Monday, March 21, 2011

Finish Reading The First Four Books, then . . .



        Homer uses very few epithets for
      Telemachus in "The Telemachy."
      Write five of your own epithets
      for Telemachus.
         SEE IF NOW YOU CAN IDENTIFY THESE: 
          far seeing__________
         breaker of horses____________
         rose-red fingered_____________
         quick-witted___________
         wary and reserved_________
         bright-eyed___________
         Icarus' daughter _____________
         warlord dear to Zeus____________  
           shameless whore ____________ 
         earth shaker___________
         bard of Ithaca ______________
         red-haired____________
         flashing steel grey-eyed___________
         noble charioteer ___________
         Menelaus’ wife__________
         Laertes' son____________
         Agamemnon’s son__ __________
         Clytemnestra’s lover ____________
         Agisthesis’ murderer ____________
         Agamemnon’s brother___________
   .           a prophetess of doom____________
                    visits Ithaca and advises Telemachus__________
   2          accompanies Telemachus to Sparta___________
               Odysseus’ nursemaid ____________
                glancing eyed_______________    

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