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| | Seoul Hero » Books VII & VIII of The Odyssey: Brief Thoughts on Structure, Origins, and Homeric Authorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | In one of those cities, a dispute is settled, as Knox noted in his introduction to The Iliad, according to the process of law, even as Odysseus and Laodamas make amends after trading insults and barbs in the Phacian court. |
 | | Odysseus, thus riled up, acquits himself at the discus, and then challenges everyone–but ends by emphasizing that his “legs have lost their spring.” To that cue, Alcinous summons Demodocus, who sings what is meant to be a song for comic relief, the story of the adultery of Aphrodite and Ares. |
 | | What follows this tale of life in the peaceful city, governed, like the one on the shield of Achilles, by law, is the immediate reconciliation of Odysseus and Laodamas, the latter wishing Odysseus a safe journey home, where, as we readers know, his wife awaits him. |
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