The Odyssey Background
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| Worlds most famous epic poems ______ __________ written by ________ | Iliad/Odyssey/Homer
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| Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey around _______. | 1200 BC
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| Who was Homer? | blind poet, didnt exist? woman? legend? wrote Iliad/Odyssey about a great war, Homeros in Greek
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| "Singer of tales" | Mythmaker, rhapsode
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| Iliad/Odyssey can be traced to real historic struggles for control of what? | Waterway leading from the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea
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| How would Poems be told? | Minstrels traveled from one communitie to another singing of recent events
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| Repetition element | epithet
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| What is the epithet for the goddess Athena? | Gray-eyed Athena
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| Homeric/heroic similes | Comparisons of heroic or epic events to simple and easily understandable everyday events
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| Plot of 1st Epic Poem | Iliad-10 year war outside walls of Troy
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| Cause of Trojan War | Sexual Jealousy
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| 2nd Epic poem about.. | attempt of one Greek soldier, Odysseus, to get home after the Trojan War
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| Epic | long narrative poems that tell the adventures of heroes who in some way embody values of their civilization
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| Iliad is the model for the epic of _________ | war
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| Odyssey is the model for the epic of ________ | the long journey
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| 2 Words of literature from 20th century that were patterned after the model of THE Odyssey | 1Moby-Dick 2The Hobbit
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| Why was there a war? | The Greeks attacked Troy to avenge the insult suffered by Menelaus, King of Sparta, when his wife Helen, ran off with Paris, a young prince of Troy, sexual jealousy
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| How long was the Trojan WAr | 10 years
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| Who was the famous Greek soldier who was fated to die in the war? | Achilles
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| Who won/why | Greeks/ made enormous wooden horse, hit in it, pushed it up to gates of Troy, Trojans took as peace offering & brought in, Greeks came out of horse and fought a victorious battle
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| Typical hero in Homers Day | Special class of aristocrats
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| Where was Odysseus from? | Island-Ithaca
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| Who is Penelope? | Odysseus' faithful wife
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| Who is Telemachus? | Odysseus/Penelope's son
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| Odysseus' famous act as soldier/commander @ troy | Odysseus thought of the famous wooden horse trick that would lead to the downfall of Troy
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