time and kleos

Question 1

KLEOS IN book 9

Answer 1

ody blinds polyp shows his kleos.
also violence is an act of honour as vengeance, is customary and just

Question 2

time in book12

Answer 2

ody returns to circe’s island to bury elpenor = honours his life and ody is piously dutiful and therefore honourable

Question 3

book 7 honour of ody

Answer 3

alcinous is impressed bu how ody treats nausicaa on the beach

Question 4

negatives of ody’s kleos

Answer 4

ody is so focused on kleos that he faces scylla, charybdis, sirens, pillages cicones, seeks polyph which all cost him several men.

Question 5

ody reknowned kleos proven bk 22

Answer 5

“fear drained the colour from their cheeks”
they also beg for mercy in bk 23 at anagnorisis.
sensory lang illustrates how ody’s reputation is so strong w kleos, they fear

Question 6

bad honour from suitors quotes

Answer 6

“how disgraceful, so the cowards want to creep into the brave man’s bed” ~ menelaus
“in all their brutal pride”
“in their usual high and mighty way”
“too cowardly to present themselves at her father’s house” = they dont have sufficient honour or reputation to win penelope + wont try to win her honourably

Question 7

cyclopes not honourable

Answer 7

they dont conform to civilisation and are barbaric

“each man is lawgiver to his own children and women”
= anarchy, links to homer’s interest in promoting civilisation

Question 8

ody laments at sea death

Answer 8

“i should at least have had my burial rites and the achaeans would have spread my fame abroad”
= laments at possibility of an ignoble death at sea, contrasted wiht a glorious death at troy. kleos is tied to heroic death and collective rememberance.

Question 9

bk 9 kleos of ody - what he says to polyp before

Answer 9

“the whole world talks of my strategems, and my fame has reached the heavens”
= introduces himself by assrting his identity, lineage and his reputation = his fame is universal and divinely recognised.