Title: Homer
1Homers The Odyssey
- Must you have battle in your heart forever?
- The bloody toil of combat? Old contender,
- will you not yield to the immortal gods?
- From The Odyssey, Book 12
2Notes for The Odyssey
- The Odyssey is an ____ poem. It has more than
____ lines and is divided into ____ books.
3Notes for The Odyssey
- The Odyssey is an epic poem. It has more than
____ lines and is divided into ____ books.
4Notes for The Odyssey
- The Odyssey is an epic poem. It has more than
12000 lines and is divided into __ books.
5Notes for The Odyssey
- The Odyssey is an epic poem. It has more than
12000 lines and is divided into 24 books.
6Notes for The Odyssey
- The Odyssey is an epic poem. It has more than
12000 lines and is divided into 24 books. - Epics address universal concerns
- Good and Evil
- Life and Death
- Sin and Redemption
7Some characteristics of an epic
- 1) The story is set in many locations, real or
imaginary, across a wide area. - 2) The hero is an important historical or
legendary character of high social rank a king
or a prince, for example. - 3) The hero is pitted against overwhelming odds
and must be strong and courageous.
8- 4) Supernatural events play an important role in
the plot. - 5) The story is told in language that is formal
and grand but also simple and clear.
9The hero in The Odyssey is
Odysseus.
Armond Asante in The Odyssey
Marble carving of Odysseus from 2nd century BC -
Greece
Sean Bean in Troy
10The hero in The Odyssey is Odysseus.
He is from _______________ which is located
_____________________________.
Armond Asante in The Odyssey
Marble carving of Odysseus from 2nd century BC -
Greece
Sean Bean in Troy
11The hero in The Odyssey is Odysseus.
He is from the island of Ithaca which is
located _____________________________.
Armond Asante in The Odyssey
Marble carving of Odysseus from 2nd century BC -
Greece
Sean Bean in Troy
12The hero in The Odyssey is Odysseus.
He is from the island of Ithaca which is
located off the west coast of Greece.
Armond Asante in The Odyssey
Marble carving of Odysseus from 2nd century BC -
Greece
Sean Bean in Troy
13The Trojan WarWho?
- Menelaus, King of Sparta, and the kings and
soldiers of Greece sail to Troy. - Greeks Agamemnon leader of Greek Army
Achilles
Greatest Greek warrior one physical weakness
Odysseus
The Cunning One - Trojans Priam King of Troy
Paris Son of Priam
Hector Troys greatest warrior, son of Priam
14The Trojan WarWhy?
- Paris kidnapped Helen, wife of Menelaus, who then
sails to kill Paris and destroy Troy, and
retrieve his wife. - Helen is known as the most beautiful woman in
the world, but is also forever associated with
treachery and infidelity. - Shakespeare wrote of her the face that launched
a thousand ships.
15The Trojan WarWhere?
- The battles take place on the coasts and lands
surrounding Troy. - Today this land is the country of Turkey.
- When?
- 1200 BC When the events told in Homers poems
are supposed to have occurred. - This means these stories have been told for over
3200 years. - 900-700 BC The oral tradition is thought to be
first written down by Homer.
16The Adventures of OdysseusWho?
- Odysseus and his men 12 ships and 720 men leave
Troy and head for home. - Rather than soldiers, they now must battle
monsters and enchanting women. - Meanwhile, Penelope waits for him at home while
their son, Telemachus sails the sea looking for
his father.
17The Adventures of OdysseusWhy?
- Odysseus angers the gods who were on the side of
Troy, and one god who was on his side. They have
decided that he must suffer.
18The Adventures of OdysseusWhere?
- The Mediterranean Sea this was the entire known
world for the ancient Greeks. - When?
- The 10 years immediately following the Trojan war.
19The Olympian Gods and Goddesses
- The ancient Greeks believed that the gods and
goddesses were very human and their pettiness,
jealousies, and anger caused humans to suffer. - The Trojan war was prolonged because the gods
took sides during the conflict.
20Gods Siding with Troy
Goddess of Love and Beauty Protector of Paris
21Gods Siding with Troy
Greek God of War - Greatly disliked by Greeks
- Defeated by Achilles in
battle and saved by his sister, Aphrodite.
22Gods Siding with Troy
God of light and the sun truth and prophecy
archery medicine and healing music, poetry, and
the arts. Most known for sun and archery, and
music.
23Gods Siding with Greece
Goddess of Wisdom and War Protector of
Odysseus Athens takes its name from her
24Gods Siding with Greece
Messenger of the Gods
25Gods Siding with Greece
God of the Sea and Earthquakes Inventor of
horses Second only to Zeus in power
26Zeus
- King of the Gods
- God of the sky and thunder
- Also the god of hospitality
- Neutral in the Trojan war
- Known for his infidelities against his wife, Hera
27From Bureaucrats Barbarians The Greek Dark
Ages by Richard Hooker
- No other texts in the Western imagination occupy
as central a position in the self-definition of
Western culture as in the two epic poems of
Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey. They both
concern the great defining moment of Greek
culture, the Trojan War.
28From Bureaucrats Barbarians The Greek Dark
Ages by Richard Hooker
- If the Greeks regarded the Trojan War as the
defining moment of their culture, they did so
because of the poetry of Homer. It would not be
unfair to regard the Homeric poems as the single
most important texts in Greek culture.
29From Bureaucrats Barbarians The Greek Dark
Ages by Richard Hooker
- Whether or not this war really occurred, or
occurred as the Greeks narrate it, is a
relatively unanswerable question. We know that
such a war did take place around a city thatÂ
quite likely was Troy, that Troy was destroyed
utterly, but beyond that its all speculation.
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