Odysseus Book Fact Test
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- In the Begining of the poem, the poet calls on the _____ for inpiration
- the muse
- homer opens his poem __ _____ ___, giving the necessary exposition in later portions of the epic. what does it translate to
- in medias res: In the middle of things
- What is the epic convention about the setting of an epic
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the setting is vast in scope, covering great nations, world, universe.
Greece, the heavens/olympus, the underworlds - who is the hero, and what is a hero in epics (3 things)
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the hero is a figure of
a. imposing statue
b. national or international importance
c. of great historical of legendary significance
ODYSSEUS - How does it recount the deeds of heros?
- In objectity
- How does the poet begin
- by stating the theme: Odysseus and his journey home
- how do the main characters talk?
- long and formal extended speaches
- what is an epithet
- repeated phrases, praticularly with repect to characters. The phrase that helps describe a character is called that.
- The action is frequently what
- a. important to the life of a nations history or race
- what is a stock phrase
- the poet makes requent uses of repeated phrases not especiall associated with any particula character. They most often describe important ideas of past events.
- Agisthos and agamenon to odysseus is what?
- parallel episode. The poet frequently uses parallel episodes which are juxtaposed for puposes of comparison and emphasis.
- the action consists of (2)
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a. deads of great valor
b. or super human strenth - who intrests themselves in te action and intervene form time to time? (4)
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a. supernatural forces
b. gods
c. anges
d. demons - Poet makes frequent use of what?
- the epic similie- very long
- I nearly destroy the greeks trojan horse plan by imitatin the voices of the hidden warriors wives
- Helen
- I'm the old seer who "reads" the flight of the eagles and warns the suitors to leave. what is his 5 part prediciton?
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Halitherses
a.19 years
b.many blows weathered
c.all crew lost
d.unknown to anyone
e.he will come - in the beginning of the poem, i am described as a "boy" even thoguht i'm around 20 years old
- Telemakhos
- I am so impressed with odysseus that i offer him my beautiful daughter's hand in marriage
- alkinoos
- i was murdered by my own son when he came to get revenge for his father's death
- Klytaimnestra
- I am telemakhos's nurse. He leaves and i am sworn not to tell penelope. I find odysseus in disguise by washing him and finding his scar, and i have to convince penelope it is him
- Eurykleia
- I, the red haired king of sparta tell telemakhos that his father is detained by kalypso.
- Menalaos
- when my gift of the bag of winds doesn't get odysseus home, i assume his voyage has been cursed and force him to leave
- Aiolos
- I disguise myself as a beggar and thus entered troy
- Odysseus
- i give odysseus my clothes so that he can meet my parents. My father offers my hand in marrige for him, and i am the first person he meets as he re-enters society
- Nausikaa
- I'm the sun god who "squeals" on Ares and Aphordite. I also get furious when odysseus's crew eat my sacrid cows
- Helios
- He tells Odysseus what to do and gives him the molu root to defeat Kirke, he also saves him from Kalypso
- Hermes
- I don't let odysseus go for fear of the gods. I am not hospitable, and odysseus injures and trick me
- Polyphemos
- I argue with hermes telling him that the gods are always jealous when immortal women hook up with mortal men. Odysseus stays with me for 7 years
- Kalypso
- Odysseus vistits me first, yet i don't have news of odysseus. I speak of what happened just after troy, and talk of Agamenon. I tell him to seek Menalaos
- Nestor
- God of the waters and seas. Ruins odysseus's ship while going to skeria.
- Posiedon
- I was killed by Orestes after i stole Agamemnon's wife, and then killed Agamemnon.
- Agisthos
- Killed by Agisthos on his homecomming day. urges odysseus not to trust penelope.
- Agamemnon
- killed agisthos after 7 years of exile and he killed Klytaminestra.
- Orestes
- Very rude. Blames penelope on why they are there. He is the leader of the suitors and the first to die
- Antinoos
- He is rude and insults halitherses. He begs for mercy and forgiveness, but when it isn't granted he fights and dies
- Eurymakhos
- he is the only decent suitor and odysseus thought he would let him leave, but athena made him stay. Telemakhos killed him with a spear
- Amphinomous
- Nestors son, accompanies Telemakhos in a charriot to sparta. He is a very good speaker and speaks up for telemakhos
- Peisitratos
- she protects odsyseus when poseidon is trying to kill him by giving him her vail, but she needs it back once he reaches the shore.
- Ino
- the queen of Skeria. Odysseus came to her and prayed for mercy and help. Her father- Rexinor, died and she married her uncle- Alkinoos
- Arete
- King of skeria. direct decendant to posiedon
- Alkinoos
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a. Alkinoos's tall son who challenges odysseus
b. very rude and "empty noodle", but he later apologizes and gives him a broadsword.` -
a. Laodamas
b. seareach - very vcalioent. Caucious at kirke's but is the ringleader on the crew.
- Eurylokhos
- the youngest of the crew who wasn't the best at all. He fell asleep on kirke's roof and was drunk and fell off. he asks for a proper burial while in underworld
- Elpenor
- blind seer who lives in the underworld. He is helpful and tells odysseus that he must do the "whinnowing fan" thing , and they can't eat odysseus's cattle,
- Teresais
- Odysseus's mother who he meets in the underworld. She says how penelope pines for him and laertes has isolated himself. also says she died of a broken heart
- Antikleia
- The women who are irrestable and sing on their island as a trap to lour people in. Odyssues is the only one ever to hear, the rest have wax or die
- Serienes
- 6 headed monster that eats 1 person for each head. lives on high mt. top.
- Skylla
- a whirlpool who sucks down the water and spits it up. Never return, odysseus hangs over a branch and waits for his raft.
- Kharybdis
- One of odysseus's swineherds. Very loyal to odysseus and helps him fight in the end
- Eumaios
- Odysseus's dog who after waiting 20 years dies happily just after he sees odysseus
- Argos
- He is aboard telemakhos's ship and is a seer. He informs penelope that odysseus is present and will kill the suitors.
- Theoklymenos
- The a. crier/herald and the b. ministrel. loyal to odysseus. a. was the one who told penelope odysseus was gone and was like a father to odysseus.
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a. Medon
b. Phemios - the cowherd who is loyal and helps odysseus
- Philiotios
- the goatherd i8s is disloyal and betrays odysseus by getting weapons for the suitors. He is tourtured to death
- Melanthios
- the goddess of love who betrayed her husband
- Aphordite
- the god of war who had an affair with Aphordite
- Ares
- the cripple god who caught his wife with another man and plants a trap and catches them in the act. Then he calls all the other gods to watch and laugh
- Hephaistos
- Odysseus's wife who tests people and who at first was weak. She even tests odysseus
- Penelope