1. RIGHT NOW Pass out papers.
Title Section 40 “Odyssey Quick Write” and add it to your TOC.
Write a response to this situation: You’re 27 years old. When you were 17, you were forced to leave home to fight in a war. Now you’re on your way home, but it’s been ten years, and you haven’t talked to your family in all that time. What are you thinking?
You have about 10 minutes. Keep your pencil moving!
RIGHT NOW

11. The Odyssey
Elements of the Epic

12. The Odyssey Attributed to Homer
8th century BC, but deals with events in the Bronze Age (500 years earlier)
Sequel to The Iliad
Second oldest extant work in Western literature
Written in Greece
Epic poem meant to be performed
The Odyssey

13. An epic is a long narrative poem, usually from ancient oral tradition, about the adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation.

14. What makes an epic different from a narrative?

15. What makes an epic different?
Elements of a Non-Epic Narrative:
Protagonist
Setting
Plot
Theme
What makes an epic different?

16. What makes an epic different?
Elements of an Epic Narrative:
Elements of a Non-Epic Narrative:
Epic Hero
Epic Setting
Epic Plot
Epic Theme
Archetypes
Protagonist
Setting
Plot
Theme
What makes an epic different?