StudySync: Odyssey

A. He doesn’t care if men misbehave or disobey the orders of the Sungod.

B. He gives Helios permission to punish the crew in any way the Sungod sees fit.

C. He decides to let his brother, Hades, handle it, since he is the god of the dead.

D. He uses his powers to ensure that the crew is punished appropriately.

A. ‘“All ways of dying are hateful to us poor mortals, / true, but to die of hunger, starve to death—”’

“‘Father Zeus! the rest of you blissful gods who never die— / punish them all, that crew of Laertes’ son Odysseus— /

what an outrage!”’

C. “then Zeus the son of Cronus mounted a thunderhead / above our hollow ship and the deep went black beneath it.”

D. “‘Sun, you keep on shining among the deathless gods / and mortal men across the good green earth.”’

A. The gods did whatever in their powers to help Odysseus and his crew return home safely.

B. Odysseus was spared by the gods because he did not himself disobey orders.

C. The gods only wanted to hurt Eurylochus, whom they determined was at fault.

D. All of the above

A. “‘Left on their own, look what a monstrous thing / my crew concocted!’

B. ‘“At last the West Wind quit its wild rage / but the South came on at once to hound me even more,”’

C. ‘“But I held on, dead set ... waiting for her / to vomit my mast and keel back up again—”

D. “I drifted along nine days. On the tenth, at night, / the gods cast me up on Ogygia, Calypso’s island”