Odessey study guide

Form
books:
1-4---telemachos is introduced and he attempts to rid himself of the suitors by calling a council. He travels to Pylos and meets nestor who talks about Odysseus's heroics at troy. Telemachos travels to Sparta and meets menalaus and helen who talk about the war and the murder of agamenon. Helen says that she was on greeces side the entire time.
5-8---Odysseus is with calypso, on ogygia, and is released on a ship which ends up ship-wrecked in the land of the phoecians where he meets nausicaa the daughter of alcinoos king of the phoeceans. He is treated very well by Alcinoos and Arete and feasts and plays games.
9-12---Odysseus's back story of sacking troy and Ilion. Then the encounter with the lotus-eaters and the cyclops. At the cyclops odysseus's tragic flaw shows as he is overly pridefull he gets cursed by Poseidan. He travels to Aiolos, god of wind, who treats him well and sets him with favorable wind towards home. However, his crew opens the wind bag and they are sent in a storm back to Aiolos. Aiolos is mad and sends them off. then they go to the land of the giants where they are attacked and only odysseus's ship escapes. They sail to circes island where the men are tricked into forgetting their quest to get home for a year. Odysseus then goes to hades to meet Teiresias the prophet who tells them to go to helios's island but not to eat the cattle. Odysseus returns to calypso who tells him about the moving rocks and the monsters. then odysseus takes his ship through the six headed monster , scylla. His boat sinks and he ends up on calypso's island.
13-16--- the story of how the phoecians send Odysseus to ithaca. Also how telemachos returned. 16 ends in telemachos and odysseus making a plan to wipe out the suitors.
17-20--- the story of how Odysseus returns to his house as a beggar and the fight with igor. also the mistreating of odysseus by the suitors.
21-24---the axe and bow games in odysseus's house. the slaughter of the suitors. the meeting of odysseus and penelope. how odysseus meets his father and the fight with the village also the resolution of the story.
Main problem: Suitors are in Odysseus's house and they won't leave.
Odysseus can't get home to stop them.
Exposition: the sacking of troy and Ilion as well as the lotus eaters.
Inciting Event: When Odysseus taunts the cyclops and gets Poseiden mad at him.
Rising
Climax-when odysseus slaughters everyone.
Resolution-When athena tells everyone to be at peace.
Agamenon
Achilles
Aigisthos
Helen
Menelaus
Aias (ajax)
Orestes
Nestor
Mentor
Nausica
Alcinoos-king of phoecians
Arete
Eumaios
Theoclmenos
Melanthios
Eurycleia
Amphinomos
Telemachos
Laertes
Penelope
Antinoos
Eurymachos
Lotus Eaters
Cyconians
Polyphemos
Scylla
Charybodis
Aiolos
Elphanor
Eurylochos
Tityo
Tantalos
Sisyphos


-Monsters
-Suitors
-Servants(loyal vs. disloyal)
-Troy/ Backstory
-People from travels (good hospitality vs. bad hospitality)


Themes:
Loyalty
Hospitality
Pride / Arrogance
Coming of age (telemachos)

Motifs:
Storytelling
Troy
Agamnenon/Clytaimaestra
Gods
Forgetting/Seductressas

Symbols:
Birds
Hades
The Wound

Odyssey-birds the wounds and hades

In the Odyssey birds, odysseus's wound, and hades all form extreme symbols.
first of all birds signify odysseus's return as well as conflict. In chapter 22 athena is a bird during the great fight in odysseus's house. also penelopeia sees an eagle eating her favorite geese that she looks at everyday. this symbolizes the end of an old time of her loneliness an the new time of odysseus's return.
Secondly, odysseus wound examplifies recognition, he used it to prove himself to his wife and father. also it is how his maid found him out.
Lastly, Hades, is samplifies a meeting of different themes of the novel as well as a point of culmination of the stories thoughts. when odysseus first visits hades he learnes about the people of his past and is exposed to the disloyalty that led to agamenons murder as well as the hospitality of the dead. the second time the story goes to hades is with the souls of the dead that odysseus killed. agamenon talks of betrayal as well as the loyalty that was shown to achilies. also the souls recap the return of odysseus and how he conquered his house.

melanthios
odysseus
eurycliea
swine herd
servants
telemachos
philoitios
ctesippos
Agelaos
eurymachos
theoclemenos
peirairios


Odysseus witnesses hge distruction of his home and gets many signs from zues and athena hat it is time to attack the suiters.

hospitality and welcomeing---philoitios is welcoming and the suitors continue to overstay their welcome.

book 19 Odyssey

Penelopeia
Melantho
Odysseus
Euryclia


Odysseus is found out by his old maid. he discusses odysseus with penelopeia and tells her his fake story. he says het odysseus will return soon.

Loyalty: Eurynome is loyal to odysseus through all the years as is penelopeia.

book 18 Odyssey

Iros
Odysseus
Telemachos
Antinoos
Amphinomos
Athena
Penelopeia
Eurynome
Eurymachos
Eurydamas
Peisandros Polyctorides
Women in Waiting
Melantho


Odysseus beats the town beggar iros in a fight. all he guests continue being rude. Penelopeia shows herself and fools the men.

Hospitality: Iros is not very hospitible to Odysseus. None of the guest show hospitlity o eiher iros or Odysseus. Melentho is very inhospitable to odysseus.

Odessey book 17

Odysseus-
Telemachos
Eurycleia
Penelopeia
Peiraios
Theoclymenos
Medon
Eumaios
Melanthios
Antinoos

Telemachos goes into town and visits his mother then he meets Peiraios to discuss his prphet passenger. Eumaios and Odysseus travel to odysseus's house and Odysseus's dog dies. Odysseus enters his own house and dines in it disguised as a beggar.

Hospitality- melanthios is inhospitable to odysseus and eumaios is hospitable when he gives odysseus his staff.

Odyssey book 13-16

odysseus and telemachos return home.
Intor to Swine Herder
swine herder vs maid who old him into slavery
Plan of Odysseus and Telemachos
Plans of the suitors.
Theoclymenos- from pylos banished from his land for killing someone.
-Telemachos, Odysseus, Eumaios
-Odysseus/telemachos
-Eurymachos
amphinomos
Antinoos

Penelopes reply to the suitors..........