The Odyssey Books IX - XII

1. The Odyssey Books IX - XII

2. JEOPARDY OBJECTION! OUT of ORDER HELPFUL ADVICE MONSTERS The ME in TEAM 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50

3. Identify the speaker and the episode: ‘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. Here we all are, half dead with weariness, falling asleep over the oars, and you say “No landing”

4. Identify the speaker and episode: ‘Take yourself out of this island, creeping thing—no law, no wisdom, lays it on me now to help a man the blessed gods detest—out! Your voyage here was cursed by heaven!’

5. Identify the speaker and the episode: ‘Where now, poor remnants? is it devil’s work you long for? Will you go to [her] hall? Swine, wolves, and lions she will make us all… Remember those the Kyklops held, remember our shipmates who made that visit with Odysseus! The daring man! They died for his foolishness!’

6. Identify the speaker and episode: ‘Must you have battle in your heart forever? The bloody toil of combat? Old contender, will you not yield to the immortal gods? That nightmare cannot die, being eternal evil itself—horror, and pain, and chaos; there is no fighting her, no power can fight her, all that avails is flight.

7. Identify the speaker and episode: ‘Comrades,’ he said, ‘You’ve gone through everything; listen to what I say. All deaths are hateful to us, mortal wretches, but famine is the most pitiful, the worst end that a man can come to. Will you fight it?

8. Aiolos, Kikones, Phaiakians,Underworld

9. Kalypso, Lotus Eaters, Seirenes, Skylla

10. Kalypso, Kyklops, Lotus Eaters, Underworld

11. Aiolos, Kirke Kyklops, Lotus Eaters Phaiakians, Seirenes, Skylla

12. Aiolos, Kikones Kirke, Laistrygonês Lotus Eaters, Phaiakians, Skylla

13. ‘Hearts of oak, did you go down alive into the homes of Death? One visit finishes all men but yourselves, twice mortal! Come, here is meat and wine, enjoy your feasting for one whole day; and in the dawn tomorrow you shall put out to sea. Sailing directions, landmarks, perils, I shall sketch for you, to keep you from being caught by land or water in some black sack of trouble.’

14. Land your ship in secret on your island; give no warning. The day of faithful wives is gone forever.

15. Halt, and implant your smooth oar in the turf and make fair sacrifice to Lord Poseidon: a ram, a bull, a great buck boar; turn back, and carry out pure hekatombs at home to all wide heaven’s lords, the undying gods, to each in order. Then a seaborne death soft as this hand of mist will come upon you when you are wearied out with rich old age, your country folk in blessed peace around you.

16. ‘Captain, shake off this trance, and think of home— if home indeed awaits us, if we shall ever see your own well-timbered hall on Ithaka.’

17. but this great herb with holy force will keep your mind and senses clear: when she turns cruel, coming near with her long stick to whip you out of doors, then let your cutting blade appear…

18. By heaven! when she vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises.

19. Neither reply nor pity came from him, but in one stride he clutched at my companions and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor. Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion—

20. she is huge and monstrous. God or man, no one could look on her in joy. Her legs— and there are twelve—are like great tentacles, unjointed, and upon her serpent necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity, with triple serried rows of fangs and deep gullets of black death.

21. He left his rams and he-goats in the yard outside, and swung high overhead a slab of solid rock to close the cave.

22. [He] came to drink their blood. He seized one man and tore him on the spot, making a meal of him; the other two leaped out of doors and ran to join the ships. Behind, he raised the whole tribe howling,

23. ‘Friends, have we never been in danger before this? More fearsome, is it now, than when the Kyklops penned us in his cave? What power he had! Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits to find a way out for us? …Heads up, lads! We must obey the orders as I give them. Get the oarshafts in your hands, and lay back hard on your benches; hit these breaking seas.

24. if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laërtês’ son, whose home’s on Ithaka!’

25. ‘It never fails. He’s welcome everywhere: hail to the captain when he goes ashore! He brought along so many presents, plunder out of Troy, that’s it. How about ourselves— his shipmates all the way? Nigh home we are with empty hands…. I say we ought to crack that bag, there’s gold and silver, plenty, in that bag!’

26. she urged that I alone should listen to their song. Therefore you are to tie me up, tight as a splint, erect along the mast, lashed to the mast, and if I shout and beg to be untied, take more turns of the rope to muff le me.’

27. Now when the rest said ‘Aye’ to this, I saw the power of destiny devising ill. Sharply I answered, without hesitation: ‘Eurylokhos, they are with you to a man. I am alone, outmatched.