Literary Luminary

Name: _Kevin Ting

Text: Odyssey
Date: August 9
Books: 5-8

Literary Luminary: The Odyssey features a powerful array of epithets and figures of speech.
Your job is: (a) to prepare a summary of the reading. Make a quick statement to discuss the
UNIVERSAL TRUTH found in the text; (b) to identify “Golden Lines”—or special passages in the
text (interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections). You will also ponder on how
certain lines in the text are further illuminated in succeeding scenes. Decide which passages or
paragraphs are worth remembering, and indicate how you plan to present them: (a) You can read
the passages aloud yourself, (b) ask someone else to read them, or (c) read them together as a
group. Make sure to discuss your analysis of the selected text.

Quick Statement: What, for you, is the UNIVERSAL TRUTH in the text? Compare
this with others’.
The universal truth is that a house left without a man in charge becomes
troubled and experiences great turmoil

Golden Lines Book Significance and

Analysis
“A hard-hearted lot 5 Informative
you are, you Calypso to Hermes
gods,and as jealous -Shows how even
as jealous can be! the gods are jealous
Why are you beings.
shocked when a
goddess sleeps with
a man and makes
no secret of it,
when she happens
to find one she can
love as a husband?”
...Odysseus was not 5 Emotions
there. He was
sitting in his usual
place on the
shore,nwearing out
his soul with
lamentation and
tears.
As he spoke,...and 5 Funny/
these two (Calypso Controversial
and Odysseus) lay
down... and enjoyed
their love together
“Damn it all, the 5 Important
gods have changed
their minds about Poseidon upon
Odysseus, …. .. end seeing Odysseus on
of the tribulations his way to Phaiacia
which afflict him.
But I promise that I
will yet give him a
good run of bad
luck”
When he 6 Informative,
(Odysseus) had Important
washed all clean
and rubbed himself
with oil.... Athena
covered his head
and shoulders with
beauty.
“When I saw him I 6 Funny, surprising.
thought him an ugly
creature, but now Princess Nausicaa
he is like one of the upon seeing
gods who rule the Odysseus after his
broad heavens. I bath
only wish that I
might have one like
him for my
husband!”
“Arete,..... I come in 6 Important,
my distress, a controversial
suppliant to your Odysseus to Arete,
husband and to wife of Alcinoos
your knees......I
beseech you to send
me home to my
native land without
delay, for I have
long sufffered
tribulation far from
my friends. “
“Ah well, sir, I would 7 Funny
not put you down as
a fellow who goes in Broadsea
for games,...you challenging
certainly have not theOdysseus
look of a sportsman”
“Out with you then- 7 Funny
and take me on,
you have put my Odysseus
back up.....As for all challenging
men who now eat everyone.
bread on the face of
the earth,I say that I
am better than any
of them”
“Now tell me all 8 Important,
about your travels, controversial,
what countries you Alcinoos to intriguing.
have visited,......tell Odysseus
us why you are so
unhappy when you
hear the fate of the
fall of Troy....”
Possible Reasons for Picking a Passage:

funny controversial important surprising

confusing informative

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