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Telemachus and Theoclymenus
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
ship, aristocrat, blood, hovering, Athena, Ithaca, epic, middle, Eumaeus, Zeus, outside, murderer
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while Odysseus is making his connections with               
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             tells Telemachus to get going
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appears to him in a dream
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gods in dreams often came as                  pretense
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a standard feature of how          poetry works
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Homer understands that dreams come in the              of the night and a god or goddess will take a particular form, hover over a persons head, and say, hey, why are you asleep, you have all this stuff to worry about
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a turning point for Telemachus [tah-LEM-mah-kus]
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takes off to             
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meets Theoclymenus [thee-oh-CLIGH-men-us]
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running away from his home town
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wants passage to Ithaca
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Telemachus takes him with him on his         
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startling for readers because Theoclymenus is a                 
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in Homeric times, the idea of having a            guilt because you killed someone and therefore were an exile
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didn't mean you were a crazed murder
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often times such a person was seen as an aristocrat who got into an argument with another                      and they came to a duel, and one had to kill the other, which was tough luck for both of them
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name Theoclymenus
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"Theo" = god, "clymenus" = hear
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can read signs
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stranger from the                world
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sense of spookiness: "careful, strangers might come from         "
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Eumaeus
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making connection with Odysseus
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Odysseus listens to his story
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is gathering information about his home and how it has changed since he left
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getting prepared
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Telemachus is on his way back
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will start a series of reunions
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