THE ODYSSEY

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INTRO/EPIC AND VALUES

• Epics are long narrative poems that tell of the adventures of the heroes.
• Homers stories can be traced to historical struggles for controls of water ways.
• Homers second epic was odyssey.

VIOLENCE AND BRUTALITY

• The background of the Odysseus story is Iliad
• It is set in the 10th and final year of the Trojan war
• Thee Greeks attacked Troy
• Menelaus (king of Sparta) his wife ran off with Paris (young prince of Troy)
• Thousands ships they sailed across the Aegean Sea and surrounded the walled of Troy

Odysseus
We can relate to Odysseus because we have a sense of somehow lost in a world of difficult choices. Like Odysseus we have to work hard with what we want in life.

A HERO IN TROUBLE

• Odyssey is a story maker( melancholy)
• Penelope and odysseus are married
• Penelope and odysseus have one on son together

WOODEN HORSE TRACK

• For10 years the Greeks had been fighting the Trojans.
• Odysseus plan to build a wooden horse and hide Greek soldiers inside the belly of the horse.
• After the horse was built the Greeks pushed it up to the gates of Troy.
• Trojans brought the horse into their city.
• That night the Greeks hidden inside the wooden horse came out and opened the gates of Troy.

ANCIENT WORLD AND OURS

• The world goods in ancient cities might only have been pots and pans and cattle and sheep.
• The palaces might have been more than elaborate mud and stone and farmhouses.

SEARCH FOR THEIR PLACES IN LIFE

• Odysseus and his family are people searching for the right relationships with people around them.
• They want to find their proper places in life.
• It's the theme that sets for the odyssey.
• This poem brings us into a search of our real identities and our true selves.

REALTIONSHIP WITH THE GODS

• Homer is always concerned with the relationship between humans and god.
• Homer was religious. He believes that god controls all things.
• Athena is the god of wisdom

WHO WAS HOMER?

• No one knows for sure if homer was real or not.
• Greeks believed that he was a blind minstrel who had came from the island of Chios.
• Some people believe homer was just a legend.
• Back then there was no tv so story telling was entertaining.

EPICS TOLD?

• Epics were told aloud by people who could not read or write.
• Most of the stories were mad up on the spot. (improvised)
• The people telling these stories would have needed to have been very talented.
• They also needed a audience that listen closely.
• People were still telling stories in eastern europe a d other parts of the world.

Live Performance
We can guess want it would be like to hear a live performance of the Odyssey there would be many instances the epic itself.

PEOPLE AND PLACES

• The Greeks of the odyssey are often called Achaeans or Argives.
• The word Achaeans is the most general type of term.
• Achaeans is taken from the name of ancient part of northeastern Greece called Achaeans.
• Argives is referred to as the Greeks who fought at Troy.