Saturday, 5 August 2017

What instructions does Nausicaa give Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey?

Nausicaa tells Odysseus
to "follow the mules and wagon," walking with her maids toward town, while she leads
the way. Once they begin to approach the city, she tells Odysseus to stop and wait in her
father's orchard, giving her and her maids time to get to her father's house within town.
Nausicaa does not want people in town to see her with Odysseus, because they will assume that
she is behaving too boldly and improperly for a young woman. After waiting for some timeenough
time for the princess and her maids to get homeOdysseus should walk to the city and ask someone
the way to the king's palace. As soon as he reaches the mansion, he should go "quickly,
across the hall until [he] reach[es] [her] mother." Nausicaa encourages Odysseus to
approach her mother, Arete, and "grasp [her] mother's knees" instead of greeting her
father, the king, first. She says that this is the best way to guarantee her parents' help so
that he will live to "see the day of [his] return" to his home in Ithaca. The queen
must "take [him] to her heart" in order for this to happen.

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