Odysseus has incurred the wrath of poseidon, god of the sea, by blinding his son polyphemus the cyclops. In the odyssey, what emotional characteristics does odysseus. Create a jeopardy game board using powerpoint focusing on the entire journey or a variety of episodes. If you find evidence that argues against the map produced here, please feel free to produce it. Check pages 1 50 of holt literature textbook 9th grade unit 11 the odyssey in the flip pdf version. The odyssey at a glance cliffsnotes study guides book.
In his 1949 book, the hero with a thousand faces, campbell outlines the monomyth, or archetypal journey, that all of these stories follow. In book iv of the odyssey, odysseus s curiosity takes him and his crew to polyphemus cave where they end up getting trapped. While his encounters were fictional there were no lotus eaters, sirens, or cyclopes in the ancient mediterranean his ports of call were real. The katabasis of virgils aeneid occurs in book 6 of the epic. With the consent of zeus, athena travels to ithaca to speak with telemachus. And now odysseus languishes on the lonely island of the nymph calypso, pining for home. Book 1 book 2 book 3 book 4 book 5 book 6 book 7 book 8 book 9 book 10 book 11 book 12 book book 14 book 15 book 16 book 17 book 18 book 19 book 20 book 21 book 22 book 23 book 24 themes all themes fate, the gods, and free will piety, customs, and justice cunning, disguise, and selfrestraint memory and grief glory and honor. The cicones are allies of the trojans and therefore enemies of odysseus. The odyssey by homer book 1 riverside local schools. In each book, there are multiple choices leading to multiple endings, depending on the choices made by the reader.
And now, withdrawing into caverns deep recesses, long in each others arms they lost themselves in love. Book 1 the story begins twenty years after odysseus left to fight in the trojan war, and ten years after he began his journey home to ithaca. The odyssey is one of two major ancient greek epic poems attributed to homer. In this adventure, odysseus describes his encounter with the. Before odysseus departs from the island a year later, circe informs him that in order to reach home he must journey to the land of the dead, hades, and consult the blind prophet tiresias. After the trojan war, all of the greek men that had lived through the war had returned home to their wives and families except for odysseus.
Odysseus spends books ix through xii recounting his journey from troy to where he was presently. The travels of odysseus have inspired writers for more than 2,000 years. About the selection theodysseyis a classic adventure story. The odyssey heros journey of odysseus storyboard that. He is being held captive on the island ogygia by the bewitching nymph 1. Athena inspires the prince but would aegisthus hardened heart give way. Odysseus builds a raft from palm trees and sets sail. With athenas help, odysseus reaches the phaeacians. Make a large map plotting odysseus journey and provide a narrative at each location. Odysseus and his men stop at an island where the lotus eaters live. Near the end of his journey, his raft breaks a part and he cries out to the gods. The olympians know she refers to poseidon, the ruler of the sea, who is off enjoying a banquet elsewhere. While odysseus and eumaeus are eating breakfast, telemachus arrives.
Ithaca, the evil suitors plot to kill telemachus when he returns. Most katabases take place in a supernatural underworld, such as hades or hell as in nekyia, the 11th book of the odyssey, which describes odysseus s descent to the underworld. Penelope will marry the man who strings odysseus bow and shoots an arrow through a line of small circles. The hero and whoever he is traveling with are tested. Try to produce your own rough map of odysseus journey. In the journey of odysseus, you face the same challenges as odysseus in homers odyssey, but you are in control of your destiny. All soft copy books of the odyssey book pdf acquired through.
With permission from zeus, the goddess athena, odysseus greatest immortal ally, appears in disguise and. While odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife penelope and his son telemachus stave off suitors vying for penelopes hand and ithacas throne long enough for odysseus to return. Read an overview of the entire poem or a line by line summary and analysis. Odysseus angered the sea god poseidon, who has been hindering odysseus s return to his home. He begins his story with odysseus trapped on the island of calypso, a nymph who wants to. While odysseus is in captivity, the other gods discuss. A goddess intervenes the poet introduces odysseus, a successful warrior who, after conquering the city of troy, has wandered the seas for many years. In the next hundred lines, she describes in detail each danger that he and his men will meet on their way home. Ten years after the fall of troy, the victorious greek hero odysseus has still not returned to his native ithaca. However, katabasis can also refer to a journey through other dystopic areas, like those odysseus encounters on his 10year journey back from troy to ithaca. The heros guidebook sale item humorously illustrated with over 40 cartoons by the author, this book takes readers through the stages of the heros journey using examples from books, films, and even video games. Odysseus is famous for his guile, or cunning, which makes him effective in both war and peace.
