What does this mean? What is a sea faring place? Why must he put his oar there?
I'm supposted to write a stanza about the undertaking of Odysseus placing his oar in a place where sea faring is unknown.
Can anyone help?
2006-08-29 04:34:58 · 4 answers · asked by mandym5276861 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The Land of the Dead
Teiresias tells Odysseus everything that will happen to him and his crew.
Teiresias tells Odysseus that after he kills all of the suitor, he is to take an oar inland until someone asks him why he is carrying a "winnowing fan." A winnowing fan is used to remove the useless dry outer covering from the grain. The people who ask this will have never seen the sea or an oar. Odysseus is to place the fan in the ground and make a sacrifice to Poseidon. After doing this Odysseus is to return to Ithaca and make sacrifices of 100 cattle to each of the gods. This will appease all of the gods. Odysseus will live a long life and die when he is at sea.
Odysseus was a sea farer because he lived by the sea and a part of his living came from the sea. Thoses who llive inland, have never seen the sea.
2006-08-29 05:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by vlteach 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been a long time since I read the Odyssey, but if I remember correctly he is still on water at the time of planting his oar where sea faring is unknown, so it means he is a place where no human has ever sailed to (or anything else capable of sailing, meaning various gods/nymphs/fairies and the like). Or he stopped at a place/country that has no sailors or any human living there who has ever sailed. Reread the part to find out which is correct.
2006-08-29 04:42:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sea faring is unknown = pretty much a place SO far away that no one has touched the water w/ their "oar" before....... no one has gone that far, no one has touched that part of the water w/ their boat....... showing that Odysseus has gone farther than any man, OR that it's so dangerous and far away that no one has tried to go there......
2006-08-29 04:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by sasmallworld 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a guess but, seems like people who live in the middle of a dessert probably don't/didn't know about seafaring.
2006-08-29 04:37:17 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