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The Odyssey
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- Preface
- Book I
- Book II
- Book III
- Book IV
- Book V
- Book VI
- Book VII
- Book VIII
- Book IX
- Book X
- Book XI
- Book XII
- Book XIII
- Book XIV
- Book XV
- Book XVI
- Book XVII
- Book XVIII
- Book XIX
- Book XX
- Book XXI
- Book XXII
- Book XXIII
- Book XXIV
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- Summary Book XII
- Summary Book XIII
- Summary Book XIV
- Summary Book XV
- Summary Book XVI
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Understanding Odyssey
1. What does the Odyssey give greater weight? Cite folklore motifs to support your answer. 2. What does the meeting of the assembly at Ithaca illustrate? What political organization is featured? 3. Why does not Telemachus become king of Ithaca? Why does not Laertes, Father of Oddyseus, come out of retirement to take over the reins of government and save Penelope from all her difficulties with the suitors? 4. Throughout the Odyssey, Homer contrasts the legend about the coming of Agamemnon with the story of Odysseus. What could be his purpose? 5. What transformation has taken place in the values and outlooks of the heroes of the Trojan war as manifested by Menelaus and his wife Helen? 6. In what way is Odysseus different from the typical epic hero? In your opinion, can he be considered the first “modern man”? 7. How can you interpret the wanderings and adventures of Odysseus in the year after the fall of Troy? 8. Describe the land of the Phaecians. What does it symbolize? What do Achaians and Arete idolize? Books 7-12 1. What does the raid on Cicone city of Ismaurus by Odysseus and his men demonstrate? 2. What can you associate with the lotus plant? Why do those who eat it quickly lose all memory? 3. What does the episode with the cyclops Polyphemus symbolize? 4. What does the crew of Odysseus symbolize in the episode of the bay of the winds given by Aeolus? What lesson is important? 5. What motif in European folklore is common and similar with Odysseus encounter with Circe? Can you think of a folktale that is familiar variant of the episode? 6. What other stories in Greek mythology parallels the visit of Odysseus to Hades? How do you regard this episode? 7. How do you view Odysseus? Encounter with the Sirens? What kind of test did he undergo? 8. Compare/ contrast the obstacles that Odysseus and his crew encountered on the island of the sirens and seylla and Charybdis. What kind of test did Odysseus master in Seylla and Charybdis?
Posted By tmen at Sun 24 Aug 2008, 6:44 PM in The Odyssey || 0 Replies
I need a specific edition of The Odyssey
Does anyone know where I can find the "Red Reader", "Teacher's Discovery 2005" edition of the odyssey. The ISBN is 075600338-8 and the bar code is 9 780756 003388. I can't find it at either B&N or Amazon and have checked both the bar code and ISBN online (search) and can't find it anywhere. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks. :bawling:
Posted By Neekie at Thu 26 Jun 2008, 3:52 PM in The Odyssey || 1 Reply
Help with Book 22 Lines 390 - 419 Please!
Hi everyone! Just looking for some help, I have to write only a 500 word essay on the internal structure, external connections, larger significance, also any intrinsic literary properties of this passage. But I'm really stuck. Book 22 Line 390 - 419 'Then Odysseus said to Telemachus: "Now call Euryleia.............which of them are disloyal to and which are innocent." (pp.340-341 - Penguin) or (p.274, Oxford world's classics edition.) Any help would be really greatly appreciated! Thanks heaps
Posted By V07teh at Mon 24 Mar 2008, 9:37 PM in The Odyssey || 0 Replies
Homework on The Odyssey
Odyssey Homework (And A Few Others) I have some homework on the Odyssey (Questions) that were assigned to me when we covered the book. The answers are not the greatest but hope they help :) Leave a message if there are problems/comments/anything else :)
Posted By adzempire at Mon 3 Mar 2008, 8:41 PM in The Odyssey || 0 Replies
Odyssey
hi guys, can u show me where I can buy the Book?
Posted By nonvirna at Thu 21 Feb 2008, 12:26 AM in The Odyssey || 0 Replies
Odyssey?
What happened right before the end?:confused:
Posted By YelloWCarD at Wed 23 Jan 2008, 9:22 PM in The Odyssey || 2 Replies
Questions on Odysseus and Penelope's Journeys
so I have a a few questions that came up while I was working on my English paper on the influence of a hero's gender on their journey. (it's a comparative study of Homer's Odyssey and Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad) Penelope and Odysseus obviously faced very differet challnges, but which of these challenges were personal, and which were external? What of their accomplishments? After all of Odysseus's feats and victories, did he ultimately fail at his most outright objectinv - to preserve? In all of Penelope's plots of warding off the suitors, and attempts to maintain her husband's kingdom, does she in fact fail her husband in any way? if not, why do I get the feeling that Odysseus not trust her? If anyone wants to tackle any of this, or tell me what I got wrong ...
Posted By midnight_poet at Sat 12 Jan 2008, 8:52 PM in The Odyssey || 0 Replies
I have some question?
In book 18 quoted by Iros the begger Odysseus fought what does this mean? "how the dirty hog''s tongue doth run like an old kitchen wife! I should like to give him a good right and left, and knock out all the teeth from his jaw as if he were a sow in the growing corn." Or another translation is- "you run on trippingly like an old fish-fag. I have a good mind to lay both hands about you, and knock your teeth out of your head like so many boar's tusks." This is for help on a test tomarrow on book 13-18, please help!!!:sick:
Posted By Chocoholic8a at Wed 9 Jan 2008, 7:33 PM in The Odyssey || 0 Replies
Odysseus
hi! ummm help needed by a student going insane.....i'm trying to write a paper on how some of Odysseus's choices delayed his arrival home and things of that nature and i'm having trouble with textual evidence anyone want to help be my guest....i'm thinking i'll use circe somehow, i tried to use calypso but i have no real evidence so please help is needed :D
Posted By Jewls at Sun 30 Dec 2007, 9:47 AM in The Odyssey || 0 Replies
Telemachus...
I am writing an essay on the Odyssey and I was wondering if anyone knew the exact line number of the phrase,“No god. Why take me for a god? No, no. I am that father whom your boyhood lacked. and suffered pain for lack of. I am he.” I am stumped, Mostly because I am writing out of memory. I do not have a copy of my own. Help a girl out.
Posted By Emiliah at Thu 13 Dec 2007, 10:46 AM in The Odyssey || 1 Reply