=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 See the references for _Moly_ on p. 84, and for Odysseus on p. 140. ODYSSEUS