Honors The Odyssey Books I-VIII Questions

There are a lot of questions here, so you may want to pace yourselves on the answers:

1) We don't meet Odysseus until book V, and, instead, the story revolves around his wife, child, and home. Why, do you think, Homer structures the narration this way?

2) Describe Odysseus when we first meet him:  What is he doing? Where he is he?  How would you describe his mental condition?  Why is he in this mental condition?

3) Summarize in a sentence or two the story of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra retold throughout the Odyssey.  Who are Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's siblings (who is Agamemnon's brother, and who is Clytemnestra's sister)?   Why, do you think, so much attention is given this story throughout The Odyssey;  that is, how does it provide key context to the larger conflict, plot and theme of The Odyssey?

4) Contrast Odysseus' relationship to Calypso with how he treats Nausica on the island of Phaeacia. 

5) Taken as a whole, what does both the Agamemnon-Clytemnestra subplot as well as their sibling's "marital experience", as well as Odysseus' relationship to both Calypso and Nausica, tell us about how the Homeric Greeks viewed women?