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The Odyssey by the Numbers: Free Printable Chart of Who Knows Odysseus Is Home
The Odyssey on two pages: how much of the poem is the wandering and how much is Ithaca, who learns the stranger is Odysseus and in which book, and the suitors’ deaths by killer.
What is inside
- Page 1, the shape of the poem. All 24 books by word count, colored by phase, and the grid of who knows Odysseus is home from Book XIII to Book XXIV.
- Page 2, the ledgers. The nine recognition scenes with a line from each, Homer’s count of the 108 suitors by island, and the 14 named suitors killed in Book XXII with the man who killed each.
Who it is for
Made for teaching the second half of the Odyssey, for book clubs reading it in translation, and for anyone who wants the recognition scenes in order. Quotes are from Butcher and Lang; the facts hold in any translation.
Where the numbers come from
The Odyssey, translated by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang (1879), public domain, via Project Gutenberg (eBook #1728). Every number on the handout is computed from the The Odyssey character map and the text itself, the same way the data story is, so the handout, the story and the map can never disagree. Select any figure on the interactive map to see the passage behind a line.
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