4. How did Odysseus treat the minstrel? Was the writer himself probably just such a bard?
5. Compare Circe's palace and the home of Odysseus; what was the probable status of the hero, king or chieftain? Why?
6. Note the use of sulphur for purifying the house. What does this show you regarding early Greek civilization?
7. Outline the social and political conditions of life in the Homeric period as shown in the "Odyssey."
FOR REFERENCE
The "Iliad," translated by Lang, Leaf, and Myers.
The "Odyssey," translated by Butcher and Lang.
"Homer and his Age."—Lang.
"The World of Homer."—Lang.