The Odyssey - Reader's Notes

Page 1

1. EPITHETS

1. Zeus

2. Hermes

3. Calypso / Deméter

4. Poseidon

2. Three days

3. She has him trapped

4. She loves him as a husband

5. Immortality

6. Yes, he still decides to go back to his wife despite her being mortal

7. I would characterize it as difficult and laboring

8. Eighteen

9.

10. It is immortal

11.

12.

To go or not to go

How to get about getting to land

No, he is helped by Ino and Athena

Page 2

1.

Fairest Goddess - Calypso

Aeæa's Cunning Woman - Círcë

2. Ismarus in Cicones

3. The Cicones are group affiliates with Ismarus. Their city is Ismarus, which Odysseus sacked

4. The lotus-eaters are harmless people who eat Lotus. The Lotus, once eaten, is irresistible.

5. He placed a giant boulder at the front of the cave.

6. Cheese and milk.

7. No, they are very uncivilized.

8. He doesn't give his real name, he uses the wine to knock the Cyclops out, he wounds him, since he said his name was nobody he didn't get help.

9. He made the Cyclops angry and Poseidon angry. He caused himself this mess

Page 3

BOOK TEN

1. 1 Ship

2. She is immortal and trickster

3. Swine

4. She drugged them when they drank the wine. She didn't like the way they acted

5.

6. Moly

7. She is beautiful and tempting, made promises. It is becoming a pattern, he did stay with Calypso.

8. 1 year

9. He wants to return to Ithaca

10. The Underworld

11.

12. He breaks his neck

Page 4

BOOK 11

1. To remember him

2. Sacrificed ram and eve, offered milk and honey, sweet wine, and pure water. Barley and pledged to return to Ithica.

3.

4. He can still return to his home if you so chooses but it will be difficult

5. He learns his wife has not remarried, Telemachus is good. He tried to hug her but he fails because she is dead.

6. Women are untrustworthy and treacherous, only tell part of the truth

7. Odysseus won the armor, Ajax is jealous and blames his death on Odysseus.

8. Menacing, evil, rude

9. Miserable, depressed, and in pain

Page 5

BOOK 12

1. To get Elpenor a proper burial

2. Tells him how to get home and what will happen at each island. She tells him about the sirens and not to slaughter the cattle

3. He can be easily tempted. Music is very powerful and influential.

4. Go to C first so S can't attack. This shows that S follows the leadership of C.

5.

6. To leave the cattle alone

7. Eurylochus because he started to rebel

8. No