do now: 3/28 take out your notes sheet on epic poetry (called homer and the epic poem)
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Do Now: 3/28
Take out your notes sheet on epic poetry (called HOMER AND THE EPIC
POEM)
1. leaves Troy after the war
2. Ismarus
• ODYSSEUS & CREW SACK THE CITY OF ISMARUS; REMAIN ON THE ISLAND TO DRINK WINE AND SLAUGHTER ANIMALS
• SIX MEN AT ARMS WERE KILLED FROM EACH SHIP BEFORE THEY ESCAPE
3. sails to the island of the Lotus (Lotos) Eaters
• 3 OF ODYSSEUS’ MEN TASTE THE LOTUS; THEY REFUSE TO LEAVE; ODYSSEUS MUST FORCE THEM BACK TO THE SHIPS.
4.Reach the Island of the Cyclopes (Kyklopes)
• LOSES 6 OF HIS CREW DUE TO “HUBRIS” (his own arrogance)
5. ISLAND OF AEOLUS (wind god)
• -ALMOST HOME, IS SWEPT BACK TO SEA DUE TO MEN’S GREED
• -KING AEOLUS BANISHES THEM FROM KINGDOM
6. LAND OF THE LAESTRYGONIANS
• THE CANNIBALS SMASH HIS SHIPS WITH BOULDERS; ONLY ODYSSEUS’ SHIP IS ABLE TO ESCAPE
7. AEAEA (CIRCE’S/Kirke ISLAND)
• STAY FOR ONE YEAR• ODYSSEUS
BEWITCHED; MEN WANT TO RETURN HOME
8. THE UNDERWORLD (Hades)
• MEETS TIRESIAS the prophet; HIS MOTHER; AGAMEMNON; ACHILLES; ETC.
9. AEAEA (CIRCE’S ISLAND)
• MUST BURY ELPENOR• Reiterates the Prophesy/warning from Tiresias
10,11,12. The Sirens (sea nymphs), Schylla and Charibdis (sea monsters)
13. Helios Island (sun god)
• Rest of Odysseus men eat the cattle of the sun god and are killed
• Odysseus all alone
14. Ogygia- Calypso’s Island
15. Phaecia-mariners
• Here is where Odysseus begins the tale of how he left Troy
• Last stop before home
16. Home to Ithaca
• Seems strange and foreign to Odysseus because he has been gone so long and the suitors have pillaged many things