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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.08,0:00:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if we needed anymore indication from\Nbook one that it was time for Telemachus
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.04,0:00:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to, to grow up a little.\NIt actually comes out of Athena's mouth in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.02,0:00:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her disguise.\NShe's standing next to him on page 87 and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.06,0:00:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says you must not cling to your boyhood\Nany longer, it's time you were a man.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.00,0:00:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, Telemachus realizes it's time to\Nchange, somethings got to give.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.26,0:00:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It spurs him into his action of failed\Nattempt to rile the suitors in his of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.01,0:00:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning of Book two.\NAnd then, he gets ready to haul off on
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.76,0:00:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this tour with mentor as his guide,\NAthena.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.41,0:00:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he does head out on this tour,\Nhe's going to learn things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.21,0:00:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Travels a way for him to gain knowledge.\NAnd in his tour round these great capitals
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.09,0:00:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in books three and four, what Telemachus\Nis really going to do is take a journey
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.64,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a past.\NAnd this past is already something that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a kind of grandeur to it.\NHe'll look at Pylos and this wonderful
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.03,0:01:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wealthy citadel of, of, of that we see\Nwith Nestor.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.05,0:01:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, we're going to move on to Sparta\Nand see Menelaus and Helen of Troy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.58,0:01:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,herself.\NWe're going to see grand figures that are
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.47,0:01:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already a mythic proportion according to\Nhow Telemachus marshal his engagement with
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.76,0:01:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them.\NI thought in making this turn to this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.93,0:01:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grand past such as we're going to see in\Nthree and four, I might just toss up here
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.35,0:01:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a slide of a famous probably our most\Nfamous ancient citadel from this time, the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.65,0:01:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,citadel of Mycenae, Agamemnon's palace\NThis is so-called lion gate and it has an
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.83,0:01:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,air of majesty to it.\NAnd, thinking back to the time when this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.03,0:01:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was built back in the first early, you\Nknow, early, early, early times first
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.33,0:01:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,millennium BCE and even before these\Ncitadels emerged up out of the out of the,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.62,0:01:54.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the plain around us and at a time, when\Nthere were simple agrarian folk in most
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.11,0:01:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parts of the world.\NThere would be these grand citadels.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.05,0:02:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the memory of time as the citadels\Nage and as history builds up around them,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.80,0:02:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and events take place that involve these\Nplaces, eventually people start to think,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.09,0:02:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my gosh, how in the world did they build\Nthose things, anyway, all those centuries
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.24,0:02:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ago?\NAnd when they did that, they started down
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.98,0:02:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a path of imaging that their ancestors\Nwere greater than they were.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.21,0:02:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They even called these stones, Cyclopean\Nstones because they felt there was no way
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.06,0:02:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a human being could have moved them and\Nthey are kind of things that only a
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.03,0:02:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cyclops could move.\NSo, there was a, a, a kind of, of mythic
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.01,0:02:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,orientation toward their deep past that\Nthe Greeks already had during Homer's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.10,0:02:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time.\NThe, the impulse here to look at your
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.46,0:02:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ancestors as being much greater than you\Nwere leads us to our first universal law
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.66,0:02:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the course.\NI'm going to give you a few universal laws
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.92,0:02:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the course guarantee to be universal\Nmoney back guarantee.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.72,0:03:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how much money do we pay for a course\Nthere anyway?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.56,0:03:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, universal laws are money back\Nguarantee.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.62,0:03:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Universal law number one, nostalgia is the\Nmost powerful force in the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.80,0:03:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people are looking back to their past\Nthey always imagine that it must have been
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.63,0:03:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,better.\NSeems to be something that is exhibited
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.89,0:03:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across time and surely the Greeks are\Nsusceptible to this form of nostalgia as
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.75,0:03:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well.\NSo, Telemachus has his cue, it's time to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.76,0:03:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go and off he goes.\NHe's going to visit two amazing places.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.92,0:03:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Athena's going to bring him along.\NHe's going to see Nestor's coastal city.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.02,0:03:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he does, he's going to move from\Nthe his edge of his island of Ithaca and
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.84,0:03:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a trip down by boat to Pylos.\NNow remember, when he arrives by boat in
