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Odyssey
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where is Odysseus currectly? Who is listening to him tell his tale? | -the island of Pheacia -he tell the story to the Phaeacians a beautiful princess and her father King Alcinous |
| how does Odysseys define himself? How does he fell about his home? | -strong and motivated to return home -his home is the best place on earth |
| Who are the Lotus Eaters? What does the Lotus do to those who eat it? | -a group of people who live on the Lotus flower -they lose their desire to return home -forget tehir home and stay on the coastline forever |
| How are the Cyclopes portrayed? In what sort of land do they live in? | fierce and uncivilized, lacking the social structures and laws - not properly tend field, mountain cave, land is a desreted island with a natural harbor -tending their own flocks, isolated -self-sufficent, barbaric, hostile to outsiders |
| How does Odysseus lie to the Cyclopes? | 1. his ship broke after crashung on rocks 2. his name is Nohbdy |
| How does Odysseus escape the cave? | 1. offers wine to make him drunk. 2. says name is "Nobody." 3. is asleep, wooden stake into his eye, blinding him. 4. Polyphemus calls "Nobody" is attacking him, so other Cyclopes do not help 5. tying themselves to the undersides of sheep. |
| What does Athena instruct Odysseus to do when she meets him on the shores of Ithaca? Where does he go? | -disguise himself as a beggar -Tells him to seek shelter with Eumaeus, a swineherd, in a hut |
| When Odysseus first reveals his identity to Telemachus, how does Telemachus react? | -thunderstruck -incredulious -suspects he is a god in disguise |
| What does Odysseus ask his son to do? | gathering info on the suitors: 1. how many suitors 2. how many weapons do they have |
| What lessons/warnings does Odysseus learn from Tiresias, the blind prophet? From Circe? Do Odysseus and his crewmates follow this advice? | Tiresias: he would eventually return hom ebut he shouldnt injure Helio's cattle Circe: dont injure Helio's cattle, warns of the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and instructs him to steer towards Scylla and try not to fight back They kill the cattle |
| who are the Sirens? Why are they dangerous? | mythical creatures (sea nymhs) who live on an island in the sea -enchanting voices lure sailors to their deaths |
| What is Charybdis? What does this monster look like? | -ship-devouring whirlpool -enormous, |
| What happens as a result of the crew on Helios' island? | -they kill and eat Helios' sacred cows -Helios is furious, demands Zues punish them, zues throws a lightning bolt, destroying the ship and his whole crew perishes in the sea |
| What lessons/warnings does Odysseus learn from Tiresias, the blind prophet? From Circe? Do Odysseus and his crewmates follow this advice? | Tiresias: he would eventually return hom ebut he shouldnt injure Helio's cattle Circe: dont injure Helio's cattle, warns of the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and instructs him to steer towards Scylla and try not to fight back They kill the cattle |
| who are the Sirens? Why are they dangerous? | mythical creatures (sea nymhs) who live on an island in the sea -enchanting voices lure sailors to their deaths |
| How do the suitors treat the beggar? | -all are welcoming except Antinous |
| What does Antinous, the leader of the suitors do? | -insults Odysseus and throws a stool at him |
| What is Charybdis? What does this monster look like? | -ship-devouring whirlpool -enormous, |
| What happens as a result of the crew on Helios' island? | -they kill and eat Helios' sacred cows -Helios is furious, demands Zues punish them, zues throws a lightning bolt, destroying the ship and his whole crew perishes in the sea |
| What disguise does Odysseus use when he returns home? Why is he in this disguise? | -a poor beggar -wants to see if his wife and the suitors are faithful -sllows him to asses the situation while also maintianing the element of surprise |
| What reason does the beggar give Penelope for not talking to her about the past? | -brings back painful memories |
| How do the suitors treat the beggar? | -all are welcoming except Antinous |
| what scheme does Penelope use to trick the suitors and make them wait to marry her? | -says she'll think about marriage when she finishes a burial shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes -pretending to weave a shroud -unravels the shroud at night - the maid catches her |
| What does Antinous, the leader of the suitors do? | -insults Odysseus and throws a stool at him |
| Who is the first suitor to die? How is he killed? | -antinous -Odysseus shoots an arrow through his throat |
