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Features of an epic
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-invoke the muse (epic invocation/question)
-in media res -background info in long lists-catalogue -epic simile (like in Milton) -supernaturals toy with humans - epic resolved via battle/deed |
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Illiad ((homer, 8th century or 12 century) plot
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Paris of Troy stole Helen of Sparta
-Agamemnon and Achilles beseige Try -Achiles best friend Patroclos killed by Trojans -Achilles of Sparta avenges Patroclos by killing Hector, Priums son -Body dragged behind chariot Prium begs for body Achilles moved by Priums grief |
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Illiad (homer, 8th century or 12 century) characters
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Achilles
Agamemnon Priam Menelaus Bryseis Patroclos Odysseus Paris Hector |
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Zues
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Jupiter, god of sky
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poseidon
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neptune, sea
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hades
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pluto,underworld
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hestia
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vesta,hearth
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hera
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juno, marriage
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ares
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mars, war
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athena, minerva
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wisdom
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aphrodite
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venus, love/beauty
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artemis
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diana, hunt
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apollo
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phoebus, healing, arts, sun/light
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hephaestus
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vulcan, smiths/weavers
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demeter
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ceres, harvest
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persephone
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prosperpine, underworld
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dionysus
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bacchus, wine
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eros
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cupid, love
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eris
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strife
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pan
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goatherds
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graces
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daughters of zues and eurynome
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aglaia
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splendor
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euprosyne
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mirth
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thalia
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cheer
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clio
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history
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urania
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astronomy
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melpomene
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tragedy
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thalia
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comedy
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terpischore
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dance
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calliope
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epic poetry
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erato
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love
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polyhymnia
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songs to gods
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euterpe
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lyric poetry
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furies
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punish crimes
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fates
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choose destiny and life span
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chronos
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saturn, ruler of titans
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naiads
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water nymphs
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odyssey (homer, 8th century or 12 century) plot
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odysseus cant return home, cursed by poseidon. His wife Penelope fends off suitors. His son, Telemachus sets out to find him.
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The Aenid (Virgil)
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-Invocation of Punic Wars
-George Bernard shaw alludes to the aenied in the play "Arms and the Man -structure of Milton's Paradise lost is lifted from the aeneid -Virgil writes aenied under admiration of Homer, yet seems more popular than Homer |
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Aenied plot
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Juno resents Trojan people (aeneas), blows them to carthage
-aeneas woos queen of carthage, dido, tells her stories of war, trojan horse etc. has affair with her -she learns of his intentions, kills herself, vows carthage will avenge her -after much battle, they eventually set up shop as predicted, in Italy |
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aeneas
queen of carthage, dido hera/juno jupiter mercury evander, king of latins vs turnus & rutuli |
characters of aeneas
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Orestia Trilogy (Aeschylus, 5th century BCE)
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trilogy: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
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agamemnon
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part I. in orestia trilogy
-Clyt is angry at Agamem for sacraficing daughter to return home and bringing his lover cassandra home. Clyt and her lover, Aegisthus kills them both |
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Choephoroe
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Part II in Orestia Trilogy
At the advice of an oracle, Orestes, Ag and Clyts son, avenges his father by killing his mother and her lover. He is tormented by the furies |
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Eumenides
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Final in Orestai trilogy
Orestes murder trial overseen by Athena. Orestes vs. the furies. Hung jury leads to Orestes winning, ending the curse of atreus. |
