Odyssey Finale

Well, this week, we reached the end of the enormous epic that is the Odyssey. The end wasn't particularly interesting to me, and I can't exactly say why... It just wasn't the type of reading that I would normally go to for entertainment. Then again, that fan really be said for the majority of the Odyssey... And I have to say I am left with nothing that I didn't have before. I was unable to find a trace of a moral or lesson of any kind really. And the way I see it, if a story has no point, then it is a waste of time. I would not; however say this abOut the whole of the story, as granted there were some more intense parts, but as an end result, I confess myself unimpressed.

The Odyssey: books 13-17

The reading this weak I found to be somewhat dry and anticlimactic, I suppose simply due to the fact that the bulk of the pertinent story that I have grown to know is now over, and we now returned to the adventures of Telemachus, rather than Ulysses. One thing that confuses me, however, is that, although Ulysses is talking with Eucameus (the swine-herd.. I think that's his name...) he doesn't tell him that he is Ulysses. I don't exactly understand what he or Minerva is trying to gain by keeping his true identity Anonymus. It seems like it would help the situation rather than hindering it, but that's just my opinion.