| How do the suitors react to Antinous' actions? Why do they feel the wat they do? | -disapprove -shocked he opposes the norms of guest-host hospitality -suspect Odysseus is a god in disguise |
| what does Eurymachus say to Pdysseus? | -Antinous made them do it -offers peace -offers wine, meat, 20 oxen, bronze, gold as a peace offereing |
| Why does Penelope ask that the beggar be sent to her in her chamber? | -ask him privately about her husband's whereabouts -wonders if he has heard anything about him |
| Who does Telemachus kill? How does he kill him? | -Amphinomus by driving a spear into his chest |
| What reason does the beggar give Penelope for not talking to her about the past? | -brings back painful memories |
| who are the 4 people who fight against the suitors? | Tememachus, Odysseus, and 2 allies |
| what scheme does Penelope use to trick the suitors and make them wait to marry her? | -says she'll think about marriage when she finishes a burial shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes -pretending to weave a shroud -unravels the shroud at night - the maid catches her |
| Who is the first suitor to die? How is he killed? | -antinous -Odysseus shoots an arrow through his throat |
| what does Eurymachus say to Pdysseus? | -Antinous made them do it -offers peace -offers wine, meat, 20 oxen, bronze, gold as a peace offereing |
| Who does Telemachus kill? How does he kill him? | -Amphinomus by driving a spear into his chest |
| who are the 4 people who fight against the suitors? | Tememachus, Odysseus, and 2 allies |
| Why does the nurse think that the beggar is Odysseus? | There is a scar from a boar's tusk on his foot |
| How does penelope react to the news that hte beggar is Odysseus? How does she treat the man? | Given the long years of uncertainty and the presence of many impostors, she is cautious and does not immediately accept the claim. -refuses to talk to him -skeptical -indifferent |
| How does penelope tes tot beggar to see if he is really her husband? | -she say the he moved the bed -he made the bed for them by having a growing tree as one of the posts -you would have to kill the tree to move the bed -Odysseus gets angry and offended |
| At the end of the story, what does Athena demand? | Athena demands that hte families of the suitors and Odysseus do not fidht -demands peace |
| Cyclops | Individual member of the race of one-eyed giants |
| Penelope | Odysseus’s wife |
| Poseidon | God of the sea and earthquakes -father of polyphemus |
| Alcinous | King of the Phaeacians and person to whom Odysseus relates his story |
| Sirens | Sea nymphs who sing songs that lure men to their deaths |
| Ithaca | -odysseus’s home and kingdom -an island |
| Antinous | Rudest of Penelope’s suitors |
| Polyphemus | A cyclops and son of Poseidon -odysseus blinds him |
| Laertes | Odysseus’s father |
| Helios | God of the son, another name for Apollo |
| Achaeans | Greeks; Odysseus’s men |
| Telemachus | Odysseus and Penelope’s son |
| Athena | Daughter of Zues and goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare who helps her chosen heroes. |
| Charybdis | Dangerous whirlpool personified as a female monster swallowing huge amounts of water and then belching it out, creating dangerous whirlpools that could sink ships |
| Tiresias | Blind prophet from the underworld -warned odysseus not to harm Helios sacred cattle |
| Agamemnon | King and leader of the Greek forces during the Trojan war |
| Calypso | Immortal sea nymph who held Odysseus captive for many years -she falls in love with him, but receives a strongly worded order from Mt. Olympus -she helps Odysseus make a raft |
| Odysseus | King of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan war |
| Circe warnings | to reach home must journey to the land of the dead to consult the blind prophet Tiresias the Sirens The Wandering Rocks, sea rocks that destroy even birds in flight: Scylla and Charybdis the cattle which Tiresias has warned Odysseus not to harm |
| circe | Enchantress who lives on the island of Aeaea. -desired and detained Odysseus -transforms half of the men into swine. Protected by a magic herb, Odysseus demands that Circe change his men back He stays on the island for a year |
| Zeus | King of the Gods -god of thunder/the sky |
| Phaeacia | -after sailing away from Calypso on the raft, Poseidon returns from Africa and causes a storm -Odysseus is shipwrecked on the Island of Phaeacia -a beautiful princess and her father King Alcinous live here |
| Scylla | sea monster of gray rock -six-headed monster who lives in a cave on a high cliff above a ship-devouring whirlpool named Charybdis |
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