Literary Luminary

Name: _Alberto Oxales III ____________

Text: ________________________________
Date: ________________________________
Books: __________1-4______________________

Literary Luminary: The Odyssey features a powerful array of epithets and figures
of speech. Your job is: (a) to prepare a summary of the reading. Make a quick statement
to discuss the UNIVERSAL TRUTH found in the text; (b) to identify “Golden Lines”—or
special passages in the text (interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important
sections). You will also ponder on how certain lines in the text are further illuminated in
succeeding scenes. Decide which passages or paragraphs are worth remembering, and
indicate how you plan to present them: (a) You can read the passages aloud yourself, (b)
ask someone else to read them, or (c) read them together as a group. Make sure to
discuss your analysis of the selected text.

Quick Statement: What, for you, is the UNIVERSAL TRUTH in the text?
Compare this with others’.
The universal truth is that a house left without a man in charge
becomes troubled and experiences great turmoil

GOLDEN LINES Book Significance and

Analysis

Telemachus
spoke "Shameless 1 Telemachus' first
and insolent speech against
suitors . . . the suitors
. . . if on the controversial
other hand you
chose to continue
sponging on one
man, heaven help
me, but Zeus
shall reckon on
you full, and
when you fall in
my father's
house, there will
be no one to
avenge you.

Polybus,
answered "it 1
rests with heaven Informative
on who will be
chief among us"

Euryclea loved
him more than 1 surprising
anyone in the
house did

Zeus said "How important

can I forget 1
Odysseus when
there is no more
capable man on
this earth?"
Telemachus: " . .
No estate can
stand such 2 controversial
recklessness; we
now have no
Odysseus to keep
harm from our
doors, and I
cannot hold my
own against
them"

Telemachus: "I
am shocked at 2
the way you all
sit still without confusing
even trying to
stop the
scandalous
goings-on"
"you are many
and they are few"

Nestor said "I 3

fought alongside
your father" Important

Telemachus to 4
Peisistratos: "My informative
dear friend, can you
believe you eyes?-
The murmuring hall,
how luminous it is
with bronze gold,
amber, silver, and
ivory!
This is the way the
court of Zeus must
be,
inside, upon
Olympos. What
wonder!"

"His son, in my
house! How I loved 4 relevant
the man,/ And how
he fought through
hardship for my
sake!"

Possible Reasons for Picking a Passage:

funny controversial important

surprising
confusing informative

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