Stage 5 · The Grand Tour
The Odyssey
Odysseus spends ten years finding his way home after the Trojan War, an epic of cunning and endurance.
Questions waiting on this journey
- Part 9In the storm, Ulysses keeps thinking, doubting, and choosing again and again. What helps a person keep going when everything seems to be against him?
- Part 13Ulysses himself asks to hear the story of the wooden horse, and then he weeps. Why might the hero of a famous victory cry when he hears his own story sung?
- Last partWhat does it mean to be "at home"? Why do Ulysses and Telemachus each risk so much to find their way back to it?
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- Lesson 1FreeTelemachus has grown up without his father. What does it take for a young person to start acting like the master of his own house?Start
- Lesson 2SubscriptionTelemachus speaks up in front of the whole town, but almost no one helps him. Why is it so hard for people to stand up against wrongdoing they can see?Locked
- Lesson 3SubscriptionTelemachus leaves home secretly at night. Is keeping a secret from someone you love ever the right thing to do?Locked
- Lesson 4SubscriptionNestor keeps telling Telemachus the story of Orestes. Why do you think people tell young people stories about others, and how should a listener use those stories?Locked
- Lesson 5SubscriptionMenelaus is the richest of men, yet he says he has "no pleasure in being lord of all this wealth." Why can't great riches make him happy?Locked
- Lesson 6SubscriptionHelen and Menelaus each tell a story about Ulysses at Troy. What do their stories show about him—and what might each storyteller want the listeners to think about themselves?Locked
- Lesson 7SubscriptionMenelaus finally learns the truth he asked for, and it breaks his heart. Is it always better to know the truth, even when it hurts?Locked
- Lesson 8SubscriptionCalypso offers Ulysses a life that never ends and never grows old, but he still wants to go home. What makes a home worth more than living forever?Locked
- Lesson 9SubscriptionIn the storm, Ulysses keeps thinking, doubting, and choosing again and again. What helps a person keep going when everything seems to be against him?Locked
- Lesson 10SubscriptionA dirty, naked stranger suddenly appears, and everyone runs away except Nausicaa. What does it take to treat a frightening stranger with kindness?Locked
- Lesson 11SubscriptionUlysses enters the palace of strangers and must ask them for everything. How does he win their trust without telling them who he is?Locked
- Lesson 12SubscriptionEuryalus insults Ulysses in front of everyone. When someone mocks you, what is the difference between proving them wrong and just getting angry?Locked
- Lesson 13SubscriptionUlysses himself asks to hear the story of the wooden horse, and then he weeps. Why might the hero of a famous victory cry when he hears his own story sung?Locked
- Lesson 14SubscriptionUlysses finally tells his own story, including his mistakes. What does a leader owe to the people who follow him?Locked
- Lesson 15SubscriptionWhat does it mean to be "at home"? Why do Ulysses and Telemachus each risk so much to find their way back to it?Locked
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Once you finish the 15 Grand Tour lessons, you can read the remaining chapters to the end of the book — just reading, no lessons.
Opens after lesson 15.
- Book IXULYSSES DECLARES HIMSELF AND BEGINS HIS STORY---THE CICONS, LOTOPHAGI, AND CYCLOPES.continues from the last lesson
- Book XAEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE.
- Book XITHE VISIT TO THE DEAD. {88}
- Book XIITHE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.
- Book XIIIULYSSES LEAVES SCHERIA AND RETURNS TO ITHACA.
- Book XIVULYSSES IN THE HUT WITH EUMAEUS.
- Book XVMINERVA SUMMONS TELEMACHUS FROM LACEDAEMON--HE MEETS WITH THEOCLYMENUS AT PYLOS AND BRINGS HIM TO ITHACA--ON LANDING HE GOES TO THE HUT OF EUMAEUS.
- Book XVIULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS.
- Book XVIITELEMACHUS AND HIS MOTHER MEET--ULYSSES AND EUMAEUS COME DOWN TO THE TOWN, AND ULYSSES IS INSULTED BY MELANTHIUS--HE IS RECOGNISED BY THE DOG ARGOS--HE IS INSULTED AND PRESENTLY STRUCK BY ANTINOUS WITH A STOOL--PENELOPE DESIRES THAT HE SHALL BE SENT TO HER.
- Book XVIIITHE FIGHT WITH IRUS--ULYSSES WARNS AMPHINOMUS--PENELOPE GETS PRESENTS FROM THE SUITORS--THE BRAZIERS--ULYSSES REBUKES EURYMACHUS.
- Book XIXTELEMACHUS AND ULYSSES REMOVE THE ARMOUR--ULYSSES INTERVIEWS PENELOPE--EURYCLEA WASHES HIS FEET AND RECOGNISES THE SCAR ON HIS LEG--PENELOPE TELLS HER DREAM TO ULYSSES.
- Book XXULYSSES CANNOT SLEEP--PENELOPE'S PRAYER TO DIANA--THE TWO SIGNS FROM HEAVEN--EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS ARRIVE--THE SUITORS DINE--CTESIPPUS THROWS AN OX'S FOOT AT ULYSSES--THEOCLYMENUS FORETELLS DISASTER AND LEAVES THE HOUSE.
- Book XXITHE TRIAL OF THE AXES, DURING WHICH ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS
- Book XXIITHE KILLING OF THE SUITORS--THE MAIDS WHO HAVE MISCONDUCTED THEMSELVES ARE MADE TO CLEANSE THE CLOISTERS AND ARE THEN HANGED.
- Book XXIIIPENELOPE EVENTUALLY RECOGNISES HER HUSBAND--EARLY IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, EUMAEUS, AND PHILOETIUS LEAVE THE TOWN.
- Book XXIVTHE GHOSTS OF THE SUITORS IN HADES--ULYSSES AND HIS MEN GO TO THE HOUSE OF LAERTES--THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA COME OUT TO ATTACK ULYSSES, BUT MINERVA CONCLUDES A PEACE.
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