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.70,0:03:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pylos, what does he see there on the\Nshore?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.83,0:03:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are nine divisions of 500 people\Neach.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.64,0:04:00.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, already, we've got 4,500 people on a\Nbeach, that's probably going to arrest
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.85,0:04:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your attention.\NAnd now in case, we haven't gotten your
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.02,0:04:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attention, each of those groups of 500,\Neach of those nine groups of 500 is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.07,0:04:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slaughtering nine bulls.\NSo, we've got 81 bulls being slaughtered
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.08,0:04:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simultaneously on a beach.\NIf that doesn't grab your attention, then
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.03,0:04:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you probably need some smelling salts.\NWhat Telemachus sees there absolutely is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.09,0:04:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just extraordinary to him.\NThe grandeur of this scene something
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.06,0:04:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazing.\NAnd the display of wealth, the conspicuous
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.01,0:04:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,display of wealth.\N81 bulls during Telemachus' time is, a, a
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.02,0:04:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fortune to last, you know the equivalent\Nof a fortune that could last a huge chunk
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.08,0:04:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a lifetime.\NAnd yet, here they are just being expended
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.77,0:04:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this one event on the shores as he\Ngoes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.08,0:04:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we know we're entering into a world of\Ngrandeur.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.07,0:04:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, keeping in mind that this is a\Nworld of grandeur, we're always going to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.94,0:04:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be remembering, although it's going to\Ntake Telemachus a little while to remember
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.64,0:05:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,himself, that this should be the kind of\Ngrandeur that exists in his household.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.45,0:05:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And instead, these vagabonds are running\Nriot across it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.88,0:05:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From Pylos and then, we go over land, over\Nto Sparta.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.35,0:05:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that point, we're going to meet\NMenelaus, Agamemnon's very brother, and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.95,0:05:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Helen of Troy, that face that launched a\Nthousand ships.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.98,0:05:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to have a private audience\Nwith her through Telemachus' eyes, we're
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.30,0:05:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to see Helen.\NNow, through this trip through this
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.20,0:05:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,traveling that Telemachus is going to do,\Nit's a way for him to gain knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.09,0:05:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the same time, he's mirroring in a\Nsmaller, more controlled way, the kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.02,0:05:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adventure that his father is on.\NFor each of them the experiential
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.06,0:05:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowledge that's gained through traveling\Nis something that's profound, that's
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.05,0:05:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powerful, that's life-shaping that gives\Nthem tools, and that allows them to
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.06,0:05:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,advance in their own lives.\NTravel is a deeply powerful tool according
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.94,0:06:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the scale of values.\NSo as he gets ready to make his journey,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.04,0:06:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,makes his connection gears up his boat,\Ngets his provisions, makes his way to
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.02,0:06:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pylos, sees this grandeur, he sits down\Nand has his audience with Nestor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.06,0:06:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he gets to Sparta, he'll sit down and\Nhave his audience with Menelaus and with,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.77,0:06:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Helen.\NNow, at each turn, the, the elders sit
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.39,0:06:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back and listen to Telemachus' version of\Nevents, and the first thing they do, when
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.67,0:06:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they hear what is happening, is to react\Nthe way, presumably, we're being taught a
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.07,0:06:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,person should react, they don't just feel\Nsorry for Telemachus, they don't pat him
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.08,0:06:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the head and give him some Kleenex,\Nthey're angry.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.01,0:06:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're angry.\NThe constant exhibition of Telemachus's
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.00,0:06:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,elders after he tells them this story is\Nto feel anger.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.25,0:06:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see this multiple times as the story is\Nbeing told.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.32,0:07:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Athena has already shown it page 85, as\N[unknown] mentor, she is outraged and she
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.01,0:07:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talks about how shameful this exhibition\Nis.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.06,0:07:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On page 134, we hear from Menelaus, we\Nalso hear from Nestor, that this is
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.03,0:07:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shameful what's happening.\NAnger comes up when they hear this.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.25,0:07:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tour is partly an education for\NTelemahus to be schooled in how his
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.35,0:07:24.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emotions ought to be working.\NHis emotions need some calibration.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.89,0:07:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They need some changing.\NOftentimes, I think we think that emotions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.24,0:07:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are just kind of natural responses to\Nthings and that just by nature you are
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.76,0:07:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to feel things like embarrassment,\Nor anger, or joy or what, whatever it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.25,0:07:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the stance that Homer is taking here\Nin the Odyssey is a little bit different.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.06,0:07:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems that Telemachus actually needs\Nsome schooling in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.01,0:07:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's an acculturation that he needs to\Ndo to know that it is right now to feel
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.07,0:07:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anger.\NThat is the kind of emotional response he
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.20,0:07:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should be having.\NEach person that he talks to expresses
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.88,0:08:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that.\NThen also, at each turn, we hear a
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.03,0:08:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particular name that's brought up.\NWhen we're talking to Nestor on page 113,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.08,0:08:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the name Orestes comes up.\NAthena disguised as mentor on page 115
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.02,0:08:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talks about Orestes.\NMenaleus, page 141.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.08,0:08:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After hearing the story of what's\Nhappening in Telemachus household, talks
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.05,0:08:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Orestes, and in fact, casting our\Nmind back for a second, back to book one
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.07,0:08:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zeus in his introductory remarks right at\Nthe very beginning, talks about Orestes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.03,0:08:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right on page 78 in the translation.\NAt each point a person who mentions
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.24,0:08:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orestes is an older authority figure.\NThey're reacting to this expression of
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.96,0:08:47.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powerlessness.\NIn Zeus' case, it's the idea that people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.25,0:08:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just toss up their hands and it just feels\Nlike everything is just faded and it's the
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.55,0:08:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gods fault.\NInstead, take action like that Orestes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.77,0:08:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did.\NThe mentor Nestor and Menelaus each after
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.91,0:09:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they hear the story that Telemachus tells\Nand of his own pathetic powerlessness in
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.94,0:09:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the situation say, oh, have you heard the\None about Orestes?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.84,0:09:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what are they referring to?\NWhat is this situation involving Orestes?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.56,0:09:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it just so happens that the, one of\Nthe famous stories of homecoming is
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.43,0:09:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that's already percolating in\Nthe background of Homer's Odyssey.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.64,0:09:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Agamemnon famously makes his way\Nhome, he gets home pretty quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.60,0:09:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a struggle for him to get a ship\Nback to his to his citadel.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.92,0:09:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when he does, he sees his wife.\NHello and I'm, I'm back home.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.22,0:09:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't realize that his wife has taken\Nup a liaison with a lover and that the two
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.85,0:09:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of them go ahead and murder Agamemnon\Nshortly after he arrives.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.22,0:09:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this is an awful thing, Clytemnestra,\NAgamemnon's wife, and her lover killed the
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.71,0:09:56.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,head of household, Agamemnon, her husband.\NNow, it just so happens that within the
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.100,0:10:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Greek ethical code, if someone kills your\Nfather as a son or a daughter, it is now
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.17,0:10:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your duty to kill your father's killer.\NWell now, what happens in Agamemnon's
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.76,0:10:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,family?\NAgamemnon's own son and daughter are
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.82,0:10:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,responsible now for taking revenge against\Nthis killer, which means for them, killing
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.18,0:10:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their own mother.\NThis is a nasty business.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.85,0:10:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is ugly, and this is awful.\NIn Homer's version of it, the part that's
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.69,0:10:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really emphasized is the lover part,\NAegisthus.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.77,0:10:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's, he's talked about as the one most\Nresponsible for the death of Agamemnon.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.02,0:10:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, Orestes goes ahead and takes care of\Nbusiness and kills Aegisthus.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.83,0:10:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's a messy story.\NIt's already messy in Homer's time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.53,0:10:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you get even messier when we\Nconcentrate on it in our out weeks of the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.47,0:10:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,class, we're going to turn to, after we\Nturn to classical Athenian tragedy we're
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.98,0:10:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to see the story of Agamemnon told\Nthrough Aeschylus' eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.95,0:10:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My goodness, that's going to make my hairs\Ngrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.54,0:11:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when Homer focuses on it, what he\Nmeans to point is, Orestes in a situation
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.15,0:11:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was very ugly and very nasty, he had\Nthe gumption to do what needed to be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.57,0:11:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in a situation where that was nasty,\Nnasty business, Orestes, did, what needed
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.12,0:11:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be done.\NOrestes and the story of run, cycling
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.45,0:11:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around Agamemnon show up multiple times in\NHomer's Odyssey.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.19,0:11:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in relation to Telemachus, they always\Nshow up as this kind of coda tom that's
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.82,0:11:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,placed on the end of Telemachus feeling\Nsorry for himself in the code that comes
