Reading Response 5 (Due Monday)

I apologize for not posting this earlier, I forgot that my 88 year old grandmother does not have internet :/

Reading Assignment: Odyssey Books 1 & 2

(3 & 4 if you have time, or read online summary)

The questions for Monday (1 paragraph minimum each)

1. How does this compare to the Iliad so far? Is anything confusing? Is it getting easier to read?

2. Why has Odysseus not yet returned home? Where is he currently?

3. What did you make of Telemachos' speech to the suitors after Athena/Mentor gave him advice? Why do you think he took so long to say these things? What did you think about Antinoos' response?

4. Why mention how much glory Orestes received in avenging his father's death?

5. What are your opinions of Penelope and Telemachos? Why?

Summary of unassigned books:

http://www.classics.ucsb.edu/faculty/morstein/classes/mythology/homer_summaries.htm