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 ====== The Concept of Civilization in Homer's Odyssey ======
-**Written by Frank Redmond, 2006**
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 The Phaeacian way of life, in juxtaposition to the Cyclopean way of life, is structured, sophisticated, and harmonious; in a word, civilized. The Phaeacians live in a society where everything works together as a structured whole. Thus, their society is lawful and cultured, whereas the Cyclopes' is precisely the opposite. Furthermore, their society has many technai [arts], which is something that the Cyclopes as a whole lack. It is precisely these basic attributes - law, organization, and craftsmanship - that make civilization possible, for without them barbarism easily rears its ugly head.
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 What also makes the Phaeacians more civilized than the Cyclopes is their sophisticated art of seafaring. The Cyclopes' inability to sail, let alone get off their own island, makes them uncivilized. The Cyclopes are prisoners to their own island home since they lack the intelligence and technical craft to venture out further, even to the fertile island found adjacent to theirs. As the text says: "Not very far from the harbor of the Cyclopes" country .. there lies a luxuriant island. [...] The Cyclopes have nothing like our ships with their crimson prows; they have no shipwrights to build merchantmen that could give them the means of sailing across the sea to visit foreign towns and people, as other nations do. Such craftsman would have turned the [adjacent] island into a fine colony for the Cyclopes" (9.118-9; 9.124-130). As can be inferred, not only are the Cyclopes not capable of sailing, they are devoid of any sophisticated art or craft that would advance their civilization beyond its present cradle-like state.
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