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| Jacque Charles Emile's The Swineherd (1890) |
*Today we discuss a pretty sweet chapter, a tender musing upon the twin traits of lowliness and loyalty as embodied in Odysseus' swineherd. Notice that the shift in authorial voice from third to second person ("And you replied, Eumaeus, loyal swineherd") most likely denotes, according to many critics, "a mark of the poet's special affection for Eumaeus." What does this imply about the foundation for Achaean society for Homer? Is it found in aristocracy, rhetoric? Or . . . is it something more fundamental, earthy?
HW: Finish Book 15
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