The Iliad – Summary Book I (1)
... him. Achilles agrees. Calchas tells the assembly that by refusing Chryses Agamemnon insulted Apollo. The only solution is to give back the priest’s daughter, Chryseis, along with an offering to the priest’s town. Agamemnon is furious that he must give up his prize while everyone else gets to keep th ...
... him. Achilles agrees. Calchas tells the assembly that by refusing Chryses Agamemnon insulted Apollo. The only solution is to give back the priest’s daughter, Chryseis, along with an offering to the priest’s town. Agamemnon is furious that he must give up his prize while everyone else gets to keep th ...
lecture 7b: iliad - bracchiumforte.com
... The “Homeric Question” -most ancient and modern scholars up to the 18th century assumed that Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey -Josephus, an ancient historian, is a notable early exception -in the 18th century, Robert Wood posed the idea regarding oral composition again; F.A. Wolf suggested that ...
... The “Homeric Question” -most ancient and modern scholars up to the 18th century assumed that Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey -Josephus, an ancient historian, is a notable early exception -in the 18th century, Robert Wood posed the idea regarding oral composition again; F.A. Wolf suggested that ...
The Greeks built buildings as temples in cities to honor their gods.
... Sacrifices were normally either an animal or wine poured out to honor the god. However, legend has it, that there was an occasion in which the wind would not blow and the Greeks could not set sail. They wanted to go to Troy to take Helen from the Trojans. To get the wind to blow they offered a h ...
... Sacrifices were normally either an animal or wine poured out to honor the god. However, legend has it, that there was an occasion in which the wind would not blow and the Greeks could not set sail. They wanted to go to Troy to take Helen from the Trojans. To get the wind to blow they offered a h ...
Allusions – Mythological
... 30. Mnemonics - a device used to aid memory; the personification of memory, Mnemosyne, who gave birth to the nine Muses, who supposedly gave good memory in story telling. 31. Morphine - a bitter white, crystalline alkaloid used to relieve pain and induce sleep; Morpheus was a god that could easily c ...
... 30. Mnemonics - a device used to aid memory; the personification of memory, Mnemosyne, who gave birth to the nine Muses, who supposedly gave good memory in story telling. 31. Morphine - a bitter white, crystalline alkaloid used to relieve pain and induce sleep; Morpheus was a god that could easily c ...
Chapter 8 SS Notes - Rebecca Harris (Becky Harris)
... 776BC lasting for more than 1,000 years EPICS and FABLES -Greek poems and stories are some of the oldest literature in Western Civilization- models for writing -first Greek stories were called epics- Iliad and the Odyssey, by Homer in 700’s BC- based on stories about war between Greece and the city ...
... 776BC lasting for more than 1,000 years EPICS and FABLES -Greek poems and stories are some of the oldest literature in Western Civilization- models for writing -first Greek stories were called epics- Iliad and the Odyssey, by Homer in 700’s BC- based on stories about war between Greece and the city ...
Homer`s World
... Introduction: Composed in Greece around 750–725 B.C., the Iliad and the Odyssey are possibly the greatest masterpieces of the epic form, narrative poetry about a hero’s adventures. Both stories were first told orally, possibly even sung, and it may not have been until several generations later that ...
... Introduction: Composed in Greece around 750–725 B.C., the Iliad and the Odyssey are possibly the greatest masterpieces of the epic form, narrative poetry about a hero’s adventures. Both stories were first told orally, possibly even sung, and it may not have been until several generations later that ...
The Odyssey - Teaching Unit: Sample Pages
... blind poet and wandering performer. It is generally thought that these poems were written down by someone else around 700 B.C. The stories, which contain material passed down through an unknown number of generations were already known but still relished by his audience. Trojan War The Trojan War, wh ...
... blind poet and wandering performer. It is generally thought that these poems were written down by someone else around 700 B.C. The stories, which contain material passed down through an unknown number of generations were already known but still relished by his audience. Trojan War The Trojan War, wh ...
Greek Mythology Cheat Sheet
... this vulnerability and shoots a poisoned arrow into Achilles’ heel —thus, we have the term “Achilles’ heel,” meaning one’s vulnerability.) Achilles was warned that if he went to war he would gain great glory, but he would die young. His mother then disguised him in women’s clothing, but the sly Odys ...
... this vulnerability and shoots a poisoned arrow into Achilles’ heel —thus, we have the term “Achilles’ heel,” meaning one’s vulnerability.) Achilles was warned that if he went to war he would gain great glory, but he would die young. His mother then disguised him in women’s clothing, but the sly Odys ...
PowerPoint from Class over Epic
... often resulting in their downfall. In Mythology, humans sometimes demonstrated hubris, which angered the gods. ...
... often resulting in their downfall. In Mythology, humans sometimes demonstrated hubris, which angered the gods. ...
Elements of an Epic
... The walls around Troy were very high and very strong. According to the legend of Trojan Horse, for ten long years, the Greeks had been trying to get over the wall around the city of Troy. ...
... The walls around Troy were very high and very strong. According to the legend of Trojan Horse, for ten long years, the Greeks had been trying to get over the wall around the city of Troy. ...
idioms
... influenced modern language by becoming idioms • An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning based on its original use in a Greek or Roman myth • Your vocabulary represents some of the most recognized idioms ...
... influenced modern language by becoming idioms • An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning based on its original use in a Greek or Roman myth • Your vocabulary represents some of the most recognized idioms ...
