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Book 12: Sea Perils and Defeat

By Melanie Cheung, Michael Li and David Qi

Themes

1. Not succumbing to temptation.

2. Some things just can't be overcome.

Bibliography

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Motifs

Literary Analysis

Greed

Temptations

Questions

Challenges

Literary Devices

Personification

"When the young dawn with her finger tips of rose..." (12.9)

1.Why do you think Odysseus decided to listen to the Seirênês anyways? What does this tell us about the nature of humans?

2.Why do you think Zeus starts a storm to trap the humans on the island in the first place? What do you think was his intention?

3.The crew was told by Eurýlokhos to disobey Odysseus and to slaughter the cattle whilst Odysseus was sleeping, even though they were specifically told not to. If you were a member of the crew, what would you do and why?

Epithet

"Overlord of High Noon" (12.159)

Simile

"...are borne 6 heads like nightmares of ferocity"(12.109)

Vocabulary

Literary Analysis (continued)

lugger- a small sailing ship with one or two masts

libation- a drink poured out as an offering to a deity

gullet- the passage where food travels from the mouth to the stomach

malestrom- a powerful whirlpool

“Must you have battle in your heart forever?

The bloody toil of combat? Old contender

Will you not yield to the immortal gods?” (12.136-138) -Kirkê

“Are you flesh and blood, Odysseus, to endure

More than a man can? Do you never tire?

God, look at you, iron is what you’re made of" (12.358-360)-Eurýlokhos

Literary Analysis

Characters

Synopsis

Odysseus

Eurýlokhos

Kirkê

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