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odyssey part 2 notecards
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10th Grade
03/14/2012

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promontory
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peak of high land jutting out into water
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ardor
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emotional warmth, passion
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maelstrom
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a violent whirlpool
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ruddy
Definition
having a reddish coler
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sweep
Definition
range, scope, or area covered by something
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candor
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honesty, directness
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abroad-
Definition
outside one's own country
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carraige
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posture, bearing
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suppliant
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a person who makes a humble request
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to suffice
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to be enough
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maudlin
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to be sentimental
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heed
Definition
close attention
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courier
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messenger
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to long for
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to want very much
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heft
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weight, heaviness
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smote
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to strink or hit hard
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adorn
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to decorate
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wiliest
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most sly, sneakiest, craftiest
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revelry
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noisy merry making
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glowered
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scowled, stared angrily
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aloft
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high up in the air
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lopped
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chopped off or cut
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aloof
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resigned, removed, distant
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pliant
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easily bent
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wheedling
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coaxing, persuading by flattering
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girth
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circumfrence, the distance around
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skirmish
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a brief fight
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Thrinakia
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island where sun god keeps his cows
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Eurylochus
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tempted O's men to eat the sun god's cows
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Philoeteus
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servant of O's
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Eumaeus
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O's most faithful servant
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Antinuous
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one of Penelope's most rude & arrogant suitors
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Teiresias
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famous blind prophet from Thebes ( sees O in the underworld )
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Scylla
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female monster w/ 6 serpent heads & 3 rows of teeth on each head
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Cyclops
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Polyphemus- cyclops who was a shepherd, live in cave, was blinded in his 1 eye by Odysseus
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Cicones
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from SW island of Thrace and attacked O & his men
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Charybdis
Definition
maelstrom monster who sucked in whirlpool of water & spit it back up
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Aeaea
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island where Cerces lived
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Telemachus
Definition
O's son
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Penelope
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O's faithful wife
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Eurycleia
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O's nurse
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Sirens
Definition
monsters whose beautiful voices led sailors to steer their ships into the rocks
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Phaecia
Definition
home of king Alcinous & his daughter Nausica
they were great ship builders & traders & they brought O home to Ithaca
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Lotus Eaters
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tricked O's men into eating the Lotus plant so they would forget about going home to Ithaca
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Erebus
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dark pit in the Underworld where the dead rise
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Circe
Definition
goddess who turned O's men into pigs
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Calypso
Definition
nymph who keeps O on her island for 7 years
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Alcinous
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King of Phaecia
father of Nausica
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Achaeans/ Argives
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name for the Greeks who went to fight in Troy `
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3 signs by which O is recognized
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1) his scar from the boar
2) his knowledge of the wedding bed
3) his ability to string the bow
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2 crucial elements of O's attack plan on the suitors
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secrecy & surprise
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3 ironic instances when O comes home
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1) king disguised as beggar
2) Emaeus is more of a father to Telemachus & O watches them greet eachother as father & son
3) O doenst recognize his homeland
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