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Monday, October 17, 2016

Tuesday, October 18 - Can you identify the owner of the epithet?

Telemachy essays due please!
Housekeeping: Will you be here in class tomorrow? 

Just for kicks and review...who is the epithet naming?


      SEE IF NOW YOU CAN IDENTIFY THESE: 
         far seeing__________
         breaker of horses____________
         rose-red fingered_____________
         quick-witted___________ 
         wary and reserved_________
         bright-eyed___________
         Icarus' daughter _____________
         warlord dear to Zeus____________  
         earth shaker___________
         bard of Ithaca ______________
         red-haired____________
         flashing steel grey-eyed___________
         Menelaus’ wife__________
         Laertes' son____________
         Agamemnon’s son____________
         Clytemnestra’s lover ___________

         Agisthesis’ murderer ____________

        Agamemnon’s brother___________

   .           visits Ithaca and advises Telemachus__________
   2          accompanies Telemachus to Sparta___________
               Odysseus’ nursemaid ____________
               glancing eyed_______________    



Review Book V
Fast Forward Notes on Books VI-VII

HW: Book VIII ~ You will see O's character through his interactions with the Phaeacians.
Journal 22: Book VIII

  1. Odysseus is insulted by Broadsea. What does he accuse Odysseus of being? Why? 
  2. With Athena's help, what athletic feat does Odysseus accomplish? 
  3. Odysseus brags that he is an accomplished athlete but allows one test where the Phaeacians would likely win. To which test does he refer? Why? 
  4. Why do you think Homer interrupts the narrative to have Demodocus sing about the love of Ares and Aphrodite?  
  5. What do we learn about Odysseus through the contrast between his behavior and that of the young Phaeacians?  

         
Lwt

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