Odysseus decides to tell the men only of circes warnings about the sirens, whom they will. Poseidon spots odysseus, and raises seastorms to shipwreck him. How can he stand his ground against the will of all the gods at. The poet, homer, begins his epic by asking a muse1 to help him tell the story of odysseus. A summary of part x section1 in homers the odyssey. These first four books represent the education of telemachus, through both divine and mortal means, in absence of the influence of his missing father, odysseus. Holt literature textbook 9th grade unit 11 the odyssey was published by bknight on 20161027. The greeks have defeated the people of troy in a war. With a group, choose which characters from odysseus s past you want to reintroduce to him. The aeneid is the story of aeneas, as the odyssey is the story of odysseus. When he put out the eye of the giant cyclops, he provoked the wrath of the god of earthquakes. What does it suggest about human behavior and the tragic fate of human individuals.
Traces odysseus tenyear voyage home after the trojan war, a journey marked by a maneating cyclops. In the odyssey, what emotional characteristics does. What was odysseus behavior through his journey in book 10. The nymph calypso has held odysseus captive for seven years on the island ogygia, and the goddess athena has come before an assembly of the gods to plead for his release. An outline the first four books of the odyssey largely. Discussion questions on the odyssey norton edition. Both books tell the legend of the trojan horse, and both the trojan prince aeneas and the greek king odysseus have adventures throughout the eastern mediterranean. The odyssey is the story of the attempt of a greek soldier, odysseus, to return to his home following the trojan war. Download holt literature textbook 9th grade unit 11 the odyssey pdf for free. This map shows odysseus journey after he left troy.
The heros journey pdf this pdf identifies the stages of the heros journey present in the 1993 film the lion king. As you can see from the names of the modern nations, the bards who sang of odysseus sent him to very real places in the greek world. Odysseus, homer says, is famous for fighting in the trojan war and for surviving a difficult journey home from troy. In this project, you will learn the stages of the archetypal heros journey and decide for yourself if a story you are reading follows this cycle. Move over odysseus, here comes luke skywalker pdf this article examines the ways in which george lucas used the heros journey when creating star wars. An epic, the odyssey is composed of many different stories, or episodes, in which the hero, odysseus, faces all sorts of challenges. Holt literature textbook free html5 flip book maker. Odysseus is trapped on an island with the lovesick goddess calypso, while his wife and son suffer the transgressions of the suitors, noble. Odysseus, still dressed as a beggar, completes the task and is restored to his original state. Calypso, the sweet nymph odysseus has been held captive for many years by the goddess calypso on her island. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still read by contemporary audiences. In aeneas case, upon arrival in carthage, dido asked aeneas to share his story, so books ii and iii 1 were narrating the fall of troy and how aeneas and his people arrived at carthage. Teaching joseph campbells the heros journey creative. Heres where youll find analysis about the book as a whole, from the major themes and.
Holt literature textbook 9th grade free html5 flip book. After sacking the city of troy by masterfully gaining entrance to the city with a wooden trojan horse, his journey to return home to ithaca after the battle of troy takes ten years. While the men sleep, circe this detail from a 19thcentury takes odysseus aside to hear about the underworld and to offer advice. In spite of his intellect, odysseus cannot get home. Odysseus is in the banquet hail of alcinous lsinos. Parallels between virgils aeneid and homers iliad and. Unlike odysseus, aeneas seeks to enter the underworld, rather than bring the spirits of the dead to him through sacrifice. Now he wants only to return safely to his home and family. The odyssey is an epic journey, but the word journey must be broadly understood. Then decide who will play those characters, who will play odysseus, and who will play the shows host. Stage fourmentorhelper stage sevenapproach stage fivecrossing the threshold the hero encounters someone who guides them on what steps to take in their journey.
Part 1 and part 2 reading guide questions 40 pts part 1 and 2 comic strips 20 pts properties of a hero chart 10 pts timeline of events 5 personal journey timeline 25 pts unit test 80 pts vocabulary. Odysseus as a beggar and directs him to the hut of eumaeus, 1 his old and faithful swineherd. He tried to return his shipmates safely to their families, but they. Telemachus steals all the suitors weapons, and a final test is proposed.
A band of rowdy suitors, believing odysseus to be dead, has overrun his palace, courting his faithful though weakening wife, penelope, and going through his stock of food. Odysseus sets sail on a makeshift raft, but the sea god poseidon, whose wrath odysseus incurred earlier in his adventures by blinding poseidons son, the cyclops polyphemus, conjures up a storm. Odysseus s home in ithaca is overrun with suitors who are trying to win penelopeias hand. The adventures of odysseus introducing the book the cover l hold up the cover. Some scholars have translated this word as muchtravelled, wandering, manyturned.
