Comparison Studies Lesson 5 Part E: The End of Odysseus

Lesson Five E: The End of Odysseus

Materials needed: With Rough Gods and access to linked documents

Read and paraphrase Dante's encounter with Ulysses from The Inferno, Canto 26, lines 90-142.

Read and paraphrase Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses".

Re-read and paraphrase "Odysseus & Telemachus" 

Answer the following questions:

8: How has Odysseus/Ulysses changed from his presentation by Homer through Ovid, Dante, Tennyson, and Palmer?

9: Whose Odysseys/Ulysses do you prefer and why?

10: What would a new poem, song, or story with Odysseus as the narrator be like? Create it.