Odyssey Secondary Scholarship

• ' Odysseus abuses the Xenia he is shown ' - West
• ' Epic women are undeniably powerful ' - McCarter
• ' xenia is a way of gauging a societies level of civilisation ' - Selby
• ' all good xenia has been rewarded, all bad xenia has been punished ' - Edith Hall
• ' loyal hero husband ' - Peter Jones
• ' eternal wanderer' - Peter Jones
• ' anti - hero ' - Peter Jones
• ' the desire for homecoming and the lure of adventure ' - Pedrick
• ' In Odysseus the Greeks had a glamorous hero ' - Edith Hall
• ' Homeric Gods are embarrassing ' - Graziosi
• ' the marriage between Penelope and Odysseus is one between intellectual equals and also one of true love ' - Fagles
• ' they offer a mirror on society ' - Kearns ( the gods )
• ' Penelope is a model of fidelity ' - Griffin
• ' inherently curious about the world ' Edith Hall
• ' effect of epithets is to remind us of the permanent existing qualities of the people ' Rieu
• Odysseus is unheroic as he is only faced by monsters and his inferiors, not his equals - Bowra
• ' Odysseus' leadership can be questioned ' - Sowerby
• ' her quiet weaving is symbolic of her unpredictable plans and motives ' - Mheallaigh
• ' Phaeacia is represented as the Greek ideal ' - Sowerby
• ' the young man must not rival Odysseus ' - Jones
• ' she is the one figure to outsmart Odysseus ' - Goldhill