THEMES:
Be able to show three examples from the
text to back up each of the following:
Loyalty
Hospitality
Pride/Arrogance
Coming of Age
Forgetting (or the evils of drugs and
women)
MOTIFS:
Be able to explain the following and
why they are used:
Storytelling
Back story of Troy
Agammenon/Clytaimnestra
Other Epic elements:
Starts “in the middle of things”;
Odysseus’ tragic flaw; sports
SYMBOLS:
Be able to explain the following:
Birds (especially eagles); Hades;
Odyssey’s Wound
GODS (know the following and what they
do in the text)::
Athena; Poseidon; Hermes; Zeus; Helios
SEDUCTRESSES: (know the following and
their purpose)
Helen; Calypso; Circe; Sirens
CHARACTERS:
Be able to give a description of the
following and their roles in the story (perhaps what the symbolize or represent
– and connect to a theme)
Agammenon Amphinomos
Achilles Telemachos
Helen Laertes
Menelaus Penelope
Aias (Ajax) Antinoos
Orestes Eurymachos
Nestor Lotus
Eaters
Mentor Ciconians
Nausicaa Polyphemos
Alcinoos Scylla
Arete Charybdis
Emaios Aiolos
Theoclymenos Elpenor
Melanthios Teiresias
Arnaios Eurylochos
Eurycleia Cassandra
Tityo Tantalus
Sisyphus
