I'm going to read a study guide for The Odyssey.
Those of you who need to study for it
will find that this guide will accomplish that.
I found a good part of this on a Xerox machine.
And it sounds like all those college outlines series study
guides that you know too well, I'm sure.
It's in three short parts.
"Study Guide for the Odyssey"
Briefly-- they always start like that--
briefly, in 10 years, what happened
before the story begins?
What does odyssey mean?
Identify Scylla and Charybdis.
Is this an epic?
Why ten years of war, three of adventure,
and seven with Calypso?
Is this an epic?
Aristotle, the romantic is wonderful,
rather than probable.
Is there usually a feast or two, a hero upon whom,
et cetera, a plea to the muse for help?
Does Penelope handle her suitors?
[LAUGHTER]
This part of the audience is much more vulgar than--
[LAUGHTER]
It's amazing how they find one another.
What is an epithet?
Who lied, Odysseus or Homer?
Do we admire a trickster?
Is it hot where you lie reading, and are you aroused?
What does form imitate and how?
Are you still beautiful?
Do you know a figure of speech when you meet one?
Is it too far to you by now?
Is not this an epic in which you have been lost?
Is Penelope so unlike Odysseus?