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Odyssey Project Each student is to keep a dossier, a file, of the Olympian gods Zeus and Athena in the Iliad. The total project is worth 150 points; the dossier on Zeus is worth fifty points, the dossier on Athena 100 points because it will be longer. Each student should note the characteristics, attributes, activities (speeches and actions), the epithets (various names), iconography, who the god normally associates with, and how the god is viewed by others (gods and humans) of each chosen god in the epic. The student should note the book, line number, and page number of the class edition (or approved edition). Internet editions may not be used—for obvious reasons. Once all the information is gathered, each student must write up the dossier in two or three pages …show more content…
Your intentions are always right"(Lombardo 1:592-600)
"Mother please I don’t have to tell you, you have to be pleasant to our father Zeus’s he won’t be angry and ruin our feast"(Lombardo 1:610-612)
"And the Lord of lighting, Olympian Zeus, went to his bed, the bed he always slept in when sweet sleep overcame him"(Lombardo 1:641-642)
."Dawn had just reached the peak of Olympus, Speaking light to Zeus and the other immortals"(Lombardo 2:53-54)
"We need our commander, one king, the one to whom Zeus, son of Coronus the crooked, has given the staff and the right to make decisions for his people."(Lombardo 2:221-224)
."Father Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, give me ten such counselors, and Priams city would lay her head in our lap. Taken and ravaged"(Lombardo 2:401-404)
"Zeus most glorious, most great, dark cloud that art in heaven, May the sun not set nor darkness gather until I have cast Priams roof beam"(Lombardo

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