The Odyssey Part 5 GA-GSE Biology A-CR 17-18

A value is important to a society because it is

Which excerpt from The Odyssey best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society?

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. "Stranger, you are no longer what you were just now! Your cloak is new; even your skin! You are one of the gods who rule the sweep of heaven! Be kind to us, we'll make you fair oblation and gifts of hammered gold. Have mercy on us!"

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. Reaching the gate, Odysseus and the forester halted and stood outside, for harp notes came around them rippling on the air as Phemios picked out a song. Odysseus caught his companion's arm and said: "My friend, here is the beautiful place—who could mistake it?"

Which is a common symbol of love and commitment?

Which Greek values are found in The Odyssey? Check all that apply.

Rachel is making predictions about The Odyssey as she reads this excerpt. So she described it, sitting in her chamber among her maids—while her true lord was eating. Then she called in the forester and said: "Go to that man on my behalf, Eumaeus, and send him here, so I can greet and question him. Abroad in the great world, he may have heard rumors about Odysseus—may have known him!" Rachel makes the prediction that Penelope will discover the stranger's true identity. Which detail best supports her prediction?

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. Then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father Telemachus began to weep. Salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestings farmers take before they fly This excerpt is an example of which value important to ancient Greek society?

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. "Stranger, you are no longer what you were just now! Your cloak is new; even your skin! You are one of the gods who rule the sweep of heaven! Be kind to us, we'll make you fair oblation and gifts of hammered gold. Have mercy on us!" Which is a symbol in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. "My friend, here is the beautiful place—who could mistake it? Here is Odysseus' hall: no hall like this See how one chamber grows out of another; see how the court is tight with wall and coping; no man at arms could break this gateway down!" This excerpt is an example of which value important to ancient Greek society?