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Jason
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Quest for golden fleece, epic cycle (lost)
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Tale of Jason - Folktale, but...
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explorations influenced it
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Tale of Jason - Folktale, but...
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idea of barbarians influenced it
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Tale of Jason - Folktale, but...
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interest in gender conflict between jason and medea
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barbarians
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people from the east and areas the greeks were not familiar with
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Odyssey dealing with time...
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in medias res - starts in the middle of the whole thing, foreshadowing
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Odyssey's narrative is what pov
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first person
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why is the pov important
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bard is a character, a self-conscious narrator who controls the story - reminds us it is a tale
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Odysseus' choice?
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to go home instead of staying with calypso
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odysseus compared to menelaus and achilles?
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menelaus - immortal, had to accept his fate, was not given a choice
achilles - made his choice of a short life with glory but regrets it, rather be a serf on earth than a king in hell |
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Odysseus' values
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homeland, society, family, independence, all part of the moral world
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Odysseus' identity needs to exist where?
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in the human realm, staying with calypso means he does not get his identity
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Penelope
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Odysseus' wife; has to fend off the suitors; weaving, bow contest, etc
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penelope's thoughts on her missing husband
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she laments like no other, she doesn't know if she should leave her son and go off with a suitor or stave them all off
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penelope's dream
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20 geese, and an eagle comes and kills them all and tells her that he is odysseus
-she rejects it because it didn't come the hall of polished horn |
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how does the stranger affect penelope
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she seems comforted and skeptical, but she manages to get to sleep
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what is penelope's plan
what's Odysseus' reaction? |
bow contest, string bow, shoot it through 12 axe-heads
-odysseus says do it |
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what is her reaction to his identity revealed
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she doesn't believe him and she is the one who has to accept him back and give him his identity
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intertextuality
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one story referring to another in its text
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intertextuality 1st 6 books of aeneid
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odyssey, with aeneas out on a boat
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intertextuality books 7-12 of aeneid
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like the iliad with the war and battles
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carthage
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polyphemus cave
-aeneas is cursed circe -he has to be reminded to leave calypso -hermes must set him free phaeacians -dido rescues trojans |
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Orientalism
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tendency to portray east as femenin, luxurious, sensuous, soft, and corrupting
dido was oriental with lots of riches, tried to pull aeneas away from fate |
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furor
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strong emotion, rage, madness
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odysseus
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fought among greek heroes at troy, dealing with troubles to return home to his kingdom and wife penelope and son telemachus
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telemachus
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odysseus' son, 20 at start of story, takes trip to pylos and sparta in bks 3 and 4, helps his mother avoid suitors
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penelope
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odysseus wife, fends off suitors for 20 years with weaving trick
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antinous
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most arrogant of the suitors, wants telemachus killed, odysseus kills him first
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eurymachus
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one of the suitors, very deceitful and manipulative
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amphinomus
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only one of the suitors who is a decent man actually seeking marriage
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eumaeus
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shepherd who helps odysseus reclaim his throne, gave odysseus food and shelter when he was still disguised as the homeless man
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eurycleia
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nurse who raised odysseus, keeps his identity a secret after recognizing the scar, assists penelope
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melanthius
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goatherd who abuses odysseus when he's dressed as the beggar
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laertes
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odysseus father who lives on a farm in ithica
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nestor
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king of pylos and warrior in trojan war, clever speaker
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aeneas
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survivor of seige on troy, a pious character who's destiny is to found rome
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dido
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queen of carthage, she loves aeneas and temps him to stay with her, but aeneas leaves her to fulfull his fate, causing her to commit suicide
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turnus
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aeneas' major antagonist; lavinia's leading suitor; cause of the war on the trojans; kills pallas and wears his belt; this arouses aeneas' furor at the end and causes aeneas to kill him
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ascanius
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aeneas son by his first wife creusa, helps on many occasions and shows his bravery
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anchises
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aeneas' father, dies in journey from troy to italy
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creusa
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aeneas' wife at troy, lost and killed as she attempts to flee the city
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sinon
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persuades trojans to take in the wooden horse as an offering to minerva
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latinus
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king of latins, central italy around the tiber river, wants aeneas to marry lavinia
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lavinia
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latinus' daughter, object of struggle, everyone wants to marry her
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amata
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queen and wife of latinus, hates aeneas and likes turnus, kills herself once she sees aeneas is gonna win
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evander
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king of pallanteum, father of pallas
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pallas
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son of evander, cares for aeneas, killed by turnus
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gripping her right hand, begged in the humblest of tones for her help and promised to make her his wife
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Ovid, Medea and Jason, Jason is humbling himself
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black treachery next...daughters
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ovid, the punishment of pelias, she is killing jasons evil uncle
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euripides medea
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clever, witch, more into persuasion; she is the hero and gets the glory while jason's death is unheroic
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neoptolemos
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achilles son who comes to fight after achilles death. he is more of a bully than a heroic warrior
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mortals! always blaming the gods...
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homer, odyssey, bk 1, life is your own doing, take revenge in to your own hands
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and her eyes rested on the arrogant suitors...
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homer, odyssey, bk 1, setting the scene with the suitors in the courtyard
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...especially since i am master of this house
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homer, odyssey, bk 1, telemachus claiming his growth and trying to take the place of his father
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polytropos
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much traveled, and suffering, applied to odysseus
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jason
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leader of the argonauts, get the golden fleece
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pelias
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evil uncle of jason
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medea
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witch woman helper of jason, wife?
into magic, takes over the story |
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castor
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boxer who fights the bully
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