The Odyssey Book 11 Review

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The Odyssey Book 11 Review

• A Gathering of Shades

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Odyssey Book 11 Review

• Method
• Look up and find answers in book
• Take notes in notebook
• Review when finished
• Take Quiz (61 questions) on books 10 and 11
• Mark in class.
• Read Book 11take notes, 30 facts

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• How does Odysseus describe the realm and region
  they next visit?
• What God never lights in this place?

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• Who is Erebos?
• What happens once Odysseus slashed the lamb and
  ewe, letting their black blood stream into the
  well-pit?
• What kind of souls begin to emerge?

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• What question does Odysseus pose to Elpenor?
• Who is Elpenor and how did he die?
• What request does Elpenor make of Odysseus?
• What must Odysseus implant upon the funeral mound
  in dedication to Elpenor?

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• What is the narrow strait Odysseus must take,
  according to Teiresias?
• To whom are all things seen, all speech known?
• What must Odysseus and his men not do, if they
  wish to make it home alive, according to
  Teiresias?
• Who does Teiresias refer to as insolent men?

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• What must Odysseus do, in order to make atonement
  to Lord Poseiden?
• How will Odysseus know he has traveled far enough
  inland?
• What are two ironies contained in this
  instruction?

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• What must a shade do before speaking to
  Odysseus?
• Why do you think Shades thirst for blood?
• Who is Antikleia? Who is her father?

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• How does Antikleia describe the condition of
  Laertes, Odysseuss father?
• Why or how did Antikleia die?
• What does Odysseus long to do with his mother,
  although he was unable?

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• Take Notes
• Who is Persephone?
• Daughter of Demeter and Zeus
• Queen of Underworld with Hades
• Referred to as the Icy Persephone

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• Take Notes
• Who is Demeter
• Goddess of the Harvest
• Mother of Persephone

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• Take Notes
• Story of Persephone
• Stolen by Hades
• Zeus sends Hermes to retrieve
• Hades gives Persephone a Pomegranate
• Persephone eats Pomegranate, obliges her to
  Underworld one third of year (Winter)
• Demeter, Goddess of Harvest, mourns during this
  time.

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• Take Notes
• Hades (Son of Kronos and Rhea)
• Brother to Poseiden and Zeus
• Hades is given Underworld
• Poseiden and Zeus split Upper-world
• Thief of Persephone

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• Who is Oidipous and Epikaste (Jokasta)?
• What is their great unwitting deed?
• What does Epikaste do to herself?
• In Sophocles telling of the story, Oidipous
  blinds himself with pins. Why do you think he
  does this?

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• Who is Khloris? Who married her?
• Who is their most famous son?
• Who is Pero?
• What does Nestor ask Melampous, the seer, to
  attempt, if he was to marry Pero?
• What occurs when Melampous attempts this action?

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• Who is Leda? To whom is she married?
• Who are her twin sons and what are their skills?
• In what way are the sons of Leda made daily
  immortal?

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• Take Notes
• Leda and the Swan
• Leda was also seduced by Zeus
• Zeus appears in the form of a beautiful swan
• She births Two eggs, each containing twins.
• From Tyndareus Kastor (tamer of horses),
  Polydeukes (best in boxing ring)
• From Zeus Helen (wife of Menelaos),
  Klytamnestra (Wife of Agamemnon)

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• Why does Alkinoos insist that Odysseus stay one
  more day in Skheria?
• What is Odysseuss response to this?

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• When Odysseus explains his conversation with
  Agamemnon in the Underworld, he explains how he
  was deceived.
• In what condition was his body left upon his
  death?
• Who is Kassandra, and who kills her?

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• What advice does Agamemnon give to Odysseus in
  line 515?
• What advice does Agamemnon give to Odysseus to
  stow away and ponder?
• What does Agamemnon say about the day of
  faithful wives?

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• Who is the son of Peleus?
• Who is Neoptolemos?
• What are the skills of Neoptolemos?
• How did Neoptolemos behave inside the Trojan
  Horse?

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• Why is Aias (Ajax) angry with Odysseus?
• How is he described by Odysseus?
• Notes
• Battled Hector to a Stalemate in Troy injured
  Hektor
• After losing Akhilleuss war gear to Odysseus
  (who was more eloquent), he began slaughtering
  cattle, believing they were Odysseus
• Later he killed himself. In Homer, he drowns
  because of Poseiden breaking to Promontory.

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• Who is Tityos? How is he punished in the
  Underworld?
• Notes
• Tricked Gods into eating Human Flesh
• Cut up his Son, Pelops, boiling him in a stew
• Demeter eats his shoulder, upset about Persephone
• Zeus has him killed and punished

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• Who is Sisyphos? What is his punishment?
• Notes
• Known as the craftiest of men.
• Some say his is father of Odysseus
• Would kill travelers in violation of hospitality
  rules
• He betrayed Zeus, telling others that Zeus raped
  Aegina, the daughter of a river God
• Later tricked Death (Thanatos), when he was to be
  chained in Underworld, asked Thanatos to show how
  chains worked.

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• We are told that Odysseus escapes/flees the
  underworld, once he suspects Persephone had
  brought from darker hell some saurian deaths
  head.
• What is a saurian?

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