Biography of Homer
... life of the man who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. The details are few. We do not even know the century in which he lived, and it is difficult to say with absolute certainty that the same poet composed both works. The Greeks attributed both of the epics to the same man, and we have little hard ...
... life of the man who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. The details are few. We do not even know the century in which he lived, and it is difficult to say with absolute certainty that the same poet composed both works. The Greeks attributed both of the epics to the same man, and we have little hard ...
ENG 251 Homer Study Guide
... reconciled and Achilles reentered the battle, killing Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior, although Achilles knew that he himself would die shortly after Hector's death. The story of Achilles' wrath is told in Homer's Iliad. In the tenth year of the siege, the Trojans were deceived by the hollow Tro ...
... reconciled and Achilles reentered the battle, killing Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior, although Achilles knew that he himself would die shortly after Hector's death. The story of Achilles' wrath is told in Homer's Iliad. In the tenth year of the siege, the Trojans were deceived by the hollow Tro ...
The Iliad
... Achaean camp. Kalkas warns of Apollo’s displeasure. Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel. Achilles withdraws from fighting. Zeus promises Thetis that the Achaeans will lose to the Trojans until Achilles’ honor is restored. Book II – Zeus sends a false dream to Agamemnon. Ag. tests his men and almost loses ...
... Achaean camp. Kalkas warns of Apollo’s displeasure. Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel. Achilles withdraws from fighting. Zeus promises Thetis that the Achaeans will lose to the Trojans until Achilles’ honor is restored. Book II – Zeus sends a false dream to Agamemnon. Ag. tests his men and almost loses ...
Advanced Placement Tool Box
... Achilles –the greatest warrior on the Greek side in the Trojan war whose mother tried to make immortal when as an infant she bathed him in magical river, but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable. Adonis –an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love. By ext ...
... Achilles –the greatest warrior on the Greek side in the Trojan war whose mother tried to make immortal when as an infant she bathed him in magical river, but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable. Adonis –an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love. By ext ...
Mythological Allusions
... Achilles –the greatest warrior on the Greek side in the Trojan war whose mother tried to make immortal when as an infant she bathed him in magical river, but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable. Adonis –an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love. By ext ...
... Achilles –the greatest warrior on the Greek side in the Trojan war whose mother tried to make immortal when as an infant she bathed him in magical river, but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable. Adonis –an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love. By ext ...
Mythology, Greek, Roman Allusions
... mother of Triton Andromache –wife of Trojan warrior Hector Andromeda –daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and Cassiopeia, who boasted that she was more beautiful than the Nereids. Poseidon promptly retaliated by sending a sea monster to terrorize the country side. Andromeda was offered as a sacri ...
... mother of Triton Andromache –wife of Trojan warrior Hector Andromeda –daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and Cassiopeia, who boasted that she was more beautiful than the Nereids. Poseidon promptly retaliated by sending a sea monster to terrorize the country side. Andromeda was offered as a sacri ...
Introduction to The Odyssey
... often resulting in their downfall. In Mythology, humans sometimes demonstrated hubris, which angered the gods. ...
... often resulting in their downfall. In Mythology, humans sometimes demonstrated hubris, which angered the gods. ...
Greek Mythology - Mrs. Anderson's Classroom
... • Allusion – reference to a past well-known event or story ...
... • Allusion – reference to a past well-known event or story ...
Background Guide
... his cunning and diplomacy. It was at his suggestion that all the original suitors of Helen decided to make an oath to protect whoever her husband would eventually be. He has proved himself indispensable to the Achaeans, such as catching Achilles in his ploy to avoid joining the army. Odysseus himsel ...
... his cunning and diplomacy. It was at his suggestion that all the original suitors of Helen decided to make an oath to protect whoever her husband would eventually be. He has proved himself indispensable to the Achaeans, such as catching Achilles in his ploy to avoid joining the army. Odysseus himsel ...
NOTES FOR THE PENELOPIAD
... Aphrodite, a golden apple marked “for the fairest.” Of course, the three goddesses argued over for whom the apple was intended. The goddesses took the matter to Zeus, who prudently decided to not get involved. Instead, he took the apple to the young and handsome Paris, son of King Priam of Troy. Par ...
... Aphrodite, a golden apple marked “for the fairest.” Of course, the three goddesses argued over for whom the apple was intended. The goddesses took the matter to Zeus, who prudently decided to not get involved. Instead, he took the apple to the young and handsome Paris, son of King Priam of Troy. Par ...
Plastic surgery and Greek mythology
... named Chryseis who had been given to Achilles as a prize of the war. Agamemnon took her for himself, pulling rank as the commander-in-chief. Achilles, the bravest warrior in the Greek camp, refused to fight and as a result the Trojans managed to take the upper hand. Achilles’ friend Patroclus, in de ...
... named Chryseis who had been given to Achilles as a prize of the war. Agamemnon took her for himself, pulling rank as the commander-in-chief. Achilles, the bravest warrior in the Greek camp, refused to fight and as a result the Trojans managed to take the upper hand. Achilles’ friend Patroclus, in de ...
Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer's Iliad. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked ""for the fairest"". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the ""fairest"", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern-day Italy.The ancient Greeks treated the Trojan War as a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC and believed that Troy was located near the Dardanelles in what is now Turkey. As of the mid-19th century, both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical. In 1868, however, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann met Frank Calvert, who convinced Schliemann that Troy was at Hissarlik and Schliemann took over Calvert's excavations on property belonging to Calvert; this claim is now accepted by most scholars. Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War are derived from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC, often preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes, 1194–1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VIIa.