Homer
A legendary blind poet who wrote The Odyssey and Iliad
Everything started with the marriage of _____ and _____
All gods were invited except ____
the goddess of _____
Peleus, Thetis, Eris, discord
She brought an ______ __ inscribed with to the ______.
Three goddesses claimed it as their own: ,,__
Zeus assigned the decision to decide to ____, a trojan prince
Golden Apple, fairest, hera, athena, aphordite, paris
What did each goddes offer?(know them)(put “.”)
And what did paris choose?
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Paris chose ____, but she is married to ___, king of ___.
To assist, ___ shot her with a love arrow and Paris abducted her, causing the ____ ____
Helen, Menelaus, Sparta, Eros, Trojan war
Menelaus asks his brother ____ to get forces to uphold their oath and help retrieve Helen
_____ king of ___, tried to act ___ to evade the war, however is found out
Agamemnon, odysseus, ithaca, mad
After __ years,______ devised a plan to make a _____ ____ to give to the Trojans as a sign of fake surrender. It is let in and ______ are defeated in the night
10, Oddyseus, wooden horse, trojans
In the process of the war, ____ were upset of the destruction of their ____ and decided to take vengence
gods, temples
The _____ make _____’s journey extremely difficult over the course of __ years. _____, the god of ___ makes it even more difficult by blowing the men off course.
However not all gods are against them such as ______ and hermes, who helps him escape the island
Gods, odysseus, 10, poseidon, sea, athena
The story begins ____ ___, where odysseys is being held captive by _____ a sea nymph
Media res, calypso
The odyssey was composed near the _th century by ____
It is an ____ poem, a long narrative containing heroic deeds and events significant to _____ and ____
8, Homer, epic, culture, nation
Characteristics
_____ - begins in the middle
A ____ poem
features _____ that embody _____ __ _____
_____ inventions in human affairs
Use of _____ and ____ ____
Meida res, formal, heroes, values of society, divine, epithets, epic similes
_____ refers to hospitality regarding guest and host respect.
Important to the god ___ as it created a bad or good ______.
Xenia, Zeus, reputation
Themes
____ - Odysseus’ main motive
____ - spending 10 years without purpos
_____ - host/guest interactions
_____ - challenges that oddyseus needs to overcome
_____ - prophecies or warnings
Homecoming, wandering, guest-friendship, testing, omens.
A _____ is a sotry of a hero on a journey.
Quest
People concluded that homer was from ___ ____ as a result of the similarities between his sotries and the first epic poem written __________
Asia Minor, Gilgamesh
Homer’s life span is typically placed comewhere between ____ - ____ (before the common era)
850 and 750 B.C.E
Homer’s poem are a part of the ____ tradition meaning that it was composed and shared verbally and not actually written down by its comteporaries
Oral
An epic is a ____, _______ poem that relates important events in history or tells the folrlore of a culture usually containing an ____ ____ (like odysseus)
Long, narrative, epic hero
Epics influenced several pieces of iconic literature like : ____ , ____, ___ _____ ______, ______ ____
Aerieid, beowulf, the divine comedy, paradise lost
Speaker of poem asks the muss (zues’ daughter) for inspiration.
Invocation of the muse
The start takes place in the middle of the story to capture audience attention
In medias Res
A fixed rythimic pattern which helsp the oral poet remember the lines
Meter
A characterizing phrase for a person, place or a thing
Epithet
A long comparison over many lines; another way to find meter
Epic simile