Premium Content The Bed and the Scepter - The Odyssey and The Iliad in a Nutshell
By Sarah Withers - October 18, 2002
In his epic poems, Homer often chooses commonplace objects to symbolically encompass many themes of the story. In The Iliad, a golden nail-studded scepter embodies the major themes of the epic, and the marriage bed of Odysseus and Penelope serves the same role in The Odyssey. Through close examination, it is apparent that the themes of both the…
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