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 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 Odyssey, book 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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