1.With crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden.
2.“Strange man…This is no pride on my part nor scorn for you.”
3.She told Eurycleia to make Odysseus’s bed, and put it outside of the bedchamber.
4.Made the bedpost out of silvery leaves and branches. Had silver, gold, and ivory on it. A pliant web of oxhide thongs dyed crimson. Also a bed that stretched in between.
5.She was trying to arm herself against imposters that may come, and try to say that they were him.
6.In his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer.
7.It’s in #4. Provide four details about Odysseus and Penelope’s bed.
Monday, February 23, 2009
The Odyssey. Odysseus's Revenge Questions
1.He is asking the god of Troy, Apollo, to help him with his shot.
2.It was embossed, two- handled, and golden
3.Odysseus hit him with an arrow right under his chin.
4.They scream stuff like ”That was your last shot” and “Your own throat will be slit for this.” “Our finest lad is down. You killed the best on Ithaca. Buzzards will tear your eyes out!”
5.By offering Odysseus gold and silver to warm his heart.
6.He doesn’t accept it and says “There will be killing till the score is paid.”
7.He was worried someone would come up behind him and cut him down.
8.1523 and 1524. While he had arrows he aimed and shot, and every shot brought down one of his huddling enemies.
9.Yes because he tried to kill his son. That would make me pretty upset.
2.It was embossed, two- handled, and golden
3.Odysseus hit him with an arrow right under his chin.
4.They scream stuff like ”That was your last shot” and “Your own throat will be slit for this.” “Our finest lad is down. You killed the best on Ithaca. Buzzards will tear your eyes out!”
5.By offering Odysseus gold and silver to warm his heart.
6.He doesn’t accept it and says “There will be killing till the score is paid.”
7.He was worried someone would come up behind him and cut him down.
8.1523 and 1524. While he had arrows he aimed and shot, and every shot brought down one of his huddling enemies.
9.Yes because he tried to kill his son. That would make me pretty upset.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Odyssey Sirens Questions
The Sirens
1. He tells his crew to tie him up as tight as a splint, and even when he ask his crew to untie him, they should tighten the rope.
2. By only letting Odysseus listen to the song and not them, so they will not be tempted by it.
3. He yells for his men to untie him.
1. He tells his crew to tie him up as tight as a splint, and even when he ask his crew to untie him, they should tighten the rope.
2. By only letting Odysseus listen to the song and not them, so they will not be tempted by it.
3. He yells for his men to untie him.
The Odyssey Cyclops Questions
Cyclops
1.No. Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting, no consolation or tribal ways, but each one dwells in his own mountain cave dealing out rough justice to wife and child.
2. He wished to see the cave man.
3. They were destroyed by the rocks at lands end. Because he didn't want him to go and destroy the ship
4. Gaping and crushing like a mountain lion.
5. He remembers the slab that is blocking their way out of the cave is massive. that could only be moved by the cyclops.
6. Get the cyclops drunk, Drove a spike into his eye, and rode away on a rams chest.
7 . Or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub.
8. Nobody. When the other cyclopses heard his crying, they asked what was wrong. He said Nohbody did this. Making them think no one was doing it to him.
9. He started to taunt and tease the cyclops by yelling stuff at him while pulling off of the shore.
10. To punish Odysseus for what he did. Poseidon.
1.No. Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting, no consolation or tribal ways, but each one dwells in his own mountain cave dealing out rough justice to wife and child.
2. He wished to see the cave man.
3. They were destroyed by the rocks at lands end. Because he didn't want him to go and destroy the ship
4. Gaping and crushing like a mountain lion.
5. He remembers the slab that is blocking their way out of the cave is massive. that could only be moved by the cyclops.
6. Get the cyclops drunk, Drove a spike into his eye, and rode away on a rams chest.
7 . Or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub.
8. Nobody. When the other cyclopses heard his crying, they asked what was wrong. He said Nohbody did this. Making them think no one was doing it to him.
9. He started to taunt and tease the cyclops by yelling stuff at him while pulling off of the shore.
10. To punish Odysseus for what he did. Poseidon.
Monday, February 2, 2009
The Iliad Book 24 Questions
Book 24.
1. He wept.
2. He went to his knees and kissed Achilles hands.
3. He ask him to let Hector's body free to him to take back to give a funeral for him.
4. "I will be as you ask, venerable king."
5. 12 days.
6. "For Achilles promised us that he would do no harm until the twelth day shall dawn"
7. "On the next day dawn showed he rosy fingers."
8. Very brave for coming into the camp.
1. He wept.
2. He went to his knees and kissed Achilles hands.
3. He ask him to let Hector's body free to him to take back to give a funeral for him.
4. "I will be as you ask, venerable king."
5. 12 days.
6. "For Achilles promised us that he would do no harm until the twelth day shall dawn"
7. "On the next day dawn showed he rosy fingers."
8. Very brave for coming into the camp.
The Iliad Book 22 Questions
Book 22.
1. If he should just give up and give in to Achilles
2. Hector took off running under the walls of Troy.
3. 3
4. to do the proper respects to their bodies when their dead.
5. Of all the people Hector slained and he's has mourned for them.
6. He strips Hector to his chariot and drags him on the ground going back to camp.
1. If he should just give up and give in to Achilles
2. Hector took off running under the walls of Troy.
3. 3
4. to do the proper respects to their bodies when their dead.
5. Of all the people Hector slained and he's has mourned for them.
6. He strips Hector to his chariot and drags him on the ground going back to camp.
The Iliad Book 20 Questions.
Book 20
1. To tell themm if they want to they can pick sides and help out the trojans or the achians
2. Aphrodite.
3. The god's put a cloud of mist around Hector. Making it where Achilles couldn't strike him.
4. as a devouring conflagration
1. To tell themm if they want to they can pick sides and help out the trojans or the achians
2. Aphrodite.
3. The god's put a cloud of mist around Hector. Making it where Achilles couldn't strike him.
4. as a devouring conflagration
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