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What is an archetype?
A very typical example of a certain person or thing.A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
Does Odysseus want people in Ithaca to know he is back? What does he ask Telemachus to do?
Odysseus wants to keep his presence a secret until the time is right. He asks his son to keep this as a secret
There were ___________suitors in the house of Odysseus
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Theoclymenus in The Odyssey plays a small but pivotal role in the play. Who is he?
He is an outcast fleeing prosecution.He meets Telemachus and asks to come aboard, and Telemachus welcomes and offers hospitality as he returns to Ithaca
__________ found out that he ate the cattle and he got very mad at _____________ and kicked him and his men off of the island. When they were kicked off of the island,__________decided to punish them too
Helios/Odyssues/Zeus
As Telemachus pulls away from the palace in his chariot, an eagle carrying a goose stolen from a pen swoops down beside him. How does Helen interpret this omen?
Helen interprets the incident as an omen that Odysseus is about to swoop down on his home and exact revenge on the suitors.
What does Odysseus do to avoid being killed by the sirens?
He has his men tie him to the mast so that he can not jump out of the boat and try to swim to the sirens.
What does the prophet Tiresius tell Odysseus to do to get home?
Controls his urges and his men. Odysseus's biggest obstacle is often himself.
In the Odyssey, ______________ most closely represents the archetypal "temptress?"
Circe. Odysseus is attracted to he, which delays his mission to get home for a long time.
Antinous is too prideful. What is his response to Penelope's anger?
He is not honest and promises not to kill her son even though he plans to do that anyway.
