Odyssey Content
Nausicaä She is physically beautiful ‘as tall and beautiful as a goddess’
Epic simile to compare her to Artemis ‘she looked like Artemis the archress’
She helps Odysseus ‘give her food and drink
Odysseus
Thumos is Obtained by victory and feats of strength and cunning ideas such as
enthusiasm, Blinding the cyclops
thirst for Facing Scylla and Charybdis in battle and won though it cost him his men
battle, glory
Menos is Examples of this is:
power, ● Showing physical strength by binging the cyclops
strength or ● Resisting Circe
masculinity ● Escapes from Scylla and Charybdis
But he had more mental strength and power as he is known as ‘cunning’ Odysseus
But throughout he is not portrayed as masculine:
● he gives up in the storm against Poseidon
● cries on Calypso’ Island
Aidos is fear Disgrace towards the god as is a big part of the Odyssey as Zeus is the god of Xenia and
of shame throughout the books Xenia starts to not be performed and is disregarded
and
disgrace
Leadership Good Bad
● Clever and brave ● Greedy for Kleos that leads t his
● Cares for his men downfall
● Came up with ● Loses all his men in the end
plans and ● Didn’t know that one of his men had
strategies at times died
of great distress ● Had to be dragged out of Circe’s island
● Doesn’t leave any by his men
of his men behind ● Very arrogant and prideful
and tries to help ● Has a poor relationship with his men as
them his men ignores his advice to leave
● Looks out for his cicones
crew despite ● He sends his men instead of himself to
them being see in dangerous places
disobedient and ● Disobeys Circe’s instructions
argumentive ● Don’t tell his men everything
● lies
Treatment to women Nausicaä:
Act in a predator way when they first meet ‘like a mountain lion’ this could
be because the gods had caused him so much torture as well as his own fault
too that he needs to defend and attack
Bega foe her help ‘courteously pleaded his case also completes and asks if
she is a goddess to treat her with respect and create a connection between
her
Arête:
Threw his arms around here and requests help as he has suffered to gain
sympathy saying, ‘I come a suppliant’ which is a repeated phrase Odysseus
says he needs help
, Treatment to goddess Speaks to Calypso with ‘words the flaw’ as he presents his charming nature
towards her and is very precise with what he says to her even though he
wants to leave the island , Ogygia, He is very ‘nimble-witted’ in knowing how
to compliment Calypso as well which could be seen as a form of
manipulation to get his way on the night before he leaves
Ino:
Despite her giving him a lot of help he doesn’t accept straight away and
doesn’t believe her intentions are good. Once his raft is destroyed he then
decides to take her help
Treatment to gods River God
Knows what to say to get him to help him by using sympathy and pitty during
his favour and h uses pity to earn respect.
Poseidon:
Has great anger ad revenge for Odysseus and sends a storm to disrupt
Odysseus travel and in response he becomes disheartened and is afraid to
have an ‘ignoble death’ reflecting his Kleos
Circe Circe is an animal taming witch who I the daughter o the sun god and lives in Aeaea where she detains
Odysseus is called a:
Formidable goddess
With a mortal human voice
Her Palace is:
built of polished stone
has mountains of wolves with horns prowling around
animals are bewitched with her magic drugs and did not attack Odysseus’ man but rose on their hind legs
and wagged their tails like ‘dogs fawning on their master’
Circe is singing and weaving inside
Genre of This is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds
an epic and events significant to a culture or nation.
In Greece and Rome epic poetry is written in hexameters, concentrating either on the fortunes of a great
hero and his civilisation with the god.
Themes were:
Praise to the glory of the heroes (Klea Andron)
Relationship with heroes and their father (epic = a patriarchal world)
Religion
Overconfidence of the hero
Nostalgia/glorification for the bygone era
Civilisation Civil: Barbaric:
vs ● Xenia ● Cannibalism
Barbarism ● Greeks ● Witchcraft
● Weaving ● Monsters
● Music and singing ● Being deceitful
● Respect for the gods ● Hubris
● Humans (mostly) ● Not doing xenia
● Farming ● Not being Greek
● Wine-making
Book 5 ● The gods was having an assembly at the start and Athene speaks on behalf of Odysseus. In response
to Athene he sends Hermes (the giant killer), his son, to talk to the Nymph Calypso.
● He goes off to Calypso’s home a great cavern. And Hermes stops and ‘gaze in wonder and delight’
and to his ‘heart’s content’. While Hermes does this ‘lion hearted Odysseus crying on the shore.
● Calypso offers Hermes hospitality and a mixed cup of ‘red nectar’ which is an example of good
Xenia. Hermes tell her what Zeus said and she ‘shuddered’ and talks about Dawn and Demeter who
fell in love with mortals and the gods killed their lovers. She speaks about how she saved him from
death and offers him immorality.
