Gorgon's
head on a silver coin of Naples
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to
use image granted
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F11:
CLA215, Mythology:
Review for Exam 4
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The god Apollo
on a gold coin of Syracuse
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of Edgar
L. Owen, #3803
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Heroic Myths:
- Odysseus
& the Underworld: Powell, Chapter 12 (11 in 6th-4th
editions):
- Key Names
and terms: Tiresias, Achilles, Anticlea
- sample questions at his
web site: click
here
- Jason:
Powell, Chapter 19 (18 in ...):
- Key Names & Terms:
Pelias, Jason, Chiron, Argo, Lemnos, Phineus, Aeëtes,
Medea, Apsyrtus, Creon
- The
Trojan War: The House of Atreus; The Anger of Achilles:
Powell, Chapter 20 (19 in ...):
- Key Names & Terms:
Atreus, Pelops, Oenomaus, Hippodamia, Thyestes, Aegisthus,
Menelaus, Agamemnon, Tyndareus, Leda, Polydeuces, Castor,
Helen, Clytemnestra, Peleus, Ajax, Hecabe, Aulis,
Telemachus, Palamedes, Calchas, Philoctetes, Chryseis,
Briseis, Andromache
- sample questions at his
web site: click
here
- The
Trojan War: The fall of Troy; The Return of Agamemnon:
Powell, Chapter 21 (20 in ...):
- New Key Names & Terms:
Penthesilea, Neoptomenus, Laocoon, Polyxena, Orestes,
Electra, Furies, Eumenides
- sample questions at his
web site: click
here
- The
Return of Odysseus: Powell, Chapter 22 (21 in ...):
- Key Names & Terms:
Odysseus, Lotus Eaters, Cyclopes, Polyphemus, Aeolus,
Laestrygonians, Sirens, Charybdis, Scylla, Calypso,
Phaeacians, Nausicaa, Eumaeus, Eurycleia, Telemachus,
Penelope, Athena, Poseidon, Zeus, Aegisthus
- sample questions at his
web site: click
here
- Oh, Brother, Where art
thou?, the movie:
- key names & terms:
Everett (Ulysses), Pete, Delmar, Big Dan T, Pappy O'Daniel
(Menelaus), Homer Stokes, Tommy, "Baby Face" George
Nelson, Penny, Sirens, the sheriff
- the script of the
movie (click
here)
Possible Essay Question:
1. Hospitality is an
important theme of both the Odyssey
and the movie. Excluding the Cyclops scenes in both, discuss
for the Odyssey and
the movie. As evidence for the Odyssey use Powell's chapter 22 (7th
edition).
2. "Every hero has a weakness." What are
Odysseus' and Everett's weaknesses and how do they play similar
roles in both their lives? For evidence, use Powell's chapter 22
(7th edit) and the movie.
3. Compare Penny in
the movie with Medea and/or Clytemnestra in Powell's chapters 19
and 21.
4. Heroic Code:
Evaluate Waldrip and Everett by the measure of a true Homeric
hero as covered in class. Based on your evaluation who is the
greater hero? Make sure you cover the key terms: kleos, arete,
time, aidos. Or evaluate one of the two listed above from the
movie and one of the following: Jason, Orestes, Agamemnon,
Hector, Odysseus (use Powell's text for them).
5. Religion: In what
ways does the governor in the movie play a similar role to that
of Athena in the Odyssey
(Powell, ch 22) or Apollo & Athena in the Oresteia (Powell, ch 21).