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41 Cards in this Set
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Describe smells of ogygia |
Scent of burning logs, juniper, cedar, |
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Two types of birds in ogygia |
Horned owls, falcons |
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What did Calypso give Hermes |
Ambrosia, a cup of red nectar |
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How did calypso react? |
She shuddered, cursed the gods, called them jelous |
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How does calypso try to entice Odysseus to stay? |
She offers him immortality |
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How does calypso try to entice Odysseus to stay? |
She offers him immortality |
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How long does it take Odysseus to make the boat |
4 days |
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How does calypso try to entice Odysseus to stay? |
She offers him immortality |
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How long does it take Odysseus to make the boat |
4 days |
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What is the effect of having a long passage in the boat building? |
Most of the audience would had been men, they could relate |
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How does calypso try to entice Odysseus to stay? |
She offers him immortality |
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How long does it take Odysseus to make the boat |
4 days |
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What is the effect of having a long passage in the boat building? |
Most of the audience would had been men, they could relate |
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How long does he sail before reaching scherie |
18 days |
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Where had Poseidon been? What was the effect of this? |
Visiting the Ethiopians, he didn't notice Odysseus sailing, he would have created a storm to kill O |
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During the storm, what did Odysseus wish had happened to him? What does this tell us about him? 3 |
That he died in the battle of Troy and given a proper burial. He was a warrior, brace and v traditional |
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Quotes from the storm: |
"Darkness swooped down from the sky" "Tossing about the fields a ball of thistles" "His spirit failed" "Mountainous wave" "sea is seething" |
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Who helps Odysseus? |
Ino of the slim ankles |
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What does she tell him to do? |
Take her veil,tie it around his waist, when he reached shore, throw its into the river without looking back |
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Suppliant |
Someone appealing for help |
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What condition was Odysseus in on arriving in scherie? |
Swollen flesh, brine gushed from his mouth and nostrils, winded, weak |
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Who lives in Scherie? |
The phaeacians |
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How does Athene help in book 5? |
She appeals to Zeus, calms storm after Poseidon leaves, gives Odysseus the idea to cling to the rocks and swim around the waves, |
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How does Athene help in book 5? |
She appeals to Zeus, calms storm after Poseidon leaves, gives Odysseus the idea to cling to the rocks and swim around the waves, |
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How longs was Odysseus in ogygia |
7 years |
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What is Hemes likened to? |
Like a seagull |
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What is Hemes likened to? |
Like a seagull |
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What was Odysseus relief at the sight of land likened to? |
Like that of children at the recovery of their ailing father |
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What does Athene do at the beginning of Book 6 |
Athene comes to N in dream as N's friend, tells her to go washing. |
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What does Athene do at the beginning of Book 6 |
Athene comes to N in dream as N's friend, tells her to go washing. |
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What does Arete give Nausicaa |
Food, oil, clothes to be washed |
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What did Nausicaa do on arriving to the river? |
Let the mules graze, wash clothes, leave to dry, bathe (with oil), play ball, |
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What makes Odysseus wake? |
Athene blows the ball into the river, the girls scream, loud |
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How does Odysseus appear? |
Naked, covering manhood with a branch, like a mountain lion |
What does he look like, described to? |
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How did Odysseus try to convince Nausicaa to help him? |
Described her as Artemis (virgin goddess), paid her compliments, described her as a palm tree in Delos ( shoes he thinks she's innocent and sacred), told her that he was previously commanding an army |
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How did Athene help after Odysseus bathed |
Made him hot, hair like hyacinth petals, more muscular, taller |
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How does Odysseus get to the palace? |
Meet Athene disguised as a young girl carrying a pitcher. She shrouds him in magical mist. Leads him to the palace |
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How does Odysseus get to the palace? |
Meet Athene disguised as a young girl carrying a pitcher. She shrouds him in magical mist. Leads him to the palace |
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Description of the palace, name of king |
King Alcinous, High roofed halls, gold and silver dogs made by Hephaestus, bronze walls |
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Cool facts about scherie: |
Orchards that bloom all year round, pears, pomegranates, apples, figs, olives, grapes. Great harbour, favoured by the Gods, fast ships |
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How does Alcinous show Xenia? |
Sits Odysseus in his fav son's chair, a maid pours water from a golden jug into a silver bowl to wash his hands. Food and wine |
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