{"id":40,"date":"2012-08-24T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/knownworld\/?p=40"},"modified":"2012-08-26T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T00:07:14","slug":"study-questions-for-odyssey-iv-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/2012\/08\/24\/study-questions-for-odyssey-iv-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Questions for Odyssey IV-VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some more study questions for the next three books of the\u00a0<em>Odyssey<\/em>. \u00a0I will put up a longer blog post that might serve as a model for your own contributions over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Please also remember that the &#8220;comments&#8221; function is now enabled for every post. If you want to respond to any of the questions that I put up, or if you want to add questions or ideas of your own, go right ahead &#8211; somebody has to be the first! Ideally, this blog will become a natural extension of our in-class conversations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Questions for Book IV:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the first time we\u2019ve seen Menelaos and Helen after their return from the War.\u00a0 How\u2019s their marriage doing?<\/li>\n<li>You will notice that a lot of people are telling a lot of different stories in this book.\u00a0 Try to come up with a rough diagram that would illustrate who is narrating when and how the stories are related to one another.\u00a0 Why might Homer construct such an elaborate structure?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions for Book V:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is our first real meeting with Odysseus.\u00a0 What is your inital impression of him?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of a relationship does he have with Kalypso?\u00a0 And are there ways to productively relate Kalypso as a host to Penelope, Nestor or Menelaos?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions for Book VI:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Phaiakians are our first example of a non-Greek society.\u00a0 Are there any pertinent differences between them and the Greeks?<\/li>\n<li>What does Odysseus\u2019 behavior at the river tell us about him (beyond the obvious conclusion that he\u2019s crafty)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some more study questions for the next three books of the\u00a0Odyssey. \u00a0I will put up a longer blog post that might serve as a model for your own contributions over the weekend. Please also remember that the &#8220;comments&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/2012\/08\/24\/study-questions-for-odyssey-iv-vi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}