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Classics Chapter 22: Odyssey Flashcards

1
Q

In what way is the Odyssey 2nd?

A

of homer’s poems thematically and chronologically

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2
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When was the Odyssey written down?

A

750BC

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3
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What is the point of theIliad?

A

what it means to be a mortal - limitations, meaning

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4
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What is the point of the Odyssey?

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“what it means to be an individual mortal”
what it means to be “you” - what you want on your obituary

charachter, achievemens, home, family

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5
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How long does it take for Odysseus to come home?

A

10 years

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6
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How long is Odysseus away from his home?

A

20 years

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7
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What is Odysseus’ home?

A

Ithaca

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8
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How many rude suitors are there?

A

108

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9
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How did the suitors violate xenia

A

eat his food, sleep with slave girls

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10
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How many books are in the Iliad? Odyssey?

A

24, 24

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11
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How is the Odyssey different from Iliad in terms of structure?

A

Odyssey has thematic unts of 4 books

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12
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What are books 1-4 about?

A

Telemachus

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13
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Telemacus

A

son of Odysseus

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14
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Who nudges Telemacus to go find himself/a solution?

A

Athena

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15
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Where does Telemacus go to reach his goal? What is there?

A

to Pylos and Sparta to find Nestor and Menelaus

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16
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What gives Telemacus self- confidence above all?

A

his striking resemblance to his father

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17
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What does T learn from Nestor?

A

what order looks like

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18
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What does T learn from Sparta?

A

what his father is like/looks like

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19
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What does Telemachus get in the end ? What doesn’t he?

A

confidence - leadership skills

can’t rid suitors without father

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20
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What are books 5-8 about?

A

final stage of journey home - Calypso

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21
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Calypso is a __

A

sea nymph, goddess

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22
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How long is Odysseus with Calypso?

A

7 years

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23
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What does Calypso offer Odysseus?

A

immmortality

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24
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What does “calypso” mean why?

A

consealer

Odysseus’s identity is being forgotten by the rest of the world

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25
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How does Od get away from calpyso?

A

Athena asks zeus
sends hermes to tell calpyso to go while poseidon away
od builds raft

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26
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How does Odysseus get to Phaeacians?

A

poseidon comes back from trip and blasts with storms

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27
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Who rescues and clothes Odysseus?

A

Nausicaa

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28
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Who else knows about the Od/ Nausicaa encounter?

A

Quen Arate (sp) her mom

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29
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Demodocus

A

blind singer who entertains Odysseus

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30
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stories told to OD and the Phaeacians

A

stories:

  • Heph catch ares and aphro
  • trojan horse story
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31
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What does Demodocus do to Odysseus?

A

makes him weep for his misfortunes in the accurate storysong

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32
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What happens in books 9-12

A

Od tells Phaeacians his stories:

33
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First place OD goes to after troy

what happens?

A

Cicones
they sack and loot the place - but men don’t want to leave vs. OD warning
they lose 6 men per ship

34
Q

What is the 2nd place OD goes to after troy?

what happens?

A

land of Lotus Eaters - mellow, don’t want to do anything but eat more lotus

he orders them back

35
Q

Where does Odysseus and his men go after Lotus land?

A

island of the Cyclopes

36
Q

What does Polyphemus do to mark himself as an “outsider”

A

drink milk, not wine

eat people RAW

37
Q

What do Odysseus’ men do when they find Poluphemus? What happens to them?

A

linger to learn where they are, what they can get
he bashes to mens brains in and eat bodies raw
traps men in cave with boulder

38
Q

When does OD formulate his plan to be freed from the cave?

A

when Cyclopes tends to his livestock

39
Q

What is OD’s plan to get away from Polyphemus?

A
  • get Polyphemus drunk with the wine he brought (and 2 bodies as appetizers…oops)
  • tell him his name is Nobody
  • sharpen huge stake, heat it, drive in eye
  • hide under sheep bellies
40
Q

How does Polyphemus get revenge on Odysseus?

A

Polyphemus gets hsi dad Poseidon’s wrath (a hard time) because Odysseus brags

41
Q

What is the 4th place Od goes to ?

A

island of Aeolus,

42
Q

who is Aeolus? what does he do?

