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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 absurd. They bring most torment and enduring upon themselves. 2. What do you see as the mentality of the Greeks towards neighborliness? They play the job of hosts genuinely. The Greeks needed to open their house, be generous, 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 nauseated 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 Telem achus that Odysseus is as yet alive and that he should free the home of the admirers. 6. What terrible homecoming story do we know about? How can it identify with the circumstance in Ithaca? The Achaeans’ Journey Home from Troy.It is the narrative of Odysseus and his men. 7. Who is Phemius? The poet he recounts stories and engages. 8. How does Telemachus show quality with Penelope? He stands up to 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 encourages Telemachus to face his mom and the admirers something he would not have done all alone. Athena presently sends him on an excursion to discover his dad (Book Two). Book Two (p. 93-106): 1. What is the admirer's disposition 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 look over among them when she completed the cover, yet the men discovered she has been unweaving it around evening time. 3. What are the two unique 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 no time (p. 98). Translation 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 compel his mom to pick and says that Telemachus ought to overlook that he and his mom have been wronged and simply feast with the suitors.Telemachus declines on all records. Antinous says Telemachus will kick the bucket on his excursion. (p. 102-103) *He allows his to nurture (nursemaid) realize he is leaving to go to Sparta, yet 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† in light of the fact that â€Å"she mustn’t damage her beautiful face with tears† (p. 105). BOOK THREE SUMMARY At Pylos, Telemachus and Mentor (Athena in mask) witness an amazing strict function 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, be that as it may, 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 Greek siblings who had driven the endeavor. Menelaus set sail for Greece promptly, 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 demonstrated 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 quitter who stayed behind while the Greeks battled in Troy, had allured and hitched his significant other, Clytemnestra.With her endorsement, Aegisthus killed Agamemnon. He would have then taken over Agamemn on’s realm had not Orestes, who was in a state of banishment in Athens, returned and murdered Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. THIS IS THE STORY ZEUS WAS REFERRING TO IN BOOK 1. Nestor holds the 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 eternality by shedding the type of Mentor and changing into a hawk under the watchful eye of the whole court of Pylos, remains behind to ensure Telemachus’s boat and its crew.BOOK FOUR SUMMARY In Sparta, the lord and sovereign, Menelaus and Helen (â€Å"THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED 1000 SHIPS†-THE ONE THE TROJAN WAR WAS OVER), are praising 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 as a result of the reasonable family likeness. As they all gala, the lord and sovereign relate with despairing the numerous instances of Odysseus’s sly at Troy. Helen reviews how Odysseus dressed as a poor person to penetrate the city’s walls.Menelaus recounts to the well known story of the Trojan pony, Odysseus’s awesome 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 perfect Old Man of the Sea. Proteus revealed to him the path back to Sparta and afterward educated him regarding the destinies of Agamemnon and Ajax, another Greek saint, who endure Troy just to die back in Greece. Proteus likewise revealed to him updates on Odysseusâ€that he was as yet alive however 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 Telemachus’s journey and plan to trap him upon his arrival. The envoy Medon catches their arrangements and reports them to Penelope. She becomes upset when she mirrors that she may before long lose her child notwithstanding her significant other, however Athena sends a ghost as Penelope’s sister, Iphthime, to console her. Iphthime advises her not to stress, for the goddess will ensure 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 close by darling very willing†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (p. 157). 4. What will Calypso give Odysseus on the off chance that h e 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 acceptably? â€Å"[Penelope] misses the mark concerning you [Calypso],/your magnificence, 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 portray the creation of the pontoon, and the flight of Odysseus? Cut 20 trees and made his pontoon (even more a boat) with Calypso bringing him instruments 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 bedlam on the sea. 7. For how long does Odysseus swim? Three days (p. 164). 8. For what reason does Zeus, in spite of his loving of Odysseus, permit Poseido n to make this excursion such a trial? Poseidon is a divine being and furious. Zeus won't permit him to slaughter Odysseus, however take out his dissatisfaction. 9. Ino-Leucothea, in the pretense of a seabird, gives him her cover. Why shroud? She felt terrible for him, â€Å"Ah poor man,/for what reason is the lord of quakes so never going to budge 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 shroud to the ocean? He returned it to her as she was in the ocean (he dreaded it from the outset 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 huge comber will raise me,/run me against that cliff†¦ If I continue swimming down the coast, attempting to discov er a seabeach †¦ another hurricane 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, masked as her companion. She urges the youthful princess to go to the waterway the following day to wash her garments so she will show up all the more getting to the numerous men seeking her. The following morning, Nausicaa goes to the waterway, and keeping in mind that she and her handmaidens are bare, taking care of business as the