The Homer Question
... Homer is the author of the Iliad and the odyssey and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. Homer was seen as a poetic chronicler. (someone who writes accounts of important or historical events) Homer is better viewed as a myth Nothing was know for certain about the authorsh ...
... Homer is the author of the Iliad and the odyssey and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. Homer was seen as a poetic chronicler. (someone who writes accounts of important or historical events) Homer is better viewed as a myth Nothing was know for certain about the authorsh ...
Powepoint for Unit- Lesson #1 Greek History(1)
... aloud by people who could not read and write” (883). ...
... aloud by people who could not read and write” (883). ...
Homer`s The Odyssey Name _____ Date ______ Examining the
... Homer may have lived sometime between 900 and 800 B.C.- if he ever lived at all. Although the ancient Greeks credited him with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey, people have long argued about whether or not he really existed. Many theories speculate on who Homer may have been and where he may have ...
... Homer may have lived sometime between 900 and 800 B.C.- if he ever lived at all. Although the ancient Greeks credited him with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey, people have long argued about whether or not he really existed. Many theories speculate on who Homer may have been and where he may have ...
Odyssey - English at Open
... Stories that explain things which never happen that are always true ...
... Stories that explain things which never happen that are always true ...
Odyssey Internet Activity
... Get a head start on our next unit, Greek Mythology and The Odyssey, by researching the following topics. Use the Internet to locate information on Homer and his epic poem. Begin with www.yahoo.com or www.google.com and type in your search word. ...
... Get a head start on our next unit, Greek Mythology and The Odyssey, by researching the following topics. Use the Internet to locate information on Homer and his epic poem. Begin with www.yahoo.com or www.google.com and type in your search word. ...
Early Greece
... Greeks migrating throughout region 1100-750 B.C.E Writings of Homer Trojan War Historical Homer and its pitfalls. ...
... Greeks migrating throughout region 1100-750 B.C.E Writings of Homer Trojan War Historical Homer and its pitfalls. ...
The Odyssey
... • Most were passed down by mouth before they were written • There is no knowing if the literary devices were included in Homer’s original stories. ...
... • Most were passed down by mouth before they were written • There is no knowing if the literary devices were included in Homer’s original stories. ...
Homer, Oral Tradition, and the Trojan War
... Homer, Oral Tradition, and the Trojan War The Iliad and The Odyssey are said to have been composed around 750–700 B.C. The Iliad tells the story of fourteen days in the next-to-last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The Odyssey follows the adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus on his ten-year journey ...
... Homer, Oral Tradition, and the Trojan War The Iliad and The Odyssey are said to have been composed around 750–700 B.C. The Iliad tells the story of fourteen days in the next-to-last year of the ten-year Trojan War. The Odyssey follows the adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus on his ten-year journey ...
Homer`s The Odyssey
... •An Ancient blind poet •The “bard” who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey between 900 and 700 B.C. ...
... •An Ancient blind poet •The “bard” who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey between 900 and 700 B.C. ...
Odyssey Epic Conventions
... Homer is considered “The Father of Western Literature” because he wrote the first two epics—The Illiad and The Odyssey. Homer lived around 800 B.C., but the events in the epics took place around 400 years earlier. Very little is known about Homer, but one legend says he was blind. ...
... Homer is considered “The Father of Western Literature” because he wrote the first two epics—The Illiad and The Odyssey. Homer lived around 800 B.C., but the events in the epics took place around 400 years earlier. Very little is known about Homer, but one legend says he was blind. ...
The Odyssey - 9th Grade English
... big stone walls around them. The stones were so big that later Greeks thought the walls must have been built by giants, whom they called Cyclops. ...
... big stone walls around them. The stones were so big that later Greeks thought the walls must have been built by giants, whom they called Cyclops. ...
Homer
""Homer"", ""Homeric"", and ""Homerus"" redirect here. For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation), Homeric (disambiguation), Homerus (disambiguation)Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.Whether and when he lived is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BCE. Pseudo-Herodotus estimates that he was born 622 years before Xerxes I placed a pontoon bridge over the Hellespont in 480 BCE, which would place him at 1102 BCE, 168 years after the fall of Troy in 1270 BCE. These two end points are 252 years apart, representative of the differences in dates given by the other sources.The importance of Homer to the ancient Greeks is described in Plato's Republic, which portrays him as the protos didaskalos, ""first teacher"", of the tragedians, the hegemon paideias, ""leader of Greek culture"", and the ten Hellada pepaideukon, ""teacher of [all] Greece"". Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds.Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds in Egypt.