The Odyssey by Homer (trans. by Robert Fagles) Fall 2018 Reading Schedule
Selection in Book Read-by Date Background in Holt Literature p. 1186-1201 Friday, November 9, 2018 Part I: The Travels of Telemachus Books 1-4 Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Part IIA: The Wanderings: Calypso & Phaeacia Books 5-8 Friday, November 16, 2018 Part IIB: The Wanderings: Flashback Books 9-12 Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Part III: Coming Home Books 13-16 Monday, November 26, 2018 Books 17-19 Friday, November 30, 2018 Books 20-24 Monday, December 3, 2018 Test Review Tuesday, December 4, 2018 The Odyssey TEST Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Terms Background Characters Homer From Other Myths Odysseus’s Travels Suitors The Iliad Achaeans Calypso Antinous Myths Atrides Ino Eurymachus Epic Orestes Phaeacians Amphinomus Characteristics of the Epic Agamemnon Alcinous Leodes Characteristics of Epic Hero Clytemnestra Arete Invocation Aegisthus Nausicaa Servants Episodic Structure Broadsea Eurycleia in medias res Family/ Friends Demodocus Eumaeus Homeric or Heroic Simile Odysseus Cicones Philoetius monomyth Penelope Lotus Eaters Melantho Cycle of the Hero Telemachus Aeolus Melanthius dramatic irony Laertes Laestrygonians situational irony Mentor/Mentes Cyclops Other Ithacans epithet Argos Polyphemus Irus Circe Medon Places Crew Ajax Phemius Eurylochus Achilles Ithaca Elpenor Anticlea Ogygia Tiresias Gods/Goddesses Phaeacia (Scheria) Telemachus’s Sirens Pallas Athena Sparta (Lacedaemon) Travels Scylla Hermes Pylos Nestor Charybdis Poseidon Aeaea Pisistratus Helios Ismarus Menelaus Zeus Helen Proteus Theoclymenus The Odyssey by Homer (trans. by Robert Fagles) Fall 2018 Reading Schedule
Selection in Book Read-by Date Background in Holt Literature p. 1186-1201 Friday, November 9, 2018 Part I: The Travels of Telemachus Books 1-4 Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Part IIA: The Wanderings: Calypso & Phaeacia Books 5-8 Friday, November 16, 2018 Part IIB: The Wanderings: Flashback Books 9-12 Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Part III: Coming Home Books 13-16 Monday, November 26, 2018 Books 17-19 Friday, November 30, 2018 Books 20-24 Monday, December 3, 2018 Test Review Tuesday, December 4, 2018 The Odyssey TEST Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Terms Background Characters Homer From Other Myths Odysseus’s Travels Suitors The Iliad Achaeans Calypso Antinous Myths Atrides Ino Eurymachus Epic Orestes Phaeacians Amphinomus Characteristics of the Epic Agamemnon Alcinous Leodes Characteristics of Epic Hero Clytemnestra Arete Invocation Aegisthus Nausicaa Servants Episodic Structure Broadsea Eurycleia in medias res Family/ Friends Demodocus Eumaeus Homeric or Heroic Simile Odysseus Cicones Philoetius monomyth Penelope Lotus Eaters Melantho Cycle of the Hero Telemachus Aeolus Melanthius dramatic irony Laertes Laestrygonians situational irony Mentor/Mentes Cyclops Other Ithacans epithet Argos Polyphemus Irus Circe Medon Places Crew Ajax Phemius Eurylochus Achilles Ithaca Elpenor Anticlea Ogygia Tiresias Gods/Goddesses Phaeacia (Scheria) Telemachus’s Sirens Pallas Athena Sparta (Lacedaemon) Travels Scylla Hermes Pylos Nestor Charybdis Poseidon Aeaea Pisistratus Helios Ismarus Menelaus Zeus Helen Proteus Theoclymenus