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Star Wars and Homer

Important Terms Hero Epic Iliad Odyssey How is Star Wars an Epic?

Epic Episodes arming scenes battle scenes epic games or contests a trip to the Underworld a vision of the future an epic catalogue or list grand assemblies divine machinery funeral scene

This scene depicts the Ransom of Hector based upon Iliad 24 This scene depicts the Ransom of Hector based upon Iliad 24. Read in class: The Funeral of Hector (Iliad 24:692-804) You can read this electonically in Johnston’s 2006 translation or in Samuel Butler’s 19th-century translation