A

wind god; buts bad winds in bag to let OD sail home on good winds

43
Q

What stops OD’s men from coming home to ithaca even though it is finally in sight?

A

men are curious - want to see OD’s treasure from Aeolus’ release BAD wind an are pushed back to him

44
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what is the 5th place OD goes to?

A

land of Laestrygonians

45
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Laestrygonians - what are they? what do they do?

A

cannibalistic giants - eat all of men that come with od (don’t stay on ship)

46
Q

What is the 6th placae OD goes do?

A

Circe

47
Q

Circe - who is it, what does she do?

A

witch daughter of sun god

turns half of OD’s men to animals

48
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How does OD get out of Circe predicament?

A

Hermes makes him resist her spells
bed for a year
Hermes persuades them to turn back to humans, OD perseudes her to promise not to hurt them

49
Q

What does Circe give OD?

A

sex for a year
information - OD must to to Underworld to find tiresias to learn way home, other info (sirens?, don’t eat Helius’ cattle)

50
Q

What does OD get from underworld?

A

directions hime

anticlea - your purpose is to go home

51
Q

What is dangerous aobut the Sirens?

A

beautiful song - just want to listen

52
Q

How do od and his men pass the sirens?

A

men have wax in their ears

OD is tied to mast

53
Q

Charybdis

A

ship-sucking whirlpool

54
Q

Scylla

A

monster with 6 heads

55
Q

What does OD choose - Scylla or Charybdis?

A

scylla - so loses 6 men instead of full ship

56
Q

what happens at the island of Helius?

A

Odysseus’ men get hungry while trapped by winds
they eat Helius’ cattle while OD sleeps

zeus thunders the ship and rest of Odysseus’ men

Od winds up at island of Calypso

57
Q

How long is Odysseus’ homecoming adventures at sea?

A

3 years

58
Q

How does OD get to Ithaca?

A

he woos the Phaeacians, so they bring him there

59
Q

What does OD do with the Phaecians’ treasure? how did he get it?

A

puts in cave

by stories

60
Q

Eumaeus

A

OD’s old swineherd

offers xenia, shows that people are still loyal to him, miss him

61
Q

What happens in book 13-16?

A

land in ithaca
visit Eumaeus
Telemachus, forms plan with him

62
Q

What happens in book 17-20?

A

OD comes to palace as a beggar

63
Q

Argus

A

Od’s dog - not taken care of, only one to recog him at first sight - dies of heart attack

64
Q

Antinous

A

a lead suitor in the Odyssey

65
Q

Eurymachus

A

a lead suitor in the Odyssey

66
Q

Euryclea

A

Od’s old nanny

recognizes OD while bathing him from scar on his leg from boar hunt

67
Q

When was Penelope supposed to remarry?

A

when she finished weavng the shroud for Laertes

she inwound it every night

68
Q

what does Penelope show beggar Odysseus in her night interview?

A

she is chaste
she got stuff from suitors
she kept house as well as she could
she’ll have a test for them

69
Q

What is Penelope’s challenge? how successful are the challengers?

A

whoever can string bow and shoot arrow through holes of 12 axe heads lined in row

they can’t string Ods bow

70
Q

What are books 21-24 about?

A

showdown vs. OD and suitors

71
Q

How is OD chosen to marry Penelope?

A

Telemachus mocks the suitors - let beggar have a turn

72
Q

How do Od’s helpers help him kill the 108 suitors?

A

Telemachus gets him the bow
Eumaeus bolts the doors
Euryclea detains slave staff

73
Q

How many maids does Euryclea single otu? why? for what?

A

12 - they liked sex with suitors she says - to clean up the slaughter house

74
Q

How does penelope make sure beggar = Od?

A

marriage bed - living tree as 1 leg, he and his swineman made it

75
Q

Tiresias’ prophecy

A

must go inland for ____

76
Q

athena holds dawn so

A

penelope and Od can talk

77
Q

What does agamemnon do in the underworld?

A

praise agamemnon when the souls of the 108 suitors arrive

78
Q

Laertes

A

Odysseus’ father

79
Q

What does Athena help Odysseus, son, and father with?

A

suitors’ kinsmen revenge

then gets zeus to support peace - lighting bolt stop s fight

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