2023: A Space Odyssey

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Group 7 – Image Reading – Telemachus

This picture displays Odysseus and Telemachus fighting the suitors. Odysseus takes on many suitors, leading his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus, to worry about his survival. This picture displays the action in Book 20 of the Odyssey; however, before the...

Group 7-Close Reading-Penelope

In Book 1 of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson, Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, displays great acts of leadership. During Book 1, we are introduced to Telemachus, son of Penelope and Odysseus. Him and his mother are currently alone fending for their kingdom in Ithaca while...

Group 7-Close Reading-Athena

The passage uprooted from Emily Wilson’s restatement of Homer’s “The Odyssey” captures a moment where the goddess Athena makes a fervent appeal to her fellow gods on behalf of the beleaguered hero, Odysseus, and his son, Telemachus. In this...

Group 7 – Close Reading – Telemachus

In Book 1 of The Odyssey by Emily Willson, Athena, the daughter of Zeus and the goddess of wisdom and warfare, first meets Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, to encourage him on a journey to find his father and retrieve advice on ways to expel the suitors. She disguised...