Book Summaries Flashcards
What happens in book 1?
See Zeus and athena talking about O
Suitors living in palace
Telemachus meets with Athena (in disguise)
Penelope weaving shroud
What happened in book 2?
T stands up to suitors and tells them to go
More weaving of shroud by P
Eagle omen (O is coming home)
Athena summons men and ship to send T out to find out about O
What happens in book 3?
T arrives in pelos to find Nestor
Story of Agamemnon - Clytemnestra to contrast Penelope
Nestor sends his son with T to Sparta to find Menelaus
What happens in book 4?
In Sparta - see menalaus and Helen
T tells them about suitors
Menelaus tells him he knows O is stranded on ogygia
The suitors plot to kill T on his return
Athena sends phantom of Ps sister to tell her athena is watching over them all
What happens in book 5?
Athena asks Zeus for more help
He tells her to keep looking after T
Sends Hermes to free Odysseus
We first meet odyssey
He sails out of ogygia and Poseidon breaks his ship
Athena and sea nymph deliver him to Phaeacian island
What happens in book 6?
Athena lures nausicaa to the beach to meet Odysseus
Nausicaa agrees to help him
What happens in book 7?
Odyssey calls on athena - she cloaks him in an obscuring mist
He meets arête and asks her for help
Alcindor’s wants O to marry nausicaa
They agree to provide him a ship
What happens in book 8?
There is a feast for Os honour
The bard sings of Odysseus and O cries
Alcinuous starts an athletic competition
O wasnt gonna compete but then did
He crushes everyone (with Athena’s help)
Another song of O
He reveals himself
What happens in book 9?
Odysseus recounting his journey
Troy - sacking the cicones - lotus eaters - Polyphemus -
What happens in book 10?
More Odysseus story
Aeolius/wind - laestregonian giants - circes island
What happens in book 11?
Odysseus in underworld - warned to never eat helios cattle
Back in present asks to go home - Phaeacians agree if he tells them more of his joinery
What happens in book 12?
Back on circes island to give elpanor a burial
Circe tells him of sirens
Has to get past Scylla and Charybdis
Land on helios island
They eat the cattle while O asleep
Helios demands punishment
All his crew die
He lands on calypsos island
What happens in book 13?
Back in the present
Poseidon is mad Odysseus is getting help home
Zeus tells him to take it out on Phaeacians
What happens in book 14?
O is home
Athena appears to him as a shepherd
He asks where’s she’s been all this time
She tells him what happened at home
They go to eumaus
Story of cloak
What happens in book 15
Back to T
Athena warns him of suitors plan to kill him
Says to go to eumaus hut
Eagle carrying goose omen