Directions: Read lines 17-69 of the story Odysseus closely, and complete the following questions. To earn full credit, answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES, including proper capitalization, and punctuation. Use quotes from the text to justify your answer.
1. At this point in the epic, the story changes into 1st person Point of View and hero Odysseus ( not the poet Homer) recounts his own adventures. In what way does this POV change affect your reaction to the events he describes? Cite an example from the text to support your response.
2. Note the words Odysseus uses to describe the enemy army, the Cicones, in lines 53–57.
a. What is he expressing about what he and his men felt?
b. How threatening did the enemy appear to Odysseus?
3. Odysseus says his men were “mutinous fools” (lines 47-48) and so came the “dark word of Zeus” (line 56).
a. What is Odysseus saying happened to them and why?
b. Why would Homer use these words to say this?
4. a. Why does Odysseus leave home? (lines 21-37)
b. What does Odysseus want more than anything else?
c. How does this goal give structure to the epic?
5. Describe the image created in lines 97-100. What almost happened to the men Odysseus sent to learn about the Lotus-Eaters?
but those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotus,
never cared to report, nor return:
they longed to stay forever, browsing on
That native bloom, forgetful of their homeland (Homer 97-100).
6.What did Odysseus have to do to save his men? Cite the line number where you found the answer.
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