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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Odyssey, Book 3

Book three is about Nestor. Telemachus meets with Nestor in Pylos to ask him about his father. The whole book is Nestor telling Telemachus about Ulysses and everything he knows. There are also tales of others who fought in the battle of Troy.
I thought it was a very boring book. It was also very long and wordy. There were not many things to catch your attention, or to interest you in the slightest. It seemed like one huge block of information after another, put in your way to reading the Odyssey. Not my favorite book, that I can say.
You did meet alot of people along the way, in many of Nestor's words he includes other warriors, and some of those who had fallen in battle. Some of it was very hard to focus on.
At the end of the book, Telemachus and Pisistratus set off to talk to another man recomended by Nestor. Here they seek more news of Telemachus's father. (Pisistratus is one of Nestor's sons)

2 comments:

  1. I agree. Nestor is boring. How do you even pronounce his son's name? Pisiritisoris?

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  2. Pisi-stratus? (Phi-sih) Yeah, I have no idea...

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