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Epics & Values
The War Story Background
Odysseus: A Hero in Trouble
The Ancient World and Ours
A Search For Their Places...
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This is a long narrative poem that tells of the adventures of heroes.
What is an epic?
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Not quite an odyssey, this is the background story.What is the Iliad?
What is the Iliad?
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These humans were considered something between a god and an ordinary human.
What is a hero?
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These two words describe Odysseus' world.
What is harsh and violent?
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Odysseus and his people really wanted to find this.
What is their place in life?
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These two epics were used to teach Greek children the virtues of greek civilization.
What is The Iliad & The Odyssey?
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Helen's (The King of Sparta's wife) choice in men caused this attack by the Greeks.
Helen's (The King of Sparta's wife) choice in men caused this attack by the Greeks.What is the attack on Troy?
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We can relate to this man because he faces a world of difficult choices
Who is Odysseus?
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He's no Johnny Depp, but he and his men acted like him on their journey home.
What is a pirate?
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This search for their place in life is this "LITERARY TERM" that sets the tone in The Odyssey.
What is theme?
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This man's epic is "at the heart of the epic tradition."
Who is Homer?
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This man's heel did not cause him any pain, but he did die during the final year of the Trojan War.Who is Achilles?
Who is Achilles?
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Odysseus tried to do something that many men were accused of during the Vietnam War.
What is "draft-dodging"?
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These would have been your "Wordly Goods" in the Ancient World.
What are pots, pans, cattle & sheep?
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Our version of the Odyssey does not start at Odysseus' departure. Instead it begins with this man.
Who is Odysseus' son Telemachus?
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This is no lillipad. This story is the primary model for the epic of war.
What is the Iliad?
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Women seemed to cause a lot of problems. This man's unfaithful wife murdered him upon his return to Troy.
Who is Agamemnon?Women seemed to cause a lot of problems. This man's unfaithful wife murdered him upon his return to Troy.
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Odysseus did this donned this "costume" and did this chore to avoid having to go to war.
What is dress like a peasant and work in the fields?
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These royal hangouts were nothing more than elaborate mud and stone farmhouses.
What are palaces?
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Telemachus is suffering from this pressure.
Who are soldiers threatening him and pressuring his mom to marry one of those soldiers?
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This adventure is the model for the epic of a long journey.
What is The Odyssey?
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This man also had trouble with the ladies. He is the main attraction in Homer's "Odyssey."Who is Odysseus.
Who is Odysseus?
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Odysseus did this when Agamemnon tried to prove that Odysseus was not really a peasant.
What is turned his plow aside to avoid running over his only son.
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Odysseus culture had nothing in common with this high culture that would develop years later.
What is the Athenian Culture?
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Odysseus can't help Telemachus because he is here.
What is stranded on an island?