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Book Summaries Flashcards

1
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What happens in book 1?

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See Zeus and athena talking about O
Suitors living in palace
Telemachus meets with Athena (in disguise)
Penelope weaving shroud

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What happened in book 2?

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T stands up to suitors and tells them to go
More weaving of shroud by P
Eagle omen (O is coming home)
Athena summons men and ship to send T out to find out about O

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What happens in book 3?

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T arrives in pelos to find Nestor
Story of Agamemnon - Clytemnestra to contrast Penelope
Nestor sends his son with T to Sparta to find Menelaus

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What happens in book 4?

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In Sparta - see menalaus and Helen
T tells them about suitors
Menelaus tells him he knows O is stranded on ogygia
The suitors plot to kill T on his return
Athena sends phantom of Ps sister to tell her athena is watching over them all

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What happens in book 5?

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Athena asks Zeus for more help
He tells her to keep looking after T
Sends Hermes to free Odysseus
We first meet odyssey
He sails out of ogygia and Poseidon breaks his ship
Athena and sea nymph deliver him to Phaeacian island

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What happens in book 6?

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Athena lures nausicaa to the beach to meet Odysseus
Nausicaa agrees to help him

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What happens in book 7?

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Odyssey calls on athena - she cloaks him in an obscuring mist
He meets arête and asks her for help
Alcindor’s wants O to marry nausicaa
They agree to provide him a ship

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What happens in book 8?

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There is a feast for Os honour
The bard sings of Odysseus and O cries
Alcinuous starts an athletic competition
O wasnt gonna compete but then did
He crushes everyone (with Athena’s help)
Another song of O
He reveals himself

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What happens in book 9?

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Odysseus recounting his journey
Troy - sacking the cicones - lotus eaters - Polyphemus -

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What happens in book 10?

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More Odysseus story
Aeolius/wind - laestregonian giants - circes island

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What happens in book 11?

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Odysseus in underworld - warned to never eat helios cattle
Back in present asks to go home - Phaeacians agree if he tells them more of his joinery

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What happens in book 12?

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Back on circes island to give elpanor a burial
Circe tells him of sirens
Has to get past Scylla and Charybdis
Land on helios island
They eat the cattle while O asleep
Helios demands punishment
All his crew die
He lands on calypsos island

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13
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What happens in book 13?

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Back in the present
Poseidon is mad Odysseus is getting help home
Zeus tells him to take it out on Phaeacians

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What happens in book 14?

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O is home
Athena appears to him as a shepherd
He asks where’s she’s been all this time
She tells him what happened at home
They go to eumaus
Story of cloak

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What happens in book 15

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Back to T
Athena warns him of suitors plan to kill him
Says to go to eumaus hut
Eagle carrying goose omen

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16
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What happens in book 16?

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Eumaus life story
O reveals who he is to T

17
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What happens in book 17?

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O Returns to palace disguised as beggar
T tells P O is coming home
O meets beggars as a suitor
Antinuous throws a chair at him

18
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What happens in book 18

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Another beggar shows up
They fight (O holds back but wins)
Warns amphinimous
O yells at maid servants

19
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What happens in book 19?

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O and T hide all the weapons
O meets P she doesn’t recognise him
Euryclea recognises him
P comes up with bow contest

20
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What happens in book 20?

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Athena tells him he will be victorious
Overhears P weeping praying that she will die if O doesn’t return
Theocliminous tells of bad omens he’s seen but suitors laugh him off
T scolds suitors
Eagle with dove in talons omen

21
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What happens in book 21

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Bow contest
T nearly does but O tells him not to
All suitors fail miserably
O reveals himself to eumaus and philotius
O asks for a turn with bow - he does string it

22
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What happens in book 22

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O reveals himself
Kills Antinuous
The fight scene
Athena appears as mentor - she helps make suitors weapons not reach them
She flies up as a sparrow to watch battle

23
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What happens in book 23?

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The battle is over
Maids slaughtered
P cant believe O is home and wants to test it
Bed test
Lovers reunited

24
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What happens in book 24?

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Hermes brings suitors to land of the dead
O sees his father

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