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Odyssey Vocab
Elements of Culture
History of the Odyssey
The Odyssey to Elements of Culture
Neolithic Revolution
100
What is profusion?
What is extravagance.
100
What is cultural diffusion?
What is the movement of customs or ideas from one place to another.
100
What is the first book written by Homer about the Trojan War. The Illiad was written before the Odyssey.
What is the Illiad?
100
What is, social groups such as family are important in culture and family proved to be crucial in the Odyssey. For example, Telemachus was able to help his dad win Penelope back.
What is the connection between the Odyssey and the element of culture of social groups?
100
What is a nomad.
What is someone who wanders place to place?
200
What is ardor?
What is a great passion for something.
200
What is the importance of religion in a culture?
What is, it brings unity and identity to the people in one culture.
200
What is Odysseus wanting to go home quickly, came up with the idea to to build a massive wooden horse and the Greeks would hide in there. The Trojans that that they life the horse as a gift. They took the horse into their city and at night the Greeks climbed out and the the others in and burned and slaughtered the whole city of Trojans.
What is the wooden horse trick?
200
What is, everyone in the Odyssey believes in multiple gods. This is called a polytheistic religion.
What is the connection between religion and the Odyssey?
200
What is 10,000 B.C.
What is the year that things started to change and the Neolithic Revolution began?
300
What is avails?
What is to serve or help.
300
What is language?
What is the cornerstone of culture.
300
What is a story used to explain stuff.
What is a myth?
300
What is, the custom in Greece was that if your husband (the King) died or disappeared then there would be a competition to find a new husband.
What is the connection between customs and the Odyssey?
300
What is 14.
How many animals were domesticated?
400
What is adversity?
What is a hardship.
400
What is the ranking of people in order of status called?
What is social groups.
400
What is orally, with music.
How were the epics told?
400
In Odysseus's house, he used the art of architecture to build his home around a tree trunk. In the Roman culture it was a big art form to build structures with arches.
What is the connection between art and the Odyssey?
400
What is social pyramids.
What is an effect of the revolution that changed the way other people saw each other?
500
What is aloof?
What is apart or at a distance.
500
What is the rules or behavior in one of the most important elements of culture? Ex.: In the U.S. we put up christmas trees at Christmas time.
What is customs and traditions.
500
What is a long poem about adventures. This poem includes a hero.
What is an epic?
500
What is, in the Greek culture, the Odyssey was a big piece of literature to read.
What is the connection between literature and the Odyssey?
500
What is 20-30.
How many people were in a typical group of nomads?