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the book we are reading this month: The Odyssey

Homework for July 5, 2017

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level 1

Read the following excerpt from the book of the month: the Odyssey

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.

The narrator of the Odyssey invokes the Muse, asking for inspiration as he prepares to tell the story of Odysseus. The story begins ten years after the end of the Trojan War, the subject of the Iliad. All of the Greek heroes except Odysseus have returned home. Odysseus languishes on the remote island Ogygia with the goddess Calypso, who has fallen in love with him and refuses to let him leave. Meanwhile, a mob of suitors is devouring his estate in Ithaca and courting his wife, Penelope, in hopes of taking over his kingdom. His son, Telemachus, an infant when Odysseus left but now a young man, is helpless to stop them. He has resigned himself to the likelihood that his father is dead.

Level 1:

1.       The narrator invokes the muse for inspiration or fear?____ ____________________

2.       When does the story begin? _______________________________________________________

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Level 2:

Where does Odysseus languish? _________________________________________________________

Why is Calypso refusing to let Odysseus leave? ____________________________________________

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Level 3 answer questions from level 1& 2 also

What are the mob of suitors hoping to do? ________________________________________________

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