Nausicaä She is physically beautiful ‘as tall and beautiful as a goddess’
Epic simile to compare her to Artemis ‘she looked like Artemis the archress’
She helps Odysseus ‘give her food and drink
Odysseus
Thumos is Obtained by victory and feats of strength and cunning ideas such as
enthusiasm, Blinding the cyclops
thirst for Facing Scylla and Charybdis in battle and won though it cost him his men
battle, glory
Menos is Examples of this is:
power, ● Showing physical strength by binging the cyclops
strength or ● Resisting Circe
masculinity ● Escapes from Scylla and Charybdis
But he had more mental strength and power as he is known as ‘cunning’ Odysseus
But throughout he is not portrayed as masculine:
● he gives up in the storm against Poseidon
● cries on Calypso’ Island
Aidos is fear Disgrace towards the god as is a big part of the Odyssey as Zeus is the god of Xenia and
of shame throughout the books Xenia starts to not be performed and is disregarded
and
disgrace
Leadership Good Bad
● Clever and brave ● Greedy for Kleos that leads t his
● Cares for his men downfall
● Came up with ● Loses all his men in the end
plans and ● Didn’t know that one of his men had
strategies at times died
of great distress ● Had to be dragged out of Circe’s island
● Doesn’t leave any by his men
of his men behind ● Very arrogant and prideful
and tries to help ● Has a poor relationship with his men as
them his men ignores his advice to leave
● Looks out for his cicones
crew despite ● He sends his men instead of himself to
them being see in dangerous places
disobedient and ● Disobeys Circe’s instructions
argumentive ● Don’t tell his men everything
● lies
Treatment to women Nausicaä:
Act in a predator way when they first meet ‘like a mountain lion’ this could
be because the gods had caused him so much torture as well as his own fault
too that he needs to defend and attack
Bega foe her help ‘courteously pleaded his case also completes and asks if
she is a goddess to treat her with respect and create a connection between
her
Arête:
Threw his arms around here and requests help as he has suffered to gain
sympathy saying, ‘I come a suppliant’ which is a repeated phrase Odysseus
says he needs help
, Treatment to goddess Speaks to Calypso with ‘words the flaw’ as he presents his charming nature
towards her and is very precise with what he says to her even though he
wants to leave the island , Ogygia, He is very ‘nimble-witted’ in knowing how
to compliment Calypso as well which could be seen as a form of
manipulation to get his way on the night before he leaves
Ino:
Despite her giving him a lot of help he doesn’t accept straight away and
doesn’t believe her intentions are good. Once his raft is destroyed he then
decides to take her help
Treatment to gods River God
Knows what to say to get him to help him by using sympathy and pitty during
his favour and h uses pity to earn respect.
Poseidon:
Has great anger ad revenge for Odysseus and sends a storm to disrupt
Odysseus travel and in response he becomes disheartened and is afraid to
have an ‘ignoble death’ reflecting his Kleos
Circe Circe is an animal taming witch who I the daughter o the sun god and lives in Aeaea where she detains
Odysseus is called a:
Formidable goddess
With a mortal human voice
Her Palace is:
built of polished stone
has mountains of wolves with horns prowling around
animals are bewitched with her magic drugs and did not attack Odysseus’ man but rose on their hind legs
and wagged their tails like ‘dogs fawning on their master’
Circe is singing and weaving inside
Genre of This is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds
an epic and events significant to a culture or nation.
In Greece and Rome epic poetry is written in hexameters, concentrating either on the fortunes of a great
hero and his civilisation with the god.
Themes were:
Praise to the glory of the heroes (Klea Andron)
Relationship with heroes and their father (epic = a patriarchal world)
Religion
Overconfidence of the hero
Nostalgia/glorification for the bygone era
Civilisation Civil: Barbaric:
vs ● Xenia ● Cannibalism
Barbarism ● Greeks ● Witchcraft
● Weaving ● Monsters
● Music and singing ● Being deceitful
● Respect for the gods ● Hubris
● Humans (mostly) ● Not doing xenia
● Farming ● Not being Greek
● Wine-making
Book 5 ● The gods was having an assembly at the start and Athene speaks on behalf of Odysseus. In response
to Athene he sends Hermes (the giant killer), his son, to talk to the Nymph Calypso.
● He goes off to Calypso’s home a great cavern. And Hermes stops and ‘gaze in wonder and delight’
and to his ‘heart’s content’. While Hermes does this ‘lion hearted Odysseus crying on the shore.
● Calypso offers Hermes hospitality and a mixed cup of ‘red nectar’ which is an example of good
Xenia. Hermes tell her what Zeus said and she ‘shuddered’ and talks about Dawn and Demeter who
fell in love with mortals and the gods killed their lovers. She speaks about how she saved him from
death and offers him immorality.
