Monsters
Read the excerpt from book 10. What epic hero trait does Odysseus display?
Eurylochus tells Odysseus what has happened and begs him to sail away from Circe’s island. Against this advice, however, Odysseus rushes to save his men from the enchantress.
Courage/bravery
My men stood up and made a fight of it—backed on the ships, with lances kept in play,
from bright morning through the blaze of noon
so holding our beach, although so far outnumbered;
but when the sun passed toward unyoking time,
then the Achaeans, one by one, gave way.
What epic theme is represented from this passage? EXPLAIN.
A. Beauty
B. Bravery
C. Hospitality
Bravery--explanations to be judged.
What two things are being compared?
“In a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:just so
that eyeball hissed around the spike.”
an extremely hot tool being dipped in cold water to the cyclops' eye popping when it got stabbed by the hot wood
Read the following excerpt from book 5. What epic hero trait does Odysseus display?
So Odysseus in the leaves hid himself,
while Athena showered sleep that his stress should end, and soon, soon.
In quiet sleep she sealed his cherished eyes.
Assistance from the gods
In book 11 (The Land of the Dead), when Odysseus tells Elpenor: "I promise you the barrow and burial", what epic theme does that represent? EXPLAIN.
Loyalty
The epithet “Calypso, the bewitching” tells the reader that she is WHAT archetype?
Wicked temptress
Read the excerpt from Book 22.
“Not for the whole treasure of your fathers, all you enjoy, lands, flocks, or any gold put up by others, would I hold my hand. There will be killing till the score is paid. You forced yourselves upon this house. Fight your way out, or run for it, if you think you’ll escape death. I doubt one man of you skins by.”
Odysseus is mad at the suitor's because they LACK what quality?
Loyalty
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
He saw the townlands
and learned the minds of many distant men
What epic hero trait does Odysseus show?
Vast traveler
Being reunited with Penelope is which part of Odysseus's epic journey?
Return home
What two things are being compared in the epic simile from book 5?
“A gull patrolling
between wave crests of the desolate sea
will dip to catch a fish, and douse his wings;
no higher above Hermes flew”
Read the passage from The Odyssey - Penelope.
"My lady, never a man in the wide world
should have a fault to find with you. Your name
has gone out under heaven like the sweet
honor of some god-fearing king, who rules
in equity over the strong: his black lands bear
both wheat and barley, fruit trees laden bright,
new lambs at lambing time—and the deep sea
gives great hauls of fish by his good strategy,
his folk fare well."
Based on the epic simile, the reader should envision Penelope as a queen who is A) Righteous B) Disloyal C) Cunning D) Deceitful
A) Righteous
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
`Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!
What epic hero trait does Odysseus demonstrate?
Cleverness/Cunningness
vocab in context:
Despite Calypso’s ____ for him, Odysseus insists on returning to Ithaca.
a. ardor
b. bereft
c. titanic
d. squall
A. ardor
What two things does the following epic simile compare?
Like a musician, like a harper, when with a quiet hand upon his instrument he draws his thumb and forefinger a sweet new string upon a peg: so effortlessly Odysseus in one motion strung the bow
A musician stringing an instrument to Odysseus stringing his bow
A giant whirlpool/maelstrom
Who is Charybdis?
What is Helios god of?
God of sun
Explain how Odysseus fits the epic hero trait of being a cultural legend
King, Trojan War, etc.
Explain how PENELOPE demonstrates epic hero qualities? Give at least 1 example
Answers may vary :)
Vocab in context
Telemachus spoke with incredulity when Odysseus said he was his father. This means Telemachus was:
a. angry that his father dared show up after so many years.
b. weeping uncontrollably.
c. disappointed that he had not recognized Odysseus earlier.
d. unable to believe the news.
D