I see, you see, we all Odyssey
Spends all day weaving a burial shroud, and all night unweaving it
Penelope
Identify the error:
These freshman don't know anything!
contraction
(informal style)
“I did not believe / your proclamation had such power to enable / one who will someday die to override / God’s ordinances, unwritten and secure. / They are not of today and yesterday; / they live forever.”
Antigone
“But Romans, don’t forget that world dominion / Is your great craft: peace, and then peaceful customs; / Sparing the conquered, striking down the haughty.”
Anchises
"The berries of the tree, spattered with blood, assumed the sable hue; the blood-soaked roots tinged with a purple dye the hanging fruits"
Pyramus and Thisbe
He comes of age as his father comes home
Telemachus
The students flip books were fun to look at.
apostrophe error
The king of Thebes who makes a controversial edict
Creon
“Out of my grave let an avenger rise, / With fire and iron for Dardanian settlers— / Now—someday—when the power is there to strike. / Our shores will clash, weapons and seas collide. / My curse is war for Trojans and their children.”
Dido
The first age of man
Gold
This drunken shepherd might try to eat you (and kill your puppies!)
Polyphemus
He enjoys playing video games but he would rather be doing his literature homework.
comma splice
Antigone's fiancé
Haemon
______ kills _______ and takes a swanky belt.
Turnus; Pallas
In the Metamorphoses, when things change, it seems to be from something higher to something lower. For example: a human changes into an animal; an animal turns to stone; a woman changes into a man.
Who is the woman that changes into a man?
Caenis
(Lapiths and the Centaurs)
“Keep your joy in your heart, old dame; stop, do not raise up / the cry. It is not piety to glory so over slain men.”
Odysseus
He is harder, faster, better, and has the strength of a thousand men.
parallel structure (violation)
The blind prophet who identifies the king as the city's sickness in 2 different plays
Tiresias
The two things Aeneas carries with him from burning Troy:
Anchises and his household gods
Name the 2 tapestry weaving ladies we read about
1) Arachne
2) Philomela
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The greek word used in the invocation to describe Odysseus. It can be translated to mean: many ways, many minds, and many turnings.
Bright with lights and ornaments, cars drive through Christmas tree lane every December.
dangling modifier
The 4 children of Oedipus
Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, Ismene
He may have been right about the Trojan horse thing, but oops, he and his sons got eaten by snakes
Laocoon
“He was supreme in war and peace; though not his great campaigns triumphantly concluded, nor his feats achieved at home, his glory gained so fast, made him a star, a comet new in heaven, rather his son. For nothing he achieved was greater than to sire this son of his.”
Apotheosis of Julius Caesar