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.46,0:11:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a more, from an older more\Nexperienced person saying, you know what,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.24,0:11:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in the nasty business that Orestes\Nhad to take care of, his house was all
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.22,0:11:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,messed up and Orestes came in and took\Ncare of business.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.19,0:11:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when Telemachus is being schooled on\Nhow he should be reacting to the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.02,0:11:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's being introduced generally to the\Ngrand and aristocratic world that is his
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.52,0:11:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,birthright, that he ought to be enforcing\Nto be his own on the island of Ithaca,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.65,0:12:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's being introduced to an emotional\Nresponse.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.52,0:12:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's being enculturated to the right\Nemotional response.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.98,0:12:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anger is what the person is supposed to\Nfeel when something as nasty as what is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.12,0:12:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happening in your house is happening.\NNot pity , not sorry for yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.01,0:12:16.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not powerlessness.\NHe's also being schooled in historical
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.41,0:12:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lessons.\NBy saying, look, if you're in this
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.38,0:12:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,situation, you think you've got it bad,\Nwell, don't overlook what happened in a
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.92,0:12:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,similar, you know, in a, in a situation\Nthat was surely as bad as yours, and
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.80,0:12:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably much worse.\NAlso, Orestes took care of business in his
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.78,0:12:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own situation.\NAnd you, as the son of a father whose
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.27,0:12:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being displaced by people that are eating\Nyou out of house and home, it's going to
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.85,0:12:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be incumbent upon you, their hinting,\Nhinting, hinting to take action yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.04,0:12:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go ahead and be the Orestes of your own\Nstory and take action.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.08,0:12:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, in book four, there's a wonderful\Nscene that I just wanted to spend a little
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.04,0:13:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bit of time with, we get to after we've\Nhad a chance to meet Nestor and his
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.02,0:13:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazing display of wealth we get a chance\Nto see what's happening, in the, the house
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.90,0:13:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of house of Menelaus.\NWe also get to see that beautiful woman
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.10,0:13:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Helen of Troy herself.\NShe comes in and has an entrance into the
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.05,0:13:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,story.\NWe get to hear from her and hear her own
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.09,0:13:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,story.\NWhen she does jump into the story there
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.54,0:13:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are some interesting things for us to\Nrecognize.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.05,0:13:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, her beauty.\NHer bewitching guile.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.07,0:13:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's extraordinary.\NIt's, it's obviously overwhelming.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.22,0:13:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is indeed the face that launched a\Nthousand ships.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.08,0:13:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we get to see her she brings in a\Nnice bowl for us to drink from that is
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.03,0:13:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to soothe our, our pains or else an,\Nan alcoholic beverage.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.08,0:13:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But she also adds to it something extra,\Nsomething special.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.06,0:14:00.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are special drugs that she got on\Nher sojourn in Egypt when she and Menelaus
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.79,0:14:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were blown off course.\NAnd these drugs, she can now mix into
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.100,0:14:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wine, that mix into this wonderful potion,\Nwhere no one could feel any pain for
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.28,0:14:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having had it.\NThe narcotic effect of the wine is another
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.07,0:14:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing that seems to be hovering around the\Naura that is Helen.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.53,0:14:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in the case of Helen, we have beauty,\Nwe have magical power, we have
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.23,0:14:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intoxication.\NA little bit of danger, as well, because
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.13,0:14:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she can bring you out of this world.\NAll of these things together showing up in
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.85,0:14:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the figure of Helen, this is a cluster of\Nideas that we're going to see visited
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.74,0:14:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regularly in Homeric epic.\NOf women who have power.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.01,0:14:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who have very clear erotic dimension to\Ntheir power.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.03,0:14:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who also are mixed up in the idea of, of,\Nof magic.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.24,0:14:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who have extraordinary beauty.\NAnd who when they arrive in a room, turn
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.03,0:14:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lots of heads.\NThere's a tremendous power that Homer sees
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.62,0:15:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in, in this cluster of ideas, and we're\Ngoing to see it represented in multiple
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.45,0:15:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,places as our story moves forward.\NNot least, when we turn to away from our
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.21,0:15:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,story of Telemachus in the first four\Nbooks of the Odyssey and move on to meet
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.67,0:15:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our hero, the man himself the, the, the\Nman the muses are singing of, Odysseus.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.58,0:15:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll appear in our next lecture.