Comparison Studies Lesson 5 Part B: The Odysseus of The Iliad

Lesson Five B: The Odysseus of The Iliad

Materials needed: With Rough Gods and access to linked documents.

Read and paraphrase Odysseus's speech to Achilles from The Iliad, book 9, lines 225-306 (lines 273-382 in the linked translation).

Re-read and paraphrase "Odysseus & Ajax" and "Odysseus & Agamemnon" from With Rough Gods.

Answer the following question:

2: What are the similarities and differences between the Odysseus of "Odysseus & Ajax" and "Odysseus & Agamemnon" and that of the Odysseus presented by Homer in The Iliad? Why do you think Palmer would say these similarities and differences exist?