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I'm going to read a study
guide for The Odyssey.

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Those of you who
need to study for it

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will find that this guide
will accomplish that.

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I found a good part of
this on a Xerox machine.

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And it sounds like all those
college outlines series study

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guides that you know
too well, I'm sure.

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It's in three short parts.

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"Study Guide for the Odyssey"

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Briefly-- they always
start like that--

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briefly, in 10
years, what happened

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before the story begins?

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What does odyssey mean?

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Identify Scylla and Charybdis.

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Is this an epic?

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Why ten years of war,
three of adventure,

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and seven with Calypso?

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Is this an epic?

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Aristotle, the
romantic is wonderful,

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rather than probable.

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Is there usually a feast
or two, a hero upon whom,

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et cetera, a plea to
the muse for help?

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Does Penelope
handle her suitors?

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[LAUGHTER]

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This part of the audience
is much more vulgar than--

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's amazing how they
find one another.

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What is an epithet?

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Who lied, Odysseus or Homer?

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Do we admire a trickster?

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Is it hot where you lie
reading, and are you aroused?

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What does form imitate and how?

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Are you still beautiful?

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Do you know a figure of
speech when you meet one?

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Is it too far to you by now?

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Is not this an epic in
which you have been lost?

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Is Penelope so unlike Odysseus?

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