Odyssey - THINGS TO KNOW

For a map of Odyssey go HERE

THEMES:
Be able to show three examples from the text to back up each of the following:
Loyalty
Hospitality
Pride/Arrogance
Coming of Age
Forgetting (or the evils of drugs and women)
MOTIFS:
Be able to explain the following and why they are used:
Storytelling
Back story of Troy
Agammenon/Clytaimnestra

Other Epic elements:
Starts “in the middle of things”; Odysseus’ tragic flaw; sports

SYMBOLS:
Be able to explain the following:
Birds (especially eagles); Hades; Odyssey’s Wound

GODS (know the following and what they do in the text)::
Athena; Poseidon; Hermes; Zeus; Helios
SEDUCTRESSES: (know the following and their purpose)
Helen; Calypso; Circe; Sirens


CHARACTERS:
Be able to give a description of the following and their roles in the story (perhaps what the symbolize or represent – and connect to a theme)
Agammenon
Amphinomos
Achilles
Telemachos
Helen
Laertes
Menelaus
Penelope
Aias (Ajax)
Antinoos
Orestes
Eurymachos
Nestor
Lotus Eaters
Mentor
Ciconians
Nausicaa
Polyphemos
Alcinoos
Scylla
Arete
Charybdis
Emaios
Aiolos
Theoclymenos
Elpenor
Melanthios
Teiresias
Arnaios
Eurylochos
Eurycleia
Cassandra
Tityo
Tantalus
Sisyphus