What kinds of behavior are treated as contemptible in the Odyssey? Keep track of these qualities and the characters who …

What qualities does the text hold up as heroic? Keep track of heroic qualities and the episodes in which they …

How would you characterize the narrator, the fictive “Homer” whose voice we imagine as singing the verses of the Odyssey? …

How does Homer establish the significance of the story he is about to tell? How does he maintain interest in …

In book 17, Athena urges Odysseus to beg from all of the suitors to “test them, so we can tell …

In book 16, Odysseus and Telemachus finally meet. How does this scene, the long-awaited moment, work as drama? Why does …

In the 14th and 15th books, Odysseus and Eumaeus exchange life stories, with the disguised king lying (as he so …

When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca, he has an interesting exchange with his patroness goddess, Athena. What does this scene reveal …

Let’s also return to the question of Odysseus’ leadership style. Earlier we saw him make a near-fatal error with the …

While the narrator of the epic tells us about Calypso and her island, the rest of Odysseus’ adventures are related …