Friday, February 24, 2012

Comparison Studies Lesson 5 Part D: Odysseus and Ajax


Lesson Five D: Odysseus and Ajax

Materials needed: With Rough Gods and access to linked documents

Read and paraphrase the competition between Odysseus and Ajax for the armor of Achilles from Ovid's Metamorphoses, book 13, lines 1-398.

Read and paraphrase Odysseus's encounter with the shade of Ajax in Hades from The Odysseybook 11, lines 541-567 (lines 697-732).

Re-read and paraphrase "Odysseus & Ajax."

Answer the following questions: 

5: How does the low comedy of Palmer's poem square with the Odysseus/Ulysses presented by Ovid and Homer? 

6: How does it fit with the Odysseus presented in the other four Odysseus poems of With Rough Gods

7: When would the conversation in With Rough Gods between Odysseus and Ajax take place? Why?

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