The+Odyssey+in+class+discussion

2／24／12 Hermes of Kyllene called the souls of the suitors to come forward, and he has a beautiful golden staff in his hands.He confused the eyes of those mortals whose eyes he would confuse, or wakes up the sleepers again. Moving them on with this, he walked first and they suitors followed him, who are full of fears. And as when the bats in the cave of death, frightening and moving very quickly, many bats in the cave and scared one of the suitors, he fell out of.But then even their hearts were full of dark, they still got together and went on. Hermes led them down moldering pathways. They passed the Ocean stream, the White Rock, and the gates of Helios the Sun, and the country of dreams, and also got to the meadow of asphodel.This place is where the souls live, picture of dead men.

1/27/12 Themes - festival(feasting, dancing, hecatombs, drinking, music) Wedding,welcoming a guest, sport, contests. - Travel to different places - Telemachs- searching for father-son -"Oedipal passions" -disguise, frust -Myths( real suitors, real talks)

Fairy Tales The story which is a fairy tales means it full of magical and imagination things. For example, "Peter Pen" a story that a boy lived in an dream island which children will not grow up. One day, he took a girl whose name is Wendy to the dream island. Wendy was very happy to be there and she made lots of friend and tell them some stories every night. But the hubris captain- Hook was a nightmare to them. He always wanted to catch Peter for revenge because in the last fight, he lost and his arm was eaten by a crocodile.

Books V and VI Aventure -release from pieria -raft destroyed by Poseidon -oracle fulfilled (fate) -hopelessness despair -ruined raft-his only priced possession constellation- the star- he followed it and the Ursa major always on his left after long adventure, he tried and slept.

Romance -Princess- Nansicaa -Washing clothes -playing by the sea - father- Alkinoos- wants her to marry -she is lazy-repatation

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What is the significance of storytelling? Speaking to express someone's thought by speaking to each other. Story-telling is to tell other people a story or a myth. One of the biggest importance of speaking and story-telling is to convey the religions or the cultures. Without story-teller or the speak, we probably will lose a period of myths or the cultures. For example, in the book" The odyssey of homer" if it's not Athene came to Telemachos and told him about his father did not die. He would always believe the death of his father. All like the Nestor, he told Telemachos about the story Agamennon and Aigisthos. Agamennon came back and killed all the suitors. It's the same situation of Telemachos. So when he told a story, he actually was giving Telemachos courage. Or it also can be a foreshadowing.

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Choose a character and explain his/her role. I choose Telemachos. He used to be a man with less confidence. But after he talked to Athene. He became more confident. He stood up and shouted and show his angry to those suitors and he refused them about letting his mother marry to one of the suitors. For example. On Page42, line 130. " I cannot thrust the mother who bore me, who raised me, out of the house against her will."

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What are the roles of gods? Sometimes, between gods and gods will have discussion about should they punishments to some people. Now here is Odyssey. For example, on page28, line 60. " Did not Odysseus do your grace by the ships of the Argives, making sacrifice in wide Troy? Why, Zeus, are you now so harsh with him?"But I think Zeus did not too harsh with Odysseus, it just because he is the leader of his team and his partners devoured the oxen that supposed to give Gods. So the role of gods is that they do not want anyone do something that disrespect to them.