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The Odyssey
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Word Bank
Names:
Poseidon
Odysseus
Achilles
Achilles
Penelope
Hector
Places:
Troy
Other:
man
grandmother
sea
gods
remarry
boast
boy
assistance
nothing
avoiding
aging
victory
nine
keeping
monster
surrender
attack
remarry
thank
Horse
trick
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The battle at ____________ had been going on for ______ years when the Trojan warrior,
_____________, is finally killed by Greece’s warrior, _________________, but overall, ___________ is
still winning the war. It is when _____________________ is slain that _________________ realizes
something must be done. He devises a plan to get into the walls of Troy: the construction of the Trojan
_______________. When the Greeks present this to the Trojans as a gift of __________________, a
soothsayer advises the Trojans not to accept it, saying it is a _______________, but when he is attacked
by a sea ______________, the Trojans take it as a sign from ___________________, who is the God of
the __________, and decide to accept the Greek’s offer and take their “gift” within the walls of Troy. In
the middle of the night, the Greeks __________ from the ________________ and ______________ the
Trojans.
In an act of pride, excitement, and possibly anger, Odysseus ______________ to the gods for his
______________ and does not ______________ them for their _________________, for it was them
who sent the sea serpent that killed the soothsayer. _________________________ takes this pride of a
mortal man as an insult and tells him “a ________ is _______________ without the ____________.” He
then punishes Odysseus by _______________ him at ________.
Back in Ithaca, Telemachus is about 10 years old. When he is found playing in the fields like a
child, his _______________________ insists he go to the field’s to shear sheep. ______________ scolds
her mother-in-law’s strictness saying, “He is just a ______________,” but by continuing to think of her
son as only a small child, she is ___________________ the inevitable, which is his ________________
(during which he will grow a beard) and her having to _______________.
The Illustrated Odyssey
from Mythweb (http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey)
Book 3, Book 4
1. After the Trojan War, but before returning home, Agmemnon and Menelaus argue about
when they should start the voyage home. Explain both sides of the argument.
What decision is made?
With whom does Odysseus side?
What comes of his decision?
2. Agamemnon is eventually slain by fellow Greeks. Who are they and why do they kill
him?
Who avenges Agamemnon’s murder and when?
3. Why does Menelaus not avenge Agamemnon’s murder?
What happens to Menelaus and his crew – where do they end up?
4. What do Menelaus and his crew have to do in order to learn how to get back on the right
path?
What power does The Old Man of the Sea possess?
What does the Old Man of the Sea tell Menelaus he and his men must do in order to set
sail again?
Whom does he tell them are the only two men not to have perished on their way
home from Troy?