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The Odyssey - Book 11 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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The Odyssey - Book 11 QuestionsAnd Answers Latest Update
What favor does Elpenor ask of Odysseus? ANS✔✔ Elpenor wants Odysseus
to properly bury him. and remember him (he died when he fell off the roof)
What ritual does Odysseus perform in order to meet those in the Underworld?
ANS✔✔ Makes offerings, gather shades of the dead to drink blood. He must
perform Elpenor's rights.
What does Tiresias do in order to speak to Odysseus? ANS✔✔ He must,
"stand back from the trench put up your sword so i can drink blood and tell
you all the truth."
Polyphemus' curse ANS✔✔ You will come home LATE, ALONE, A
BROKEN MAN, STRANGER'S SHIP, WORLD OF PAIN AT HOME
What does Odysseus learn about his journey form Tiresias? ANS✔✔ He will
make it home, but he'll find trouble there (learns of suitors). He will make the
suitors pay. He will die in peace at an old age. But first will have another
journey to appease Poseidon.
What does Odysseus learn from Anticleia? What does Odysseus. try to do?
Why does he fail? ANS✔✔ -wife hasn't remarried
-Telemachus is good
-dad is sleeping with servants
, -mom died of a broken heart
Odysseus tries to hug his mom 3 times, but she's dead and slips through his
grasp
What does Agamemnon tell Odysseus about how men should feel about
women? ANS✔✔ Says women are untrustworthy and treacherous, says to
only tell women part of the truth
What is the reason for Ajax's anger at Odysseus? ANS✔✔ Ajax refuses to
speak with Odysseus because Odysseus won the contest between the two for
Achilles' godlike armor. Ajax thinks he died because Odysseus got the armor
Tiresias ANS✔✔ Blind prophet who will help get Odysseus home
Achille's thoughts about being dead ANS✔✔ "I would rather be a paid
servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among
the dead."
There's an interruption in the story about Hades - why? ANS✔✔ Odysseus is
tired! He wants to stop, but Queen Arete and King Alcinous want more stories!
How does O get to Hades? ANS✔✔ Odysseus travels to the River of Ocean in
the land of the Cimmerians. There he pours libations and performs sacrifices
as Circe earlier instructs him to do to attract the souls of the dead.
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