The Odyssey And the Epic Tradition Before history books…. O Ancient Greeks turned to poets to hear stories of the past. O These poets traveled from city.

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The Odyssey And the Epic Tradition

Before history books…. O Ancient Greeks turned to poets to hear stories of the past. O These poets traveled from city to city singing or reciting long poetic epics in front of crowds O These were partly memorized and partly improvised

2 Epic Poems written in 725 B.C. by Homer, a blind poet The Iliad O First written record of Greece O Describes the events of 51 days during the last year of the war when Achilles kills Hector The Odyssey Describes the 10-year journey of Odysseus as he tries to go home to Ithaca after the Trojan War He and his men face monsters, giants, cannibals, temptation, and death

Minstrel/Singer from the island Chios Homer was a Rapsode or singer of tales. All historians/entertainers of Homer’s time did not write their stories/facts down. This Homer Not This Homer… What do you need to know about Homer?

What do you need to know about The Odyssey?

What do you need to know about the Trojan War?

Where are we?

O He will face many creatures and gods that will make his journey difficult

O His biggest problem is that he has made an enemy of the sea god, Poseidon O He is traveling with hundreds of his men yet he will be the only survivor

Awaiting him in Ithaca… the beginning of the story. O He has been gone 20 years O His son, who was only a newborn when he left, is overrun by over 100 suitors that want to marry his mother O They are eating through his livestock, ordering around the servants, and refusing to leave O Athena arrives in disguise and convinces him to go look for information about his father

Story in Ithaca about Odysseus’ wife and son as they await his return (called the Telemachy) Tale of Odysseus’ wanderings during the ten years following the Trojan War Merging of the strands when Odysseus returns to Ithaca and joins forces with his son, Telemachus, to destroy their enemies

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