Mythology

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Part Four The Heroes of the Trojan War

Chapter 15 The Adventures of Odysseus Chapter 16 The Adventures of Aeneas

1. From which mythology source did Edith Hamilton take the adventures of Odysseus?

2. What caused Athena to become angry at the Greeks?

3. How did Poseidon avenge Athena?

4. What was happening with Penelope, wife of Odysseus, while he was trying to get home?

5. Who was Telemachus, and what did he do?

6. How did the Phaeacians help Odysseus?

7. What happened to Odysseus and his men when they reached Circe’s island?

8. Where did Odysseus have to go to find out how to get home?

9. How did Odysseus get rid of the suitors when he arrived home?

10. What is the source for the adventures of Aeneas?

11. Why did Aeneas go on a journey?

12. Who was Dido, and why was she important?

13. What role did Juno and Venus have in the story of Aeneas?

14. Where did Aeneas go when he left Carthage?

15. Briefly describe the war in Italy.

Pre-reading Vocabulary - Mythology

Chapter 15 The Adventures of Odysseus Chapter 16 The Adventures of Aeneas

Introduction Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.

Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.

1. She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land.

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2. She treated them with kindness, feasting them sumptuously in her house.

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3. So rang their song in lovely cadences.

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4. He succeeded in reaching the Phaeacian land, a helpless destitute man.

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5. An angry clamor broke out at the words.

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6. Virgil is responsible for the change from the human Aeneas of the first books to the unhuman

prodigy of the last.

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7. ...and reaching Italy far to the north of the whirlpool of implacable Charybdis.

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8. ...his face squalid in the extreme with a thick growth of hair.

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9. She was known to be not susceptible. All the kings of the country had tried to persuade her to

marry them with no success.

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10. The king went forth with two great dogs following him, his sole retinue and bodyguard.

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Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

____ 1. enticed                        A. messengers, government representatives

____ 2. sumptuously                 B. balanced, rhythmic beats

____ 3. cadences                     C. a person who has exceptional talents or powers

____ 4. destitute                       D. dirty from poverty or lack of care

____ 5. clamor                         E. lavishly, suggesting great expense

____ 6. prodigy                        F. impoverished, lacking the means of subsistence

____ 7. implacable                   G. lured, tempted

____ 8. squalid                         H. loud expression of discontent

____ 9. susceptible                   I. not able to be appeased

____10. retinue                        J. easily affected or influenced