Read the passage from The Odyssey - Elpenor.By nightour ship ran onward toward the Ocean's bourne,the realm and region of the Men of Winter,hidden in mist and cloud. Never the flamingeye of Helios lights on those menat morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven;ruinous night being rove over those wretches.
In The Odyssey - Elpenor, the rituals that Odysseus performs on the island show that the ancient Greeks respected and honored
Read the paraphrase.Although I was sad to see my mother’s dead ghost, I didn’t speak with her because I needed to talk to a different ghost.
Read the passage from The Odyssey - Penelope.Ruses serve my turnto draw the time out—first a close-grained webI had the happy thought to set up weavingon my big loom in the hall. I said, that day:'Young men—my suitors, now my lord is deadlet me finish my weaving before I marry,or else my thread will have been spun in vain.It is a shroud I weave for Lord Laerteswhen cold Death comes to lay him on his bier.The country wives would hold me in dishonorif he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.'I reached their hearts that way, and they agreed.So every day I wove on the great loom,but every night by torchlight I unwove it;and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians.
Read the passage from The Odyssey - Penelope."My lady, never a man in the wide worldshould have a fault to find with you. Your namehas gone out under heaven like the sweethonor of some god-fearing king, who rulesin equity over the strong: his black lands bearboth wheat and barley, fruit trees laden bright,new lambs at lambing time—and the deep seagives great hauls of fish by his good strategy,his folk fare well.”
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Why nottake these cheeses, get them stowed, come back,throw open all the pens, and make a run for it?We'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We sayput out again on good salt water!'Ah,how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer—no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.
Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about Odysseus? Select two options.
Read the excerpt from Part 3 of The Odyssey by Homer.so let me tell [Circe’s] forecast: then we diewith our eyes open, if we are going to die,or know what death we baffle if we can. Sirens weaving a haunting song over the seawe are to shun, she said, and their green shoreall sweet with clover; yet she urged that Ialone should listen to their song. Thereforeyou are to tie me up, tight as a splint, erect along the mast, lashed to the mast,and if I shout and beg to be untied,take more turns of the rope to muffle me.’
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Then,his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind,reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.In the next land we found were Cyclopes, giants, louts, without a law to bless them.In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mysteryto the immortal gods, they neither plownor sow by hand, nor till the ground, though grain— wild wheat and barley—grows untended, andwine-grapes, in clusters, ripen in heaven's rain.Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting,no consultation or old tribal ways,but each one dwells in his own mountain cave dealing out rough justice to wife and child,indifferent to what the others do.
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.He saw the townlandsand learned the minds of many distant men,and weathered many bitter nights and daysin his deep heart at sea, while he fought onlyto save his life, to bring his shipmates home.
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.My heart beat high now at the chance of action,and drawing the sharp sword from my hip I wentalong his flank to stab him where the midriffholds the liver. I had touched the spotwhen sudden fear stayed me: if I killed him we perished there as well, for we could nevermove his ponderous doorway slab aside.So we were left to groan and wait for morning.
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.At this he gave a mighty sob and rumbled: 'Now comes the weird upon me, spoken of old.A wizard, grand and wondrous, lived here—Telemus,a son of Euryinus; great length of dayshe had in wizardry among the Cyclopes,and these things he foretold for time to come: my great eye lost, and at Odysseus' hands.Always I had in mind some giant, armed in giant force, would come against me here.But this, but you—small, pitiful and twiggy—you put me down with wine, you blinded me. Come back, Odysseus, and I'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you—his son I am, for he by his avowalfathered me, and if he will, he mayheal me of this black wound—he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.’
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.'AyeHe'll smash our timbers and our heads together!'I would not heed them in my glorying spirit, but let my anger flare and yelled:'Cyclops,if ever mortal man inquirehow you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes' son, whose home's on Ithaca!'
Read the excerpt from Part 3 of The Odyssey by Homer.I made straight for the ship, roused up the men to get aboard and cast off at the stern. They scrambled to their places by the rowlocksand all in line dipped oars in the gray sea.
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