Schema: Archetype/Genre quiz
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Lesson: Review Odyssey and xenia. Xenia is the ancient Greek idea of hospitality. The concept is different than ours. The five xenos are: guest, host, friend, foreigner and stranger. The god of xenia is Zeus, which tells you how important it was to the Greeks. We examined how understanding xenia helped us understand the characters and what happens to them. The other concepts discussed were the epic ideas of nostos and kleos. Achilles is a hero of kleos, war and reputation, while Odysseus is a hero of kleos and nostos, peace and homecoming. The Iliad is and epic of war, kleos, and the Odyssey is an epic of peace, nostos. Keep in mind some of the famous characters, Kalypso, Kyklopes, Kirke, Telemachos and Penelope. Also, keep in mind that Agamemnon is a mirror of Odysseus, a hero of kleos who returned to a bad homecoming.
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