Homer opens the odyssey with an invocation to the muse of epic poetry and asks for her. The odyssey ends as odysseus wins a contest to prove his identity, slaughters the. Learning modalities visualspatial learners encourage students to use the illustration on p. Start where you will, says the bard to the muse, and so the story begins in the middle of odysseus s long journey home from troy. As with the iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. Read books 8 carefully, and gather as much empircal data as you can. The epic focuses, of course, on odysseus s nostos return home or homeward voyage, a. He finds odysseus weeping on the beach, yearning for his family, and he orders calypso to release him. The god hermes, sent by zeus in book 1, arrives on ogygia, where calypso has trapped odysseus. We enter the story in medias res in the middle of things. Protected by a magic herb, odysseus demands that circe change his men back into human form.
Essay on the heros journey in homers the odyssey bartleby. May 19, 2011 partly a sequel to iliad, odyssey is the epic mythological journey of odysseus his roman name is ulysses. The odyssey relates the story of odysseuss journey after the trojan war. From the air she walked, taking the form of a tall woman, handsome and clever at her craft, and stood beyond the gate in plain sight of odysseus. Fifteen others lead to death, defeat, shame, or unending regret. Filled with horror, odysseus and his crew set sail.
Odysseus s journey page 3 l ask the children to look at page 3. Find more similar flip pdfs like holt literature textbook 9th grade unit 11 the odyssey. Question 1 i believe that odysseus was a bad leader, because multiple times in the story, he puts him and his followers in bad situations. The roman poet virgil wrote the aeneid in the late 1st century bce. Nov 01, 2009 the journey of odysseus presented by follow your fates is a reprisal of the ancient homeric odyssey as a chooseyourown adventure role playing game in which the reader is faced with the same choices odysseus faced. Both books tell the legend of the trojan horse, and both the trojan prince aeneas and the greek king odysseus have adventures. The extraordinary length of odysseus return trip, which should take a matter of weeks, is due to his many antagonists, including the god poseidon, the many mythical creatures he encounters, and odysseus often greedy and. While i myself go down to ithaca, rouse his son to a braver pitch, inspire his heart with courage. Book 1 what do you think is the symbolic meaning of the greek gods and goddesses. The series currently includes three titles, the wrath of achilles isbn 9780865167087, the journey of odysseus isbn 9780865167100, and the forthcoming exile of aeneas working tide, no isbn available yet.
Odysseus journey has been made difficult by poseidon, the seaking, whom odysseus offended. Odysseus is returning home and faces many challenges on the way. What went on in the house of odysseus athena appeals to zeus for permission to help odysseus reach home. He begins his journey with a visit to the cumaean sibyl a priestess of apollo and asks for her assistance to journey to the underworld and visit his father. Odysseus and his crew raid the cicones, robbing and killing them, until the ciconian army kills 72 of odysseus men and drives the rest out to sea. In book 5, when odysseus tells calypso he is leaving soon, one can see that calypso and odysseus were lovers, 5. Summary and analysis book 1 athena inspires the prince. Odysseus and the 12 stages of a heros journey by max martine. Feb 09, 2012 as professor mulligan noted, the first four books are often called the telemachy because telemachus goes on his own journey. In the first line of homers epic poem, odysseus is described as polytropos.
The adventures of odysseus the adventures of odysseus the story this is an ancient greek myth. In the odyssey, odysseus learns to get rid of his pride. Odysseus the cunning is the son of laertes and anticlea. Delayed by a storm for two days, odysseus and his remaining companions then continued their journey. Important archetypes like the hero, the mentor, the shadow, the ally, the trickster, and the threshold guardian appear as well. Odysseus, the reader is told, is the only greek survivor of the trojan war who has not yet returned home or died trying.
The journey of odysseus from troy to ithaca takes ten years the same amount of time that the trojan war itself lasted. Odysseus is a prisoner of a goddessfairy named calypso, who wants odysseus to be her husband. Rough years then lie between you and your homecoming, alone and old, the one survivor, all companions lost. Think about how odysseus might react to surprise visits from the characters you have chosen. Scylla and charybdis odysseus and his men return to circes island. What was odysseus behavior through his journey in book 10 of. Their princess, nausicaa, who has a crush on the handsome warrior, opens the palace to the stranger. Scylla and charybdis 23 in circe, odysseus has found a valuable ally. With the help of athena disguised as mentes, telemachos finds the courage to confront the suitors. See a complete list of the characters in the odyssey and indepth analyses of odysseus, telemachus, penelope, athena, calypso, and circe. Ultimate, canny survival depends upon the guile of the reader, as it did for odysseus.
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