ODYSSEY REVIEW GUIDE:
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

ODYSSEY: FINAL

1) How does the Odyssey start “in the middle of things”?

2) What is Odysseus’ tragic flaw and how is it shown?

3) Explain the motif of Agammenon and Clytaimnestra.  What theme does it reinforce?

4) Who are seductresses in the Odyssey and what purpose do they serve?

5) Summarizes Books 1-4.  What story do they tell?

6) Summarize Books 5-8.  What story do they tell?

7) Summarize Books 20-24.  What story do they tell?

8) Discuss the theme of Loyalty and give three detailed examples from the book.

9) Discuss the theme of Hospitality and give three detailed examples from the book.

10) Discuss the back-story of Troy, where it appears and what it represents.

11) Discuss the symbol of Hades.  What does it represent?  Who is there?  What do they say or do there?

12) Discuss the symbol of birds.  What does it represent?  Give three examples from the book?

The following questions are worth 2 point each.  

Give a description of the following characters and their roles in the story.

13) Achilles

14) Antinoos

15) Emurymachos

16) Nausicaa

17) Scylla

18) Charybdis

19) Aiolos

20) Laertes

21) Orestes

22) Nestor