![]() Mitchell Morse explains, this episode depicts how “the metamorphosis of literary styles both reflects and produces the endless metamorphosis of our ways of thinking” (Morse 48). Just as Proteus repeatedly shifts his shape, this episode’s technique of “monologue (male)” demonstrates the changeability of our minds. ![]() From Proteus (via Menelaus), Telemachus learns that his father is alive but trapped on Calypso’s island. ![]() Menelaus holds on, and the elusive old god finally returns to his normal form and tells truths about the journey home. ![]() Difficult to pin down, Proteus changes into a lion, a snake, a leopard, a boar, water, and a tree. In The Odyssey, Menelaus describes to Telemachus his ambush of the shape-shifting sea god Proteus.
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