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Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”  Bachelor in Education Teaching English as a Foreign Language Subject: English Literature Analysis Workshop: The odyssey Dear student please develop the following activities following these instructions properly: 1. Go to the resources section (in the virtual campus) and find a link called: The odyssey – First task a. Watch the video about “The Odyssey” by Homer (8th Century BCE). b. Explore the timeline & Map, Slideshow, Connections and Key Points. c. Read the Getting started section and Text section (Book 1) check the glossary too. 2. Answer these questions: a. Write in front of each description the name of the character: DESCRIPTION

Main suitor; all suitors take over Odysseus's house while he's gone; most arrogant suitor. Stays faithful to her husband, all the suitors wish to take her hand in marriage; questions her own husband to prove himself, before she believes him. Strong and brave epic hero, left for Troy and doesn't return home until twenty years later, the epic story is based in his journey home; defeats and kills all the suitors in battle with Telemachus; the suitors had invaded his home while he was gone. God of the sea, brother of Zeus King of gods, Poseidon's brother Grew up without a father, sets out in order to find his father; defeats and kills all the suitors in battle. Daughter of Zeus; goddess of wisdom; helps Odysseus through his whole journey home and aids Odysseus and Telemachus in their battle against the suitors.

CHARACTER Agelao Penelope

Odysseus(Ulises)

Poseidon Zeus Telemaco

Atenea

b. Whose help is invoked to tell the story of Odysseus and his adventures as the epic opens? The muse

c. On whose island is Odysseus imprisoned at the beginning of the epic? Calypso

Author: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz

Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”  Bachelor in Education Teaching English as a Foreign Language Subject: English Literature Analysis Workshop: The odyssey

d. Review the Expert´s View about the Odyssey in the materials provided and identify each expert´s view in the following comments: "When they were married, Odysseus didn't simply have a bed made for them, it was almost as if he constructed the palace around the whole bed. It was sort of a tree bowl that had grown into the palace and they built the bedroom around it." Expert’s name: Simon Armitage

This scene shows a fascinating mix of psychological realism and a symbolically heightened reality, in a kind of expansive elaboration of the early flashes of realism to be found in the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. In that story, Gilgamesh denies that his beloved friend Enkidu has died, sitting by his corpse for six days and seven nights, until a worm crawls out of Enkidu's nose. Homer makes much use of this vivid physical detail to bring his scenes to life even farther. A lesser work would have cut straight to the chase, giving us an emotion-filled scene of rejoicing as the longseparated hero and heroine rush into each other's arms. Yet here, surprisingly, Penelope refuses to recognize her beloved husband, despite the fact that Athena has even restored him magically to his youthful appearance of twenty years before. Not yet a modern novelist, Homer is quite comfortable giving us this miraculous transformation, and Penelope herself never questions how this rejuvenation could come about. So why doesn't she recognize him? Or does she, but she is refusing to admit it to herself? Or is she so completely a match for Odysseus that she takes nothing for what it seems to be? Homer leaves us to plumb the meaning of the scene as he fleshes it out with the many details that Odysseus, having fallen into the loving trap set for him by his wife, calls to mind in outrage at the idea that she now might have a new, movable bed. Expert’s name: David Damrosch

"From the time which it began to circulate in the Greek world, The Odyssey was acknowledged as a traveler's text. So Alexander the Great, when he set off to Egypt, had a copy of The Odyssey with him. Lawrence of Arabia is the other classic explorer who is famous for citing The Odyssey as his inspirational text. I've heard it said The Odyssey was a text that Columbus traveled with, and that in addition to the Bible, it was one of his master nar ratives for his New World exploration. There's seldom a period when The Odyssey falls out of view." Expert’s name: Greenwood

"Penelope is the wife of Odysseus, and she's a perfect match for him, because she's just as crafty as he is, just as devious, just as careful, and just as imaginative. She's keeping all of these suitors at bay in her house who are just clamoring to marry her and take over the castle and the lands of Odysseus by telling them, Oh, you know, I have to weave a shroud for my poor father, and I  just have to finish this, and so she weaves it every day, and then at night she unweaves it, so it's never ever done. So, even though he comes and he says, I'm home, it's me, it's your husband, she wants one test."

Author: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz

Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”  Bachelor in Education Teaching English as a Foreign Language Subject: English Literature Analysis Workshop: The odyssey Expert’s name: Mary Zimmerman

"I think in a modern novel, you would expect a husband and wife to recognize each other before any other recognition scene happens. But in The Odyssey, that relationship is so complex and so deep that when it has been severed, it takes a very long and hard time to rebuild." Expert’s name: Gregory Nagy

3. In a short paragraph, define what is the importance of this book in history. Include aspects like: -

The social impact. The importance in world literature. The topics and characters and how they have transcended in history. Any other aspect you consider relevant.

4. Complete the chart with the following information: CHARACTERISTIC

Setting Plot Theme Characters Conflict Resolution

Tone Tense Climax

ANSWER

It happens in the sea but also in the town of Itaca Genres of action, drama and narrative epic It narrates the adventures of Oddyseusen the sea until it reaches the shores of Itaca. Ulises, Penelope, Poseidon, Atenea, etc. It is the confllicto between Troy and Greece and in this conflict the adventure of Oddyseus or Ulysses is developed. Poem of love and heroism, symbol of the voyage that every man must do to find himself, to his destiny, the adventure of a striving hero who tries to return to his homeland, to his home, and who loses companions and years, but gains the reward of definitive fidelity and peace. Epic In ancient Greece and in the 11th century Ulysses manages to do all his job and so put everything in order.

Author: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz