Weeks 8-11

Mon 10/9--(S): Read and take notes on The Odyssey, Book 1

Tu 10/17, W 10/18--(L):Read and take notes on The Odyssey, Book 5

• • Also read this brief handout that summarizes Books 2-4

  • Familiarize yourself with important characters in The Odyssey:

  • Link to Odyssey character names (you'll have a quiz on these names at the beginning of next week)

    • Below are the names that got cut off the list

      • • Kirke (Circe)—a nymph with magical powers

          • • Teiresias—blind prophet, now dead

            • Agamemnon—King of Argos, brother of Menelaos; led the troops to the Trojan War, now dead

            • Klytaimnestra—wife of Agamemnon, who kills him when he returns home from the Trojan War, now dead

            • Akhilleus/Achilles—greatest of the Greek warriors, now dead

            • Kalypso (Calypso)—minor goddess, daughter of Atlas; detains Odysseus on her island of Ogygia for approx. 7 years

            • Nausicaa—daughter of King Alkinoos and Queen Arete, in the land of Phaiakia

            • Aigisthos—Menalaos’ and Agamemnon’s cousin, lover of Klytaimnestra and Agamemnon’s murderer

            • Orestes—son of Agamemnon and Klytaimnestra; killed his mother and Aigisthos

Thur 10/19, Fri 10/20--(L):

Th 10/12--NO CLASSES

Fri 10/14--