Does anybody remember The Odyssey?

[Zaitsevs]

I'm working on a packet for class, and I just have one question left to do. The question says, in what other books of Homers, was the olive tree significant?

Does anybody know off hand? I can't think of it.

 

[iluvtruenos]

Yes.

 

[jagec]

Ultimately, it's just another minivan, so it's not for me.

 

[Zaitsevs]

Was it the Illiad? That just came from my memory earlier in the year, but I'm not sure.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Zaitsevs
I'm working on a packet for class, and I just have one question left to do. The question says, in what other books of Homers, was the olive tree significant?

Does anybody know off hand? I can't think of it.

He built their bed with 4 of the olive trees and their trunks. It has some signifigance at the end to tricking the other guys but I forget what it was. Penelope asks him something about it I think.

EDIT: yes it was definately the odyssey

EDIT2: Ah here we go,

"The mansion is purged with fire and brimstone. Odysseus tells everyone to dress in their finest and dance, so that passers-by won't suspect what's happened. Even Odysseus could not hold vengeful kinfolk at bay. Penelope still won't accept that it's truly her husband without some secret sign. She tells a servant to make up his bed in the hall. "Who had the craft to move my bed?" storms Odysseus. "I carved the bedpost myself from the living trunk of an olive tree and built the bedroom around it." Penelope rushes into his arms. Odysseus tells her of his adventures and of the prophecy that he has one more journey to make, at some undetermined future time, before settling into peaceful old age."

EDIT3 : Nevermind, reading comphrhension for the win!

But, yes I remember an olive tree in the illiad also

 

[FoBoT]

i am not THAT old

crustyoldman on the other hand, maybe

 

[JoeFahey]

The Iliad I think.

 

[JDrake]

:music: and you touch the distant beaches with tales of great Ulysses :music:
I loved that book(/song).

Anyways, here's what I could find:

The Iliad and the Odyssey also contain numerous references to the olive tree, the tree of Athena. Homer in the Iliad compares the fall of Euforbos, defeated by Melenaus in the battlefield, to the fall of the olive tree that ..."grows handsome, agitated by all kinds of winds, covered with white flowers, that suddenly, when a hurricane comes, is from the earth uprooted and thrown to the ground".

It was with oil that Auricle anointed the body of Ulysses, the hero. Of olive tree wood was the log that killed Polyphemus.