Response Paper: Odysseus' Trip To Hades
There are 3 response papers that will be an important part of your grade; these response papers will be given a grade out of 10 points. For each paper you will need to answer a question comprehensively (you will have a choice of 4 questions) about materials and concepts you learned about in the lecture or from your reading assignments.
The paper should be a minimum of 2 pages and a maximum of 3 pages long. You will need to submit your paper on Canvas before the given deadline. Required format: 12-pt Times New Roman, double (2) interlinear space, 1” Normal margins. You also should include your first and your last name on the top of the first page of the paper. Deadline: Sunday September 15 11:59 p.m.
These are the topic choices for your first response paper.
1. At the heart of the poem is the theme of xenia, hospitality, correctly and incorrectly practiced. Choose one scene of hospitality and outline its character as a typical or atypical scene of hospitality; what does it tell us about the characters involved?
2. The simile is a figure of speech that can serve a number of purposes: it can make a description more vivid or impressive, more understandable, more sympathetic. Choose any one simile in the books of the Odyssey that you've read and discuss the simile in detail both in itself and in its context.
3. The Nekuia (Odysseus' trip to the underworld in Odyssey 11) includes several scenes of recognition, both Odysseus of other figures and other figures of Odysseus. Choose any one such scene of recognition (Gr. anagnorisis) and discuss its role in the poem. What does this scene tell us about Odysseus? about the other figure?
4. In several situations, one of the few resources left to Odysseus is his sexual potential. Take any one of these situations and discuss how Odysseus either uses, or does not use, his sexuality to achieve an end. What does this say for Odysseus' world? for Odysseus?
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