Tuesday, January 23, 2007
1st Period Test
Odyssey Test- Blog This!
Cut and paste each question and answer underneath the prompt.
1. What have you learned about Greek culture, values, and religion? Address the roles of women and men, honor and virtues, gods and goddesses, etc. (200 words). What I learned about Greek culture is that they are very patriotic. I have learned that they have a god for everything like Poseidon was the god of water, Helios was the god of sun, Athena the one most talked about in the movie is the goddess of wisdom, and Zeus is the king of all gods and husband of Hera. Virtues of men and women are that the women would wash clothes, knit pictures, take care of the house, and watch the children on a daily bases. Were the men would go out to war and support their country and fight just like in the odyssey. The women would stay home and the men would fight, the elders did not go and fight they would stay home with the few soldiers and women that were there. Unlike society today the women go out and work just like the men in most cases. I also learned that my culture and religion is different from their religion and culture just like the way we live.
2. What resonated with you in reading about Odysseus’ adventures? Why? (100 words). What I came to conclusions was that Odysseus really loved his country, his son, and his wife. He chose to go to war he was a real strong man that did bad things but still tried to find a way to get home. Everything that he did worked out from sleeping with girls, going to hell, and listening to what the gods told him to do. He lost all of his men sailed by himself for the next couple of years. Lost everything he had except his faith to get back to Ithaca. He and Poseidon came to an agreement and Odysseus floated back to Ithaca. He saw his wife but she did not recognize him until he shot the arrow through the rings and defeated all the suitors with his son.
3. This epic poem is dated nearly 3000 years ago, why is it still relevant? (100 words). The poem is still relevant today because it has lots of great facts and what we call a classic. It is dealing with stuff in every day life. Such as people: encouraging and being heroes. Being a hero is just not rescuing somebody it is also encouraging somebody. That is why it is still read today and it is also dealing with things in everyday life. Also from other books, that he wrote.
Short Answers-
Answer in complete sentences. Cut and paste each question and answer underneath the prompt.
4. How would you characterize the narrator, the fictive "Homer" whose voice we imagine as singing the verses of the Odyssey? I would characterize him as a man who liked the Greek history especially the gods. People do not know if he is real or not. They say he was a blind man who wrote books one of them, which I am reading, called the Odyssey.
5. What kinds of behavior are treated as contemptible in the Odyssey? When the suitors were over King Odysseus house they fought, drank, ate sloppy, and hardly took showers.
6. How does the poem represent mortal women? Since Penelope is the most important woman in the Odyssey, what qualities does she possess, and how does she respond to the troubles she faces? (Some of the other women are of note, too-Eurycleia the serving woman, the faithless maidservants, Nausicaa the Phaeacian princess, and Helen of Sparta, Menelaus' queen, whose elopement with Prince Paris sparked the Trojan War.) It represents mortal women because it has Penelope and her servants they grow up and die unlike the goddesses which are alive forever. She was faithful to her husband even with the men trying to get with her. So she is tempted but never did anything.
7.How do Homer's gods think and behave? How do their actions and motivations differ from the conception of god in other religions of which you have knowledge? What role do the Homeric gods play in human affairs, and what is the responsibility of humans with respect to those gods? Some of the gods want to keep Odysseus on their island and others want to help him. They have lots of gods in which some gods want to keep him but my god would not want to keep him he would want to help him.
Odyssey Test- Blog This!
Cut and paste each question and answer underneath the prompt.
1. What have you learned about Greek culture, values, and religion? Address the roles of women and men, honor and virtues, gods and goddesses, etc. (200 words). What I learned about Greek culture is that they are very patriotic. I have learned that they have a god for everything like Poseidon was the god of water, Helios was the god of sun, Athena the one most talked about in the movie is the goddess of wisdom, and Zeus is the king of all gods and husband of Hera. Virtues of men and women are that the women would wash clothes, knit pictures, take care of the house, and watch the children on a daily bases. Were the men would go out to war and support their country and fight just like in the odyssey. The women would stay home and the men would fight, the elders did not go and fight they would stay home with the few soldiers and women that were there. Unlike society today the women go out and work just like the men in most cases. I also learned that my culture and religion is different from their religion and culture just like the way we live.
2. What resonated with you in reading about Odysseus’ adventures? Why? (100 words). What I came to conclusions was that Odysseus really loved his country, his son, and his wife. He chose to go to war he was a real strong man that did bad things but still tried to find a way to get home. Everything that he did worked out from sleeping with girls, going to hell, and listening to what the gods told him to do. He lost all of his men sailed by himself for the next couple of years. Lost everything he had except his faith to get back to Ithaca. He and Poseidon came to an agreement and Odysseus floated back to Ithaca. He saw his wife but she did not recognize him until he shot the arrow through the rings and defeated all the suitors with his son.
3. This epic poem is dated nearly 3000 years ago, why is it still relevant? (100 words). The poem is still relevant today because it has lots of great facts and what we call a classic. It is dealing with stuff in every day life. Such as people: encouraging and being heroes. Being a hero is just not rescuing somebody it is also encouraging somebody. That is why it is still read today and it is also dealing with things in everyday life. Also from other books, that he wrote.
Short Answers-
Answer in complete sentences. Cut and paste each question and answer underneath the prompt.
4. How would you characterize the narrator, the fictive "Homer" whose voice we imagine as singing the verses of the Odyssey? I would characterize him as a man who liked the Greek history especially the gods. People do not know if he is real or not. They say he was a blind man who wrote books one of them, which I am reading, called the Odyssey.
5. What kinds of behavior are treated as contemptible in the Odyssey? When the suitors were over King Odysseus house they fought, drank, ate sloppy, and hardly took showers.
6. How does the poem represent mortal women? Since Penelope is the most important woman in the Odyssey, what qualities does she possess, and how does she respond to the troubles she faces? (Some of the other women are of note, too-Eurycleia the serving woman, the faithless maidservants, Nausicaa the Phaeacian princess, and Helen of Sparta, Menelaus' queen, whose elopement with Prince Paris sparked the Trojan War.) It represents mortal women because it has Penelope and her servants they grow up and die unlike the goddesses which are alive forever. She was faithful to her husband even with the men trying to get with her. So she is tempted but never did anything.
7.How do Homer's gods think and behave? How do their actions and motivations differ from the conception of god in other religions of which you have knowledge? What role do the Homeric gods play in human affairs, and what is the responsibility of humans with respect to those gods? Some of the gods want to keep Odysseus on their island and others want to help him. They have lots of gods in which some gods want to keep him but my god would not want to keep him he would want to help him.
# posted by kingburns @ 2:02 PM 
