Book 4 How does Menelaus represent himself as responding to his wanderings on the way home to Sparta? Why does …

Book 3 How does Athena help Telemachus prepare to meet the old King Nestor? What is the purpose of this …

Book 2 How, according to Antinous, do the suitors view Penelope’s reluctance? Why do they think they are justified in …

What does the invocation (the first 12 lines) say the poem as a whole will emphasize? What first impression does …

Keep track of the Odyssey’s structure – make a diagram or chart of some kind that illustrates the main episodes …

What can you gather from the Odyssey about the way the Homeric Greeks lived their daily lives? About how they …

How do Homer’s gods think and behave? How do their actions and motivations differ from the conception of god in …

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? …