The Odyssey Background

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.

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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 ____

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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