THEME SUBJECTS

One of Ulysses’s Adventures
An Escape from the Sea
A Picnic on the Shore
The Character of Nausicaae
My Idea of a Princess
The Life of a Greek Woman
A Group of Girls
The Character of Odysseus
Shipwrecked
A Beautiful Building
Along the Shore
Among Strangers
A Garden
A Story from the Odyssey
Odysseus at the House of Alcinoues
The Lady of the House
The Greek Warrior
The Stranger
Why I Wish to Study Greek

SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

=A Story from the Odyssey=:—­Read, in a translation of the Odyssey, a story of Odysseus, and tell it in your own words.  The following stories are appropriate:  The Departure from Calypso’s Island, Book V; The Cyclops Polyphemus, Book IX; The Palace of Circe, Book X; The Land of the Dead, Book XI; Scylla and Charybdis, Book XII; The Swineherd, Book XIV; The Trial of the Bow, Book XXI; The Slaughter of the Suitors, Book XXII.

After you have chosen a story, read it through several times, to fix the details in your mind.  Lay the book aside, and write the story simply, but as vividly as possible.

=The Stranger=:—­Explain the circumstances under which the stranger appears.  Are people startled at seeing him (or her)?  Describe him.  Is he bewildered?  Does he ask directions?  Does he ask help?  Quote his words directly.  How are his remarks received?  Are people afraid of him? or do they make sport of him? or do they receive him kindly?  Who aids him?  Tell what he does and what becomes of him.  Quote what is said of him after he is gone.

Perhaps you will like to tell the story of Ulysses’s arrival among the Phaeacians, giving it a modern setting, and using modern names.

=Odysseus at the House of Alcinoues=:—­Without reading Book VII of the Odyssey, write what you imagine to be the conversation between Alcinoues (or Arete) and Odysseus, when the shipwrecked hero enters the palace.

COLLATERAL READINGS

The Odyssey George Herbert Palmer (Trans.)
The Odyssey of Homer (prose translation) Butcher and Lang
The Iliad of Homer Lang, Leaf, and Myers
The Odyssey (translation in verse) William Cullen Bryant
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls A.J.  Church
The Story of the Odyssey " " "
Greek Song and Story " " "
The Adventures of Odysseus Marvin, Mayor, and Stawell
Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne
Home Life of the Ancient Greeks H. Bluemner (trans, by A.
          
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Classic Myths (chapter 27) C.M.