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HOMER The Odyssey Copyright Polly Hoover

Trojan War Background story to The Odyssey Ten years of fighting Historical Archaeological evidence

Trojan War Mythological: Judgment of Paris Who is the most beautiful woman? Aphrodite, prize is Helen

Contestants Greeks Odysseus Achilles Menelaus Poseidon (until when?) Athena (why?) Trojans Paris Laocoon Hector

Who wins? How do we know this?

HOMER A series of poets who each composes orally an entirely different version of the story Similar to a hip hop DJ, such as Common Traditionally a blind author of The Iliad & The Odyssey A bard

The Odyssey Odysseus returns home Constructs self through narrative The encounter with Nausicaa The meeting with Polyphemus

Nausicaa Episode Beauty and Beast or Frog Prince folktale motif Appropriate host-stranger gift exchange Non-Greeks (Phoenicians) act like Greeks Who are you? At end of encounter

Polyphemus Encounter Reason for Poseidons rage Transgressive god and human exchange Inappropriate host-stranger exchange Greek (son of Poseidon) acts like non- Greek Who are you? At beginning of encounter

Narrative Conventions Embedded narratives Folklore motifs Suspense Unreliable narrator Who speaks/who sees?

Questions? What are some of the characteristics of Polyphemus? What are human and inhuman characteristics about Polyphemus? How are the gods and goddesses represented in The Odyssey? How does this compare with your own conception of divinity/God?

More Questions? Is this a good story? Why or why not? Do you anticipate or know the ending of this story? Is Odysseus responsible for the trouble he gets into during this episode? Is Odysseus a hero? Why or why not?