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what has more folktale patterns than the illiad |
the odyssey of homer |
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contrast the ending of illiad and odyssey of homer |
homer ends happily, illiad ends tragically |
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when was the odyssey of homer written down |
750 BC |
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what does the odyssey explore |
what it means to be anindividual mortal. |
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when is odysseus full identity realized in homer |
in his proper place, his ownbed in his own house with his own wife. |
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where has odysseus been for 20 years ( 10 trying to get back home) |
island of Ithaca for 20 years. |
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what are the suitors doing |
want to marry his wife penelope, become king, violating xenia (eating all his food sleeping w his servants) |
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who is telemachus |
son of odyssey on ithaca |
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what books tell the story of telemachus |
books 1-4 |
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what do the suitors do to Telemachus |
they mock he and his mothers authority so he senses that his life is in danger |
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what does Telemachus do |
journeys to find news of his father, going tosee the Iliadic heroes Nestor and Menelaüs |
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what do books 5-8 of the odyssey present |
Odysseus and the final stage of his journey home |
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who's lover has he been for the last seven years |
sea nymph and goddess Calypso |
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what does calypso offer odysseus |
immortality but he refuses because he just wants to b w his wife penelope <3 |
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who persuades who so that odysseus can go home |
athena persuades poseidon, wrath of athena has been softened |
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who comes to tell calypso to let odysseus go |
hermes |
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how does odysseus leave |
builds a raft, sets sail, is tossed about by storms |
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where does odysseus wash up |
he washes up naked on the island of Phaeacians |
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who is nausicaa |
daughter of the king |
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who rescues odyssey from island of Phaeacians |
Nausicaa, she cleans him up and brings him to a palace |
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who is demodocus |
old blind singer that many see as a double for homer himself |
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what are books 9-12 |
presented ashis own narration of his adventures before hecame to Phaeacia |
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what does odysseus start w |
his departure from troy and he lands at ismarus in thrace |
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who does odysseus fight at ismarus in thrace |
the Ciconians |
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where is he transported after leaving ismarus |
the land of myth |
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where does he go first in the land of myth |
land of lotus eaters |
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what is lotus |
drug that causes one to forget homecoming, and get so mellow that one never wants to leave only eat more lotus |
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what does odysseus do when he finds out about the drug lotus |
orders his men back to the ships |
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where do they sail next |
islandoftheCyclopes,greatone-eyed giants, and they begin to explore. |
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how many of odysseus' men enter the cave of the cyclops polyphemus |
12 |
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how does polyphemus respond to the entering of the cave |
bashes two men's brains in and eats their bodies raw |
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what does polyphemus use to seal the cave |
a giant boulder, cyclops has no problem moving eat eats two more men the next day |
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what does polyphemus leave his cave to do |
pasture his livestock, giving them one day to prepare |
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what do he and his men do |
hide in the back of the cave, odysseus get polythemus drunk w special wine two more men are eaten in the process |
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what does polyphemus ask odysseus |
his name, he responds w nobody polyphemus gets so drunk he vomits human flesh and passes out |
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what does odysseus do w the stake |
heat it up and drive it into polyphemus' one great eye |
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what do odysseus men do the next morning |
grab under bellies of polyphemus' sheep and slip out the cave unseen |
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what does odysseus do when he gets back on his ship |
taunts polyphemus and reveals his real name |
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what does polyphemus then do after he founds out it was odysseus |
tell his father poseidon take make his journey back as hard as possible or to deny his homecoming |
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where does odysseus sail next after island of cyclopes |
island of Aeolus, god of the winds. |
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what does aeolus do w all the bad winds |
puts them in a bag, tells odysseus to sails back in the good winds |
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what do odysseus men do when he falls asleep |
open the bag and they go all the way back to where aeolus was, aeolus then curses them |
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where do they sail after they get cursed |
land of the Laestrygonians,who are cannibalistic giants like the Cyclopes. |
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what happens to all of odysseus men who are not on his ship |
they are all attacked and eaten |
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where do they sail to after his men get eaten |
island of Circê, a witch, daughter ofthe sun god, who turns half of them into animals |
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who helps odysseus to resist circe spells |
hermes, takes him to bed for a year |
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what does circe tell odysseus |
he has to go to Hades or theUnderworld to learn how to get home |
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what island do they sail past |
the island of the Sirens, who singsuch a beautiful song that anyone who hears justwants to stay and listen` |
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what dos odysseus do to his men when they go by island of sirens |
plugs his men’s ears with wax but hasthem tie himself to the mast, so he can listen. • When he asks his men to untie him, they justbind him tighter, as they were told to do. |
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where do they sail next after the island of sirens |
straits between Scylla and Charybdis (proverbial of two bad choices). |
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Charybdis |
a whirlpool that sucks in whole ships |
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Scylla |
a monster with six heads |
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how many men does odysseus lose when he goes to the straits of charybdis and scylla |
6 |
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what island do they come to next after he loses 6 men |
island of Helius the sun god |
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they get trapped by adverse winds and get hungry what happens next |
they kill and eat Helius’ cattle, even thoughCircê and Odysseus told them not to |
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when they sail next what does helius have zeus do |
smash the ship with a thunderbolt |
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he is the only one who survives when zeus smashes ship w thunderbolt |
odysseus bc he didn't eat cattle |
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where does odysseus wash up after he is the only one that survives |
island of Calypso,where we first meet him in Book 5. |
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who thinks the story is fantastic and bring him back to ithaca w lots of treasure which he hides in a cave |
Phaeacians |
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who does odysseus stay w |
his swineherd Eumaeus, who offersproper Xenia. |
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where does odysseus come across his son telemachus |
at swineherd eumaeus' place |
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what are books 13-16 |
forms the first thirdof the Ithacan part of the story. |
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what do books 17-21 cover |
Odysseus comes to the palace disguised as a beggar |
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who is rude to odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar |
he suitors and their leader Antinous |
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who recognizes him at first sight but then dies |
His old dog Argus |
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who recognizes him from the scar on his leg from a boar hunt in his youth |
His old nanny Euryclea |
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what does penelope do after she interviews the beggar |
She says she will marry whoever can string thebow and shoot an arrow straight through the holesof 12 axe heads lined up in a row |
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what are the final four books 21-24 |
the showdownbetween Odysseus and the 108 suitors |
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how does odysseus kill the 108 suitors |
with the help of Athena Odysseus kills all 108 ofthe suitors with his bow in cold blood. |
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Odysseus and Achilles |
Clever trickster vs. great warrior |
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Achilles strives for glory in the moment |
Odysseus endures hardship for homecoming. |
