conventions
think hard
themes
similes
examples of?
100
setting
What is story spans nations?
100
xenia
What is hospitality
100
xenia
What is hospitality
100
comparison for “As when a smith plunges a great axe or adze into cold water, and it hisses loud as he tempers it - though this is what gives iron its strength: so his eye sizzled around the olive-wood stake”
What is the sound of the axe in water to the eye sizzling
100
child of morning, rosy fingered dawn
What is epithet
200
an example is when Odysseus hit Iros in the head
What is Hero is larger than life?
200
when Telemachus became a man
What is when he killed a man
200
dolos
What is trickery
200
The comparison for "Think of a catch that fishermen haul in to a halfmoon bay in a fine meshed net from the white caps of the sea:how all are poured out on the sand, in throes for the salt sea, twitching their cold lives away in Helios' fiery air: so lay the suitors heaped on one another."
What is dead suitors to dead fish
200
" for he was ashamed to let the Phaecians see that he was weeping"
What is penthos
300
Tell me O Muse!
What is the invocation
300
When Odysseus achieved his homecoming
What is when the suitors were dead and he makes up with Penelope
300
penthos
What is sadness
300
Comparison of “She found then Odysseus among the slaughtered bodies, spattered with blood and gore like a lion come from eating an ox in the field, whose whole chest and jaw all round are bloodied, and he is a fearsome sight”
What is Odysseus bloodied to a lion eating an ox
300
"If anyone asks you who it was that put your eye out...say it was Odysseus..."
What is tragic flaw of pride
400
in medias res
What is in the middle of things
400
The worst of the word- he got what he deserved.
What is Melanthios the goat herd
400
women
What are ALL the bad characters
400
comparison of As when an octopus is dragged out of its lair and the pebbles cling thick on its suckers, so the skin was stripped from Odysseus’ brave hands and left clinging on the rocks”
What is pebbles stuck to the octopus is like Odysseus skin stuck on the rocks
400
"Tell me, do you submit to treatment tamely, or do the people of your town, hate you?"
What is father/son conflict
500
deus ex machina
What is gods getting involved
500
end of the father son conflict
What is T. hangs the maids OR when he has a good word for the bard.
500
Eurykleia, Eumaois, Poloitios
What is three most loyal retainers
500
comparison of “He snatched up two together and smashed them on the ground like puppies: their brains ran out and soaked the earth. Then he tore them limb from limb and made them his supper. And he ate them like a mountain lion, leaving nothing”
What is cyclops eating men like a lion eating
500
"He gave Odysseus some slices cut lengthways down the loin as a mark of especial honor..."
What is xenia
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