Epics and Values
Epics are long narrative poems that tell of the adventures of heroes who in some way embody the values of their civilizations. For ages people used Iliad and The Odyssey to teach kids Greek virtues. lliad was the main epic known for the epic of war. Also The Odyssey was known for a long journey examples are ; The Incredible Journey, Moby-Dick, and The Hobbit, etc.
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The war-story background: Violence and Brutality
The story started with the epic Iliad which is the 10th and last year of the Trojan War. Afterwards the wife of King of Sparta ,Helen, she ran off to Paris a young prince of Troy. Then the greek kings banned the brother of Menelaus ;later they got in ships and were going to the Aegean Sea and entered the city of Troy and reduced the city to smoldering ruins, and butchered all the inhabitants, except for those they took as slaves back to Greece. Lastly, Agamemnon,the leader of Greek forces, was murdered by his unfaithful wife when he was back from Troy.
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Odysseus: A Hero in Trouble
He had a wife names Penelope and a son named Telemachus. When his son was a toddler he had to go to war and he didn't want to. So he decided to act like he was crazy so he began to act like he didn't know his friends. So his friends decided to throw his baby in front of the plow when he was plowing and odysseus reacted
right away.Homer was a religious person so that would mean that he believed gods existed and they would control everything. |
The Wooden Horse Trick
The Ancient World and Ours
On Odysseus' way back he and his men were acting like pirates. The places Odysseus goes are not big castles they are more like farms and he goes to steal them. His family at home is really poor and they have nothing so those farms compared to his actually house has so much more that he goes to steal some riches.
A Search For Their Places in Life
Odysseus and his family are trying to find the right place for them. Later on the beginning starts with his son Telemachus who is twenty years old and him and his mom have been pushed around by some men that treat him bad and they want them to marry his mom. Later on he goes and is searching for his father that went to the Trojan War. Meanwhile Odysseus is looking for a way out of the abandoned island.
Relationships With the Gods
Myths are being used in the whole story; myths are basically saying that they are being related with human beings and gods, spiritual realms are relationships. Homer is religious and he explained each god with fantasy with a relationship between both of them. Also he used some gods as alter egos and bringing the good or the bad of Odysseus.
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Who Was Homer
How Were the Epics Told
The way they were read was by certain "formulas". This means that basically this describes the characters or places like for example in the books it was just not athena she was known as gray-eyed Athena. There were also 2 types of similes and it is Homeric and Heroic similes. Sometimes something very bad would happen in the story that after there would be something calming so that the audience can be able to "catch their breath".