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World Literature
Book 12
Challenge of Eurylokhos and the
Cattle
Warm up
Choose one of the following:
Option 1
How does Odysseus compare
to your idea of a hero? In
what ways is he similar or
different?
Option 2
Is Odysseus responsible, or
should he be held responsible,
for the behavior of his men?
Why or why not?
Today’s activities
1. Warm-up
2. Finish reading Book 12
3. Complete book 12 questions and book 12
discussion questions
Depictions of the Sirens in Art
Ancient Greek Pottery-480-460 BCE
Ancient Greek Sculpture-4th century BCE
John William Waterhouse, Ulysses and the Sirens, 1891
While many modern artists depict
the sirens as mermaids, Kirke
described them as “harpies,” birdlike creatures (Book 12, line 64)
Book 12 Continued
As you read, consider the following:
• What challenges does he face and what do his
actions and choices show about him?
• What choices does he have to make? Does he
make the right choices?
• Are his actions heroic?
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Odysseus faces mutiny
Each person needs to write down the answers. Use complete
sentences and rephrase the question in the answer.
• On your own finish reading Book 12 (pages 218-225)
• Answer the following questions:
1. In many ways, this challenge is very different from the rest. How is the
challenge he faces in the section with the cattle of the sun god different
from all of his other challenges?
2. How does he respond to this challenge?
3. What does this show us about him?
4. In not telling his men about Skylla, Odysseus demonstrates a more
militaristic leadership style, less of a democratic leadership style. What
is his leadership style in this section?
5. How is that style show in his actions?
6. Does he show effective leadership in this section or not? What makes
you think this?
7. How does this section also deal with the theme of temptation? What
lesson about temptation does it present?
Book 12 Discussion Questions
On the theme of temptation:
• What does The Odyssey tell us about temptation?
• How does it communicate this message? In other words, what
incidents in the text make this message stand out?
• How does this relate to other stories of temptation which we have
studied?
On the issue of Odysseus as a hero:
• Are his actions heroic? Why or why not?
• After reading this section, consider: What is Odysseus’s descent
into darkness, his lowest point? (Is it really is descent into Hades,
or is it the point at which he must order the death of some of his
men to Skylla, when his men rebel, or is it the point at which he is
crying each day on Kalypso’s beach?) What makes you think this?
Review viewing
• Land of the Dead and the Sirens
• Skylla and Kharybdis
Book 13
• Odysseus finishes his story to the Phaecians
and they decide to help him get home. He
falls asleep on the journey and they leave him
on the shore of Ithaka.
• At first he thinks that they have tricked him
and left him someplace other than his home.
Why would the author do this?
• Athena comes and helps him out, disguises
him as a beggar.
Book 14
• Odysseus sees his old servant, Eumaeus the
swineherd, still in disguise.
• Eumaeus though poor shows exceptional
hospitality, feeds him and gives Odysseus his
bed while he sleeps outside.
• This reminds us of a key theme of hospitality.
Book 15
• The suitors have a plot to kill Telemakhos
when he returns.
• Athena goes to Telemakhos, who is still in
Sparta, and tells him to head home and to
stop by the swineherds hut on his way there.
Book 16
• Telemakhos shows up and while the swineherd in
on an errand to tell Penelope that her son is back,
Athena takes away Odysseus’s disguise and
reveals his identity to his son.
• Penelope accuses the suitors of plotting to kill her
son. They totally lie and deny it all. What jerks.
• Father and son plan how to enact revenge on the
suitors.
• What will be their revenge?
Book 17
Telemakhos
• Telemakhos heads in to
town.
• Telemakhos reports to
Penelope the news that
Odysseus is still alive. See
her response on page 315.
• How does she feel about
this news?
Odysseus
• Odysseus, disguised again as a
beggar, and Eumaeus, the
swineherd, head in to town.
• On the way, Odysseus is
insulted by a goatherd.
• Read page 317, lines 298-305.
How does Odysseus respond?
Is this a change in Odysseus or
not? How so?
• Odysseus’s old dog (page 319320) So sad.
• Odysseus arrives back at his
hall finally.
Book 18
• A regular beggar at Odysseus’s hall challenges
Odysseus to a fight.
• Odysseus tries to not show is full strength so
he barely punches the man, but even holding
back he is so strong that he breaks the man’s
jaw.
• Athena gives Penelope an image boost, and
she walks in and shows hospitality to
Odysseus, still disguised as a beggar.
Book 19
• Father and son hide all the armor and weapons from
the hall to keep them away from the suitors.
• Penelope and “the beggar” (Odysseus) talk
• “The beggar” says that he knows that Odysseus is still
alive and describes his clothes.
• One of Penelope’s maids washes “the beggars” feet
and recognizes a scar on Odysseus’s knee. She was his
nanny when he was a child. He asks her to keep his
secret.
• Penelope mentions that she will set a challenge the
next day for the suitors and whomever wins will be the
one she marries.
Book 20
• Odysseus sleeps and dreams.