1. The Odyssey

3. What is an Epic? A long narrative poem about a legendary hero.
Recall the Gilgamesh epic from Mesopotamia.

4. Homer
poet
thought to be blind, but describes events as a seeing person
lived around 1200 B.C.E

5. Homer
Wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey - stories about the war between the Trojans and the Greeks which had happened between 900 and 700 B.C.E.

6. Illiad Story of the last year of the Trojan War
War had lasted 10 years.
Troy was defeated when Ulysses and his men were able to get inside the walls of Troy concealed within the body of the Trojan horse.

7. The Trojan Horse

8. The Odyssey
The story of the journey of Ulysses and his men trying to get home after the Trojan War.
10 years
an epic about humans on the journey of life overcoming temptations along the way.

9. Characters Ulysses or Odysseus
Sirens - group of females who lured sailors by their singing

10. Characters Circe - goddess, enchantress, who turned men into swine
Scylla - monster with 12 feet and 6 heads with 3 rows of teeth, carries off a sailor in each mouth

11. Characters Charybdis - 3 times a day pulls sailors into her whirlpool
Hyperion - the sun (distinct from Apollo, the sun god)
Jove=Zeus=Jupiter=leader of the gods
Eurylochus - one of the crew members