week 7

A. Quiz

1

According to legend, in what sense was Homer deficient?

A.    Touch

B.    Taste

C.    Hearing

D.    Sight

2

What is the Greek term for hospitality?

A.    Warrior Princess

B.    Xenia

C.    Dactlyic

D.    Nostos

3

What immortal is Odysseus' greatest ally?

A.       Zeus

B.       Athena

C.       Poseidon

D.       Hermes

4

What immortal is Odysseus' greatest nemesis?

A.       Poseidon

B.       Zeus

C.       Athena

D.       Hermes

5

Which immortal rules over the other gods?

A.       Poseidon

B.       Zeus

C.       Athena

D.       Hermes

6

What name does Odysseus first give to Polyphemus?

A.       He does not give him a name

B.       No one

C.       Nothing

D.       Nobody

7

Which immortal imprisons Odysseus on her island for eight years?

A.       Penelope

B.       Circe

C.       Athena

D.       Calypso

8

How did Penelope try to trick the suitors at first by weaving a shroud?

A.       She worked on it very slowly

B.       She took on other projects as well

C.       She did a shoddy job of weaving

D.       She unwound the shroud each night

9

What animals are Odysseus' men turned into by Circe?

A.       Snakes

B.       Rabbits

C.       Pigs

D.       Horses

10

Which younger character most likely has a crush on Odysseus?

A.       Nausicaa

B.       Telemachus' girlfriend

C.       Melantho

D.       Athena

11

Which male servant is the least faithful to Odysseus?

A.       Philoitios

B.       Eumaeus

C.       Melanthius

D.       Mentor

12

Which female servant is the least faithful to Odysseus?

A.       Nausicaa

B.       Eurykleia

C.       Melantho

D.       Pilates

13

Which suitor dies first?

A.       Antinous

B.       Amphinomos

C.       Agelaos

D.       Eurymakhos

14

Which suitor is the most rational?

A.       Amphinomos

B.       Agelaos

C.       Antinoos

D.       Eurymakhos

15

Which suitor is the most hotheaded?

A.       Eurymakhos

B.       Amphinomos

C.       Antinous

D.       Agelaos

16

How does Eurykleia identify Odysseus?

A.       By his eyes

B.       By his scar

C.       By his hair

D.       By his teeth

17

How does Odysseus prove his identity to Penelope?

A.       By a private joke

B.       By his knowledge of their bed

C.       By his knowledge of her birthmark

D.       By his knowledge of her ancestry

18

What does Odysseus disguise himself as in the palace?

A.       A bard

B.       A salesman

C.       A beggar

D.       A king

19

What is Odysseus frequently compared to in omens and dreams?

A.       A shark

B.       A bird of prey

C.       A lion

D.       A rabbit

20

Who is Odysseus' father?

A.       Agamemnon

B.       Achilles

C.       Telemachus

D.       Laertes

21

What is the descriptive tag frequently attached to a character's name called (i.e., "gray-eyed Athena")?

A.       Homeric slang

B.       Homeric identification

C.       Homeric epithet

D.       Homeric curse

22

What is the comparative description frequently attached to a natural phenomenon (i.e., "the wine-dark sea") called?

A.       Homeric comparison

B.       Homeric simile

C.       Homeric definition

D.       Homeric metaphor

23

How many "acts," or distinct, major, and equal sections of narrative, is The Odyssey broken into?

A.       Three

B.       Two

C.       One

D.       Four

24

How did Homer originally convey the poem to others?

A.       Through lectures

B.       Through song

C.       Through publication

D.       Through spoken word

25

What rhythm and meter was The Odyssey originally composed in?

A.       Blank verse

B.       Dactylic hexameter

C.       Iambic pentameter

D.       Anapestic tetrameter

B. Virgil

Virgil (70 B.C-19 B.C), regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, the Aeneid (written about 29 B.C.E), which had taken its literary model from Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.

C. The Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas's wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or national epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy.