
15 For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine;
16 For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:
17 I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby.
181 took pleasure in them and am not ashamed of them:
19 For my workmanship are they and the strength of my thoughts:
20 Who then shall rise up against my handiwork, or who is there that is not subject to them?
21 I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:
22 And my righteousness goeth before them and they shall not be deprived of my name, for it is with them.
23 Ask, and abound and abide in the love of the Lord,
24 And yet beloved ones in the Beloved: those who are kept, in Him that liveth:
25 And they that are saved in Him that was saved;
26 And ye shall be found incorrupt in all ages to the name of your Father. Hallelujah.
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