relationships: parent and children

    Cards (10)

    • T and parents: acts as a pivot to the plot
    • T and parents: for P, his coming of age is cue for remarrying, and for Ody, an adult son means an ally against the Suitors
    • T and parents: gives another perspective on Penelope
    • T and parents: she has to readjust to a son who is beginning to assert his male authority, and he is in the position of giving instructions to a woman who is much cleverer than he is
    • fathers and sons: Telemachus learns from Ody how to be a hero
    • fathers and sons: Antinous' father was saved by Ody (bk 16), and so Antinous' behaviour is doubly reprehensible
    • fathers and sons: Amphinomus is reminded that his father had a rep for being good (bk 18) and that he should try to emulate him
    • fathers and sons: the miserable Achilles in Hades rejoices in the news of his son's renown (bk 11)
    • fathers and sons: when called upon by Polyphemus, Poseidon avenges the wrong done to his son
    • fathers and sons: Orestes avenges the murder of his father, Agamemnon
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