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Name ________________________ The Odyssey Study Questions-ANSWERS Book One (p. 77-92): 1. What do you see as the demeanor of the Gods' towards men? They think men are silly. They bring most torment and enduring upon themselves. 2. What do you see as the demeanor of the Greeks towards cordiality? They play the job of hosts truly. The Greeks needed to open their house, be charitable, and share their food, and drink with their visitors. 3. How might you describe Telemachus now? What are his qualities? Telemachus is attempting to be a decent host and holds himself to a higher arrangement of standards.He is sickened by the practices of the admirers around his home. He thinks about the qualities and ethics of the Greeks. 4. What are his shortcomings? He has permitted the admirers to surpass his father’s home. 5. How does Athena intend to influence Telemachus? Athena acts like a man, Mentes (Odysseus’ companion) and enters Telemachus’ home. She reveals to Telemachus tha t Odysseus is as yet alive and that he should free the home of the admirers. 6. What sad homecoming story do we know about? How can it identify with the circumstance in Ithaca? The Achaeans’ Journey Home from Troy.It is the tale of Odysseus and his men. 7. Who is Phemius? The troubadour he recounts stories and engages. 8. How does Telemachus show quality with Penelope? He goes up against her when she is sobbing over Odysseus. â€Å"I hold the reins of intensity in this house† (p. 89) 9. How does this identify with the visit of Athena? Athena causes Telemachus to go up against his mom and the admirers something he would not have done all alone. Athena currently sends him on an excursion to discover his dad (Book Two). Book Two (p. 93-106): 1. What is the admirer's demeanor towards Penelope's hesitance to pick one of them?The admirers think Penelope is playing with them. They need Telemachus to confront his mom and either cause her to pick an admirer or show her out. 2. For what reason do they think it is their entitlement to â€Å"demand† that she pick? They want to request Penelope pick since she has been driving them on for more than three years. Penelope has been weaving a cover for Laertes. She told the admirers she would browse among them when she completed the cover, yet the men discovered she has been unweaving it around evening time. 3. What are the two distinct translations of the omen?The sign: two hawks (Zeus’ creature) fly over the sky (p. 98). Understanding 1: Halitherses says Zeus is stating Odysseus will get back in the blink of an eye (p. 98). Understanding 2: Eurymachus says they are simply flying creatures, however then offers his own prediction: Telemachus will be harmed and Halitherses will be fined (p. 99). 4. How does Telemachus react to the position set forward by Antinous? Antinous needs Telemachus to drive his mom to pick and says that Telemachus ought to overlook that he and his mom have been wronged and sim ply feast with the suitors.Telemachus declines on all records. Antinous says Telemachus will bite the dust on his excursion. (p. 102-103) *He allows his to nurture (nursemaid) realize he is leaving to go to Sparta, however doesn’t need to tell his mom till â€Å"ten or twelve days have passed/or she misses me herself and learns I’m gone† on the grounds that â€Å"she mustn’t damage her exquisite face with tears† (p. 105). BOOK THREE SUMMARY At Pylos, Telemachus and Mentor (Athena in camouflage) witness a great strict service where many bulls are relinquished to Poseidon, the divine force of the sea.Although Telemachus has little involvement out in the open speaking, Mentor gives him the support that he needs to move toward Nestor, the city’s lord, and get some information about Odysseus. Nestor, in any case, has no data about the Greek legend. He relates that after the fall of Troy a run in happened among Agamemnon and Menelaus, the two Gree k siblings who had driven the endeavor. Menelaus set sail for Greece quickly, while Agamemnon chose to hold up a day and keep giving up on the shores of Troy. Nestor went with Menelaus, while Odysseus remained with Agamemnon, and he has heard no updates on Odysseus.He says that he can just supplicate that Athena will give Telemachus the grace that she indicated Odysseus. He includes that he has heard that admirers have assumed control over the prince’s house in Ithaca and that he trusts that Telemachus will accomplish the fame with regards to his dad that Orestes, child of Agamemnon, won with regards to his dad. Telemachus then gets some information about Agamemnon’s destiny. Nestor clarifies that Agamemnon came back from Troy to find that Aegisthus, a base defeatist who stayed behind while the Greeks battled in Troy, had lured and hitched his significant other, Clytemnestra.With her endorsement, Aegisthus killed Agamemnon. He would have then taken over Agamemnonâ€⠄¢s realm had not Orestes, who was estranged abroad in Athens, returned and murdered Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. THIS IS THE STORY ZEUS WAS REFERRING TO IN BOOK 1. Nestor holds the mental fortitude of Orestes up for instance for Telemachus. He sends his own child Pisistratus along to go with Telemachus to Sparta, and the two set out