Books 1-4 by Caroline Brown https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1 The Odyssey en-us 2017-01-02 17:00:52 UTC 2017-05-17 09:53:09 UTC hello@padlet.com BOOK 1: caroline_brown1 https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144987825 The story begins ten years after the end of the Trojan War, the subject of the Iliad. All of the Greek heroes except Odysseus have returned home. Odysseus languishes on the remote island with the goddess Calypso, who has fallen in love with him and refuses to let him leave. Meanwhile, a mob of suitors is devouring his estate in Ithaca and courting his wife, Penelope, in hopes of taking over his kingdom. His son, Telemachus, an infant when Odysseus left but now a young man, is helpless to stop them. He has resigned himself to the likelihood that his father is dead.
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With the consent of Zeus, Athena travels to Ithaca to speak with Telemachus. Assuming the form of Odysseus’s old friend Mentes, Athena predicts that Odysseus is still alive and that he will soon return to Ithaca. She advises Telemachus to call together the suitors and announce their banishment from his father’s estate. She then tells him that he must make a journey to Pylos and Sparta to ask for any news of his father. 

He then gives the suitors notice that he will hold an assembly the next day at which they will be ordered to leave his father’s estate. ]]> 2017-01-02 17:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144987825 caroline_brown1 https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144988628 2017-01-02 17:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144988628 Watch this when you finish all four books: caroline_brown1 https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144988713 2017-01-02 17:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144988713 Book 2: caroline_brown1 https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144989193 When the assembly meets the next day, a wise elder speaks first. He praises Telemachus for stepping into his father’s shoes, noting that this occasion marks the first time that the assembly has been called since Odysseus left. Telemachus then gives an impassioned speech in which he laments the loss of both his father and his father’s home—his mother’s suitors, the sons of Ithaca’s elders, have taken it over. He rebukes them for consuming his father’s oxen and sheep as they pursue their courtship day in and day out when any decent man would simply go to Penelope’s father, Icarius, and ask him for her hand in marriage.

Antinous blames Penelope, who, he says, seduces every suitor but will commit to none of them. He reminds the suitors of a promise that she gave to put off remarrying: Penelope maintained that she would choose a husband as soon as she finished weaving a burial shroud for her elderly father-in-law. But each night, she carefully undid the knitting that she had completed during the day, so that the shroud would never be finished. If Penelope can make no decision, Antinous declares, then she should be sent back to her homeland so that he can choose a new husband for her. The dutiful Telemachus refuses to throw his mother out and calls upon the gods to punish the suitors. At that moment, a pair of eagles, locked in combat, appears overhead. 

As Telemachus is preparing for his trip to Pylos and Sparta, Athena visits him again, this time disguised as Mentor, another old friend of Odysseus. She encourages him and predicts that his journey will be fruitful.

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]]> 2017-01-02 17:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/144989193 Books 3 & 4 caroline_brown1 https://padlet.com/caroline_brown1/7gbe389kdjc1/wish/145000075 Although Telemachus has little experience with public speaking, Mentor gives him the encouragement that he needs to approach Nestor, the city’s king, and ask him about Odysseus. Nestor, however, has no information about the Greek hero. He recounts that after the fall of Troy a falling-out occurred between Agamemnon and Menelaus, the two Greek brothers who had led the expedition. He says that he can only pray that Athena will show Telemachus the kindness that she showed Odysseus. He adds that he has heard that suitors have taken over the prince’s house in Ithaca and that he hopes that Telemachus will achieve the renown in defense of his father. Telemachus sets sail for Sparta to continue his journey. 

In Sparta, the king and queen, Menelaus and Helen, are celebrating the separate marriages of their son and daughter. They happily greet Telemachus, the latter of whom they soon recognize as the son of Odysseus because of the clear family resemblance. As they all feast, the king and queen recount the many examples of Odysseus’s skill at Troy. Helen recalls how Odysseus dressed as a beggar to infiltrate the city’s walls. Menelaus tells the famous story of the Trojan horse, Odysseus’s masterful gambit that allowed the Greeks to sneak into Troy and slaughter the Trojans. The following day, Menelaus recounts his own return from Troy. He says that, stranded in Egypt, he was forced to capture Proteus, the divine Old Man of the Sea. Proteus told him the way back to Sparta.  Proteus also told him news of Odysseus—that he was still alive but was imprisoned by Calypso on her island. Buoyed by this report, Telemachus  sets sail for Ithaca.Meanwhile, the suitors at Odysseus’s house learn of Telemachus’s voyage and prepare to ambush him upon his return. 

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