Odyssey
22 important questions on Odyssey
What is the main difference between Homer's Illiad and the Odyssey?
So, Iliad = negative/fate, Odyssey = positive/humans choose their own path.
What are the themes of the Odyssey?
2. Travel/the Other (women, other cultures, monsters)
3. Longing for home/nostalgia
4. Loss and construction of identity through travel
5. Coming of age
6. Faithfulness and deceit
How does Odysseus change over the course of the Odyssey?
2. Then, he uses his cunning to survive the Trojan War.
3. Finally, after suffering a lot, he has become very versatile and strong.
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What are the themes found in the story of Polyphemus?
2. Curiosity leads to disaster.
3. Odysseus shows his cunning: wine, burning stake, sheep.
4. Ou-tis means "no man".
5. Odysseus shows his arrogance: real name, wrath of Poseidon.
How does Odysseus deal with Circe?
What themes can be found in the story of the Sirens?
- They seduce men in order to kill them.
- They lure men by suggesting they know everything about them/that they are famous.
- Odysseus shows his cunning by plugging his ears and tying himself to the mast.
What themes can be found in the story of Calypso?
- Her love for Odysseus makes her capture him and try to erase his memories of his family.
- Even though her island is a paradise, Odysseys home is more of a paradise to him.
- Hermes, god of travel, eventually makes Calypso release Odysseus.
What themes can be found in the story of the Phaeacians?
- Pure: Nausicaa is a beautiful, young princess who is not afraid of Odysseus.
- Lovers of luxury.
- Apologoi: Odysseus regains his identity by telling them who he is.
What can be said about Odysseus disguise of a beggar?
Who are Penelope's suitors?
What differences can be found between Odysseus in the Iliad and in the Odyssey?
- clever
- eloquent
- diplomat
- cruel
- cowardly
Odyssey:
- shrewd
- enduring
- curious
- courageous
How was Odysseus viewed in Antiquity?
How did Sophocles use Odysseus in his Philoctetes?
How did Euripides use Odysseus in his Iphigeneia?
Who was Porphyry and how did he use the character of Odysseus?
Why is Odysseus very popular nowadays?
- Because of the many tales in his epic.
- Because of his democratic nature.
- Because of the many possible allegorical explanations of his tales.
How was Odysseus treated in Dante's Divine Comedy?
Dante, however, is quite ambiguous about him, even though he belives that Odysseus lacks God as a leadsman in order to use his curiosity and intellect the right way.
What is the main point of Cavafy's Ithaka?
What is James Joyce's Ulysses about?
Father and son are looking for each other, Leopold and molly attempt to revive their former bond.
The book is about certain themes everyone has to deal with, like kinship and redemption, and has taken its inspiration from the Odyssey but in a modern form and another order.
Who is Nauticaa in Ulysses?
In Ulysses, she "saves" Bloom from his lack of sex in his life. In the Odyssee, she saves Odysseus because he is naked on the beach.
Her beauty is an illusion; in Ulysses, she is lame, whereas in the Odyssey, Athena has made her beautiful for a short while.
What are the themes of Derek Walcott's Omeros?
Set in the Carribean, the characters are cruelly brought to Santa Lucia thanks to slave trade. They are searching for the roots while trying to heal their wounds from what happened to them.
The character of Achilles travels in spirit to the underworld, which is Africa in this version, where he realizes he is ashamed of his homesickness and the pain of his homeland, and where an Odysseus-like figure tells him he is blasphemous for forgetting about his family and his past.
What is Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad about?
- Her loathing for Helen, who called away Odysseus and destroyed her life.
- Her uncertainty about the lying Odysseus she still kind of loves.
- The maids who complain about being raped by the suitors, with no one intervening.
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