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Homer
Blind writer lived between 800 bc and 700 bc wrote odyssey and the Iliad
Iliad
tells of trojan war
Muse
art goddess, Odysseus prays to them for help in telling his story
Helen
face that launched a thousand ships
How many books in the Odyssey?
24 books
Who is the god/goddess that helps Odysseus throughout the journey?
Athena
How long is the Iliad
10 years
How long is the Odyssey?
10 years
What happens when alchol is involved?
someone dies
Who is Odysseus?
Son of laertes
from Ithica, home is the destination of his journey
Lotus- Eaters
Odysseus' crew members were offered lotus, took away will to come home
Who is Odysseus telling his story to?
Alcinis
King of Phaecians
Lacun
seer
Trojan War
1200 bc
Elements of Epic
1. Hero has special abilities
2.Vast setting
3. Story requires superhuman ablities
4. hero almost gives up
5. hero regains throne
Cicones
(Lesson)
*Greed is bad
*Moderation is good
*Obey leaders
Cyclops-- Polythemus
(Lesson)
are uncivilized:
* no farming
*no laws
*no military
*no gov.
*abuse of children and wife
Greeks are...
Hospitable
Polythemus is the son of?
Posiden
Epithet
discriptive phrase that regularly is used to characterize a person place or thing
Aeolia

Aelous
Place where Aelous lives

God of winds
Odysseus obtained liquor from...
Maron
Characteristics of Epic Hero
1. More intelligen that normal
2. has fatal flaws-- Hubris
3. more courageous
4. able to preform dangerous things
5. nobel parents
6. stronger that normal
7. great leader
8. more recourceful that normal
Tiresias
blind prophet
Laestrygonians
cannibals
destroy every ship but one
Sirens
Wax is in the crews' members ears but odysseus listens to the song while tethered to the mast
What are the 2 themes throughout the entire story?
1. Resisting temtation
2. There is no place like home
Land of the Dead
Talks to old crew member Elpenor
and dead mother Anticlea
*does not talk to mother, is vulnerable
Scylla
Monster of Gray rock
Alcinous
King of Phaeacians
Calypso
sea goddess who loved Odysseus
Circe
enchantress who helped Odysseus
Apollo
god of mustic, poetry, medicine and prophecy
Agamemnon
King and leader of greek forces
Polyphemus
cyclops
Perimedes
member of Odysseus' crew
Eurylochus
member of crew
Persephone
wife of Hades
Telemachus
Odysseus' sone
Sirens
creatures whose songs lure sailors to their deaths
Antinuous
leader of sailors
Achaeans
Greeks
Ilium
Troy
IN medias res
In or into the middle of a sequence of events, as in a literary narrative
hubris
pride/ego
epitaph
writing on a grave
Odyssey
series of adventurous journeys usually marked by changes of fortune
Dilemma
a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
Menelaus
married to Helen
Agamemnon
brother of Menelaus
leader of greek forces
Myth
story usually passed orally about gods
fictitious
Priam
King of Troy
Paris
fell in love with Helen and runs away with her
Achilles
soldier in Greek army
killed because he was shot in the heel
Hector
great warrior
Laocoon
warned trojans of trojan Horse
"watch for greeks weary gifts"
Trojan Horse
"gift" given to trojans from greeks
hollowed out so soldiers could fit in, attacked the city at night after being brought into the city