odyssey thematic scholarship

Question 1

Graziozi on Women

Answer 1

all women and female monsters pose a threat to OD nostos

Question 2

Hauser on Women

Answer 2

women are foils to men but are interesting characters in their own right

Question 3

Hall on Xenia and suitors

Answer 3

breaking xenia is their fundemental crime and so they punishment is just

Question 4

Hall on Xenia societally

Answer 4

civilisation can be judged by how people follow xenia

Question 5

West on Xenia

Answer 5

xenia is an obligation integral to society

Question 6

Graziozi on Nostos

Answer 6

above all, odysseus interest is returning to Ithaca

Question 7

Nagy on Nostos and Kleos

Answer 7

OD Kleos is the poem of his return home being immortalised through poetry

Question 8

Jones on the Homeric Hero Odysseus

Answer 8

Loyal huband, wanderer, selfish anti-hero

Question 9

Jenkyns on plot complexity

Answer 9

made complex by the flashbacks

Question 10

hauser on disguise and plot

Answer 10

tension is made through near recognitions and disguise drives the plot forward

Question 11

graziiozi on justice

Answer 11

justice is NOT delivered fairly within the odyssey

Question 12

jenkyns on justice

Answer 12

odyssey has a moral sense, the good and happily and the bad unhappily