How Were The Iliad And The Odyssey Used For?
Ana Francisco
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1. Almost three thousand years ago, people who lived in the starkly beautiful part of the world we now call Greece were telling stories about a great war.
2. What are Homer’s great war stories?Iliad and the Odyssey
3. Homer’s stories can probably be traced to what and where? Historical struggles; Aegean sea to the sea of Marmara and Black sea.
4. Homer’s first epic poem and Iliad tells to story of ?Be Specific 10 year war fought outside troy.
5. Who was the Trojan War fought between? People of Troy and Allie’s of Greek Kings.
Epic and Values
1. What are epics? Long narrative poems that tell of the adventure of hero’s who in some way embody the values of their civilianization.
2. What were the Iliad and the Odyssey used for? To teach greek virtues. …show more content…
The epics of the Western world Rome’s/ France’s / Italy/ India 2 and Mali’
4. What handicap did homer have? Blindness
The War-Story Background: Violence and
Brutality
1. According to the Iliad what happened in the war? Greeks attacked troy to avenge Menelaus.
2. The Greeks were under the command of ? Agamemnon
3. Who was the subject of the –Odyssey? Odysseus
Odysseus: A Hero In Trouble
1. Why is Odysseus different? He is a hero in trouble.
2. Write ten facts about the Odyssey as far as Odysseus’s life ?
- great soldier in the war.
- People of his home lacked of respect fr him.
- He married Penelope
- Penelope and Odyssey’s had a son
- He was only a toddler when Odysseus left for war.
- Odysseus did not want to go to war
- But he was obligated under treaty to go
-When they came to get him he acted insane.
- Dressed as a peasant and plowed field
- His sanity was proven by not running his baby over
The Wooden –Horse Trick
1. What trick did Odysseus think of? Woden horse
Pg. 640
1. Almost three thousand years ago, people who lived in the starkly beautiful part of the world we now call Greece were telling stories about a great war.
2. What are Homer’s great war stories?Iliad and the Odyssey
3. Homer’s stories can probably be traced to what and where? Historical struggles; Aegean sea to the sea of Marmara and Black sea.
4. Homer’s first epic poem and Iliad tells to story of ?Be Specific 10 year war fought outside troy.
5. Who was the Trojan War fought between? People of Troy and Allie’s of Greek Kings.
Epic and Values
1. What are epics? Long narrative poems that tell of the adventure of hero’s who in some way embody the values of their civilianization.
2. What were the Iliad and the Odyssey used for? To teach greek virtues. …show more content…
The epics of the Western world Rome’s/ France’s / Italy/ India 2 and Mali’
4. What handicap did homer have? Blindness
The War-Story Background: Violence and
Brutality
1. According to the Iliad what happened in the war? Greeks attacked troy to avenge Menelaus.
2. The Greeks were under the command of ? Agamemnon
3. Who was the subject of the –Odyssey? Odysseus
Odysseus: A Hero In Trouble
1. Why is Odysseus different? He is a hero in trouble.
2. Write ten facts about the Odyssey as far as Odysseus’s life ?
- great soldier in the war.
- People of his home lacked of respect fr him.
- He married Penelope
- Penelope and Odyssey’s had a son
- He was only a toddler when Odysseus left for war.
- Odysseus did not want to go to war
- But he was obligated under treaty to go
-When they came to get him he acted insane.
- Dressed as a peasant and plowed field
- His sanity was proven by not running his baby over
The Wooden –Horse Trick
1. What trick did Odysseus think of? Woden horse