One of Ulysses's Adventures
An Escape from the Sea
A Picnic on the Shore
The Character of Nausicaä
My Idea of a Princess
The Life of a Greek Woman
A Group of Girls
The Character of Odysseus
Shipwrecked
A Beautiful Building
Along the Shore
Among Strangers
A Garden
A Story from the Odyssey
Odysseus at the House of Alcinoüs
The Lady of the House
The Greek Warrior
The Stranger
Why I Wish to Study Greek
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
A Story from the Odyssey:—Read, in a translation of the Odyssey, a story of Odysseus, and tell it in your own words. The following stories are appropriate: The Departure from Calypso's Island, Book V; The Cyclops Polyphemus, Book IX; The Palace of Circe, Book X; The Land of the Dead, Book XI; Scylla and Charybdis, Book XII; The Swineherd, Book XIV; The Trial of the Bow, Book XXI; The Slaughter of the Suitors, Book XXII.
After you have chosen a story, read it through several times, to fix the details in your mind. Lay the book aside, and write the story simply, but as vividly as possible.
The Stranger:—Explain the circumstances under which the stranger appears. Are people startled at seeing him (or her)? Describe him. Is he bewildered? Does he ask directions? Does he ask help? Quote his words directly. How are his remarks received? Are people afraid of him? or do they make sport of him? or do they receive him kindly? Who aids him? Tell what he does and what becomes of him. Quote what is said of him after he is gone.
Perhaps you will like to tell the story of Ulysses's arrival among the Phaeacians, giving it a modern setting, and using modern names.
Odysseus at the House of Alcinoüs:—Without reading Book VII of the Odyssey, write what you imagine to be the conversation between Alcinoüs (or Arete) and Odysseus, when the shipwrecked hero enters the palace.
COLLATERAL READINGS
| The Odyssey | George Herbert Palmer (Trans.) |
| The Odyssey of Homer (prose translation) | Butcher and Lang |
| The Iliad of Homer | Lang, Leaf, and Myers |
| The Odyssey (translation in verse) | William Cullen Bryant |
| The Odyssey for Boys and Girls | A.J. Church |
| The Story of the Odyssey | " " " |
| Greek Song and Story | " " " |
| The Adventures of Odysseus | Marvin, Mayor, and Stawell |
| Tanglewood Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Home Life of the Ancient Greeks | H. Blümner (trans, by A. Zimmerman) |
| Classic Myths (chapter 27) | C.M. Gayley |
| The Age of Fable (chapters 22 and 23) | Thomas Bulfinch |
| The Story of the Greek People | Eva March Tappan |
| Greece and the Aegean Isles | Philip S. Marden |
| Greek Lands and Letters | F.G. and A.C.E. Allinson |
| Old Greek Folk Stories | J.P. Peabody |
| Men of Old Greece | Jennie Hall |
| The Lotos-eaters | Alfred Tennyson |
| Ulysses | " " |
| The Strayed Reveller | Matthew Arnold |
| A Song of Phaeacia | Andrew Lang |
| The Voyagers (in The Fields of Dawn) | Lloyd Mifflin |
| Alice Freeman Palmer | George Herbert Palmer |