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8/10 No mortal man could scale (the cliffs) … so much as land there, not with twenty hands and feet, so sheer the cliffs are as of polished stone… great Odysseus, your master bowman, shooting from the deck, would come short of the cave mouth with his shaft (bow and arrow); but that is the den of Scylla… 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… six heads like nightmares of ferocity, with triple … rows of fangs and deep gullets of black death. Half her length, she sways her heads in air… hunting the sea around …for dolphins, dogfish…. And no ship’s company can claim to have passed her without loss and grief; she takes, from every ship, one man…
1. Who can’t
climb the cliff? Why?
2. What could
Odysseus not do?
3. Why is there
no joy in seeing Scylla?
4. How are her
legs?
5. Describe her
necks.
6. How do ships
suffer when they pass Scylla’s cave?
8/11 He ceased, and I replied: Unhappy spirit, I promise you
the barrow and the burial. So we conversed… at a distance, with my long
sword between, guarding the blood, while the faint image of the lad (the boy)
spoke on. Now came the soul of … my mother, daughter of Autolycus, dead now,
though living still when I took ship for holy Troy. Seeing this ghost I
grieved, but held her off, through pang on pang of tears, till I should know
the presence of Tiresias.
Soon from the dark that prince of Thebes came forward
bearing a golden staff; and he addressed me: Son of Laertes and the gods
of old, Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways, why leave the blazing sun…,
to see the cold dead and the joyless region? Stand clear, put up your sword;
let me but taste of blood, I shall speak true. At this I stepped aside,
and … let my long sword ring home to the pommel silver, as he bent down
to the sombre blood.
1. What was Odysseus
doing when he talked to the boy?
2. Who came to speak
to him next?
3. What did Odysseus
do when he saw his mother?
4. Who was Odysseus
waiting for? What did the person he was waiting for bring?
5. What are Odysseus’
nicknames?
6. What id Odysseus
asked?
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