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In 1-2 well-developed and well-detailed paragraphs, discuss one of the topics listed below. After you have posted your discussion, make sure you reply to or comment on at least TWO of your classmates' posts. Each response should be detailed: a comment such as "good post" or "I don't agree" is not developed; why is it good or why don't you agree? Feel free to engage in dialogue with more students if you wish.

• What do we learn about Odysseus’s character—good and/or bad—from his encounter with one or two of the following: Cyclops (Polyphemus), Aolios, Circe, his mother (Anticleia), Achilles, Sirens, Scylla, Calypso?
• What grade would you give Odysseus as a leader? Explain.
• Study the epic simile in Book XXI (lines 512-521) in which Odysseus is likened to a singer or “someone really skilled at playing the lyre.” What is the significance of this simile? Are there other places in the epic where Odysseus resembles an artist or artist figure?
• What is appropriate or fitting or useful that Odysseus’s disguise in Ithaca is a beggar?