Write a 600-800 words essay choosing one of the following topics:
1. Discuss the significance of hospitality in The Odyssey. How does Homer reveal this
importance (or lack of it) through the guests of the epic? Use specifics from the selection?
2. Discuss the meaning of the word odyssey. Give specific details from The Odyssey to support the appropriateness of this title.
Vocabulary:
1. edict: that which proclaimed by an authority as a rule of action
2. educe: to draw out
3. effuse: to pour forth
4. elusion: evasion
5. emigrate: to from living in one country to another for the purpose of settlement
6. emit: to send or give out
7. emulate: to imitate with intent to equal or surpass
8. engender: to produce
9. eugenic: relating to development of a race
10. exonerate: to relieve from blame
We will begin Aesop's Fables next. I will provide handouts.
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