via land the following day. Athena, who uncovers her godlikeness by shedding the type of Mentor and changing into a bird under the steady gaze of the whole court of Pylos, remains behind to secure Telemachus’s boat and its crew.BOOK FOUR SUMMARY In Sparta, the ruler and sovereign, Menelaus and Helen (â€Å"THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED 1000 SHIPS†-THE ONE THE TROJAN WAR WAS OVER), are commending the different relationships of their child and girl. They cheerfully welcome Pisistratus and Telemachus, the last of whom they before long perceive as the child of Odysseus in view of the unmistakable family likeness. As they all dining experience, the rul er and sovereign describe with despairing the numerous instances of Odysseus’s shrewd at Troy. Helen reviews how Odysseus dressed as a homeless person to penetrate the city’s walls.Menelaus recounts to the acclaimed story of the Trojan pony, Odysseus’s magnificent ploy that permitted the Greeks to sneak into Troy and butcher the Trojans. The next day, Menelaus relates his own arrival from Troy. He says that, abandoned in Egypt, he had to catch Proteus, the celestial Old Man of the Sea. Proteus disclosed to him the route back to Sparta and afterward educated him regarding the destinies of Agamemnon and Ajax, another Greek legend, who endure Troy just to die back in Greece. Proteus additionally disclosed to him updates on Odysseusâ€that he was as yet alive yet was detained by Calypso on her island.Buoyed by this report, Telemachus and Pisistratus come back to Pylos to head out for Ithaca. In the interim, the admirers at Odysseus’s house learn of Telemach us’s journey and get ready to snare him upon his arrival. The envoy Medon catches their arrangements and reports them to Penelope. She becomes troubled when she mirrors that she may before long lose her child notwithstanding her better half, however Athena sends an apparition as Penelope’s sister, Iphthime, to console her. Iphthime advises her not to stress, for the goddess will secure Telemachus. Book Five (p. 152-167): 1.How long does Odysseus remain on Calypso's island? He was with Calypso for a long time (she got him on his route home from Troy). 2. What is the wellspring of Calypso's control over Odysseus? She is an alluring goddess who is â€Å"lustrous† (p. 155, 157, 158). It is a sexual enticing force. 3. What do we realize of Calypso's affections for Odysseus? She adores Odysseus and spared him. She needs to keep him (p. 156). He doesn't need her â€Å"unwilling sweetheart nearby darling very willing†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (p. 157). 4. What will Calypso give Od ysseus on the off chance that he remains with her? Hermes originates from Zeus and requests Calypso discharge him.She offers Odysseus everlasting status in the event that he remains with her (p. 158-159). 5. Calypso requests that Odysseus contrast her and Penelope; does Odysseus react agreeably? â€Å"[Penelope] misses the mark concerning you [Calypso],/your excellence, height. She is mortal after all/and you, you never age or die†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (p. 159). Keep in mind, GODDESSES ARE ULTRA SENSITIVE. 6. How might you describe the creation of the pontoon, and the takeoff of Odysseus? Cut 20 trees and made his pontoon (even more a boat) with Calypso bringing him devices and giving him where things were. It took 4 days. On the fifth day, Calypso propelled him from her island.On the eighteenth day, Poseidon saw him â€Å"Outrageous! † (p. 161) and made confusion on the sea. 7. For how long does Odysseus swim? Three days (p. 164). 8. For what reason does Zeus, in spite of his prefe rring of Odysseus, permit Poseidon to make this excursion such a difficulty? Poseidon is a divine being and furious. Zeus won't permit him to murder Odysseus, yet take out his disappointment. 9. Ino-Leucothea, in the appearance of a seabird, gives him her cover. Why cloak? She felt awful for him, â€Å"Ah poor man,/for what reason is the divine force of quakes so bound and determined against you? †¦ Here, take this scarf [veil],/tie it around your waist†it is immortal† (p. 63). To spare him. He could tie it around himself without burdening himself. 10. For what reason does Odysseus return Ino's cover to the ocean? He returned it to her as she was in the ocean (he dreaded it from the start figuring it may be a stunt of another goddess) (p. 166). 11. Following two days of swimming, note a few periods of dynamic. Does Odysseus achieve his salvage all alone? â€Å"If I climb out, some large comber will raise me,/run me against that cliff†¦ If I continue swimming d own the coast, attempting to discover a seabeach †¦ another storm will grab me up and hail me back†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (p. 165).He required assistance from Athena and Ino. BOOK SIX SUMMARY That night, Athena shows up in a fantasy to the Phaeacian princess Nausicaa, camouflaged as her companion. She urges the youthful princess to go to the stream the following day to wash her garments so she will show up all the more bringing to the numerous men pursuing her. The following morning, Nausicaa goes to the stream, and keeping in mind that she and her handmaidens are stripped, getting it done as the