the trojan war - West Creek Latin
... an alarm was sounded on a signal from Odysseus causing the girls to run for safety Achilles, thinking it to be a battle signal, put on the armor and picked up the weapons (Statius, Roman poet) Achilles had no choice but to join the Greek forces at Aulis Commanded the Myrmidons, fierce warriors whose ...
... an alarm was sounded on a signal from Odysseus causing the girls to run for safety Achilles, thinking it to be a battle signal, put on the armor and picked up the weapons (Statius, Roman poet) Achilles had no choice but to join the Greek forces at Aulis Commanded the Myrmidons, fierce warriors whose ...
Upper School English Summer Reading 2013
... killed one of Diana's sacred stags or made a careless boast. Either way, Diana was outraged and she calmed the seas so that the fleet could not take off. The seer Calchas proclaimed that Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, must be sacrificed before the fleet could set sail. This was done, and the Gree ...
... killed one of Diana's sacred stags or made a careless boast. Either way, Diana was outraged and she calmed the seas so that the fleet could not take off. The seer Calchas proclaimed that Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, must be sacrificed before the fleet could set sail. This was done, and the Gree ...
from the Odyssey by Homer Ulysses Defying the Cyclops (1887) by
... Homer's stories probably can be traced to historical struggles for control of the waterway leading from the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. These battles might have taken place as early as 1200 B.C.-a time that was at least as long ago for Homer's audience as the Pilgrims' landin ...
... Homer's stories probably can be traced to historical struggles for control of the waterway leading from the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. These battles might have taken place as early as 1200 B.C.-a time that was at least as long ago for Homer's audience as the Pilgrims' landin ...
from the Odyssey by Homer Ulysses Defying the Cyclops (1887) by
... Homer's stories probably can be traced to historical struggles for control of the waterway leading from the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. These battles might have taken place as early as 1200 B.C.-a time that was at least as long ago for Homer's audience as the Pilgrims' landin ...
... Homer's stories probably can be traced to historical struggles for control of the waterway leading from the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. These battles might have taken place as early as 1200 B.C.-a time that was at least as long ago for Homer's audience as the Pilgrims' landin ...
Homer`s The Odyssey - Waterford Public Schools
... Unlike Achilles, Odysseus is not famous for his strength and bravery, but for his ability to deceive and trick others (it is supposedly Odysseus’ idea to take Troy by offering the enemies a great wooden horse full of Greek soldiers). After the war, Odysseus is in such a rush to get home to Ithaca (w ...
... Unlike Achilles, Odysseus is not famous for his strength and bravery, but for his ability to deceive and trick others (it is supposedly Odysseus’ idea to take Troy by offering the enemies a great wooden horse full of Greek soldiers). After the war, Odysseus is in such a rush to get home to Ithaca (w ...
View sample pages - Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute
... 1. Hand out copies of the Who Was Homer? Handout. Read and discuss the handout with the students. When explaining that bards told their stories by heart without the use of notes, tell the students that this was even more impressive due to the fact that the poems were told in meter. Explain that mete ...
... 1. Hand out copies of the Who Was Homer? Handout. Read and discuss the handout with the students. When explaining that bards told their stories by heart without the use of notes, tell the students that this was even more impressive due to the fact that the poems were told in meter. Explain that mete ...
Classical Studies - Junior Certificate Second and Third Year
... These guidelines for the second and third-year course in Classical Studies have been prepared for the assistance of teachers, since no textbook covers the entire content of the syllabus. Detailed guidelines are also available for the first-year course in Classical Studies*, and much of the material ...
... These guidelines for the second and third-year course in Classical Studies have been prepared for the assistance of teachers, since no textbook covers the entire content of the syllabus. Detailed guidelines are also available for the first-year course in Classical Studies*, and much of the material ...
The Odyssey by Homer
... When called to serve in the Trojan War, Odysseus pretended to be insane and dressed himself as a peasant so that he wouldn’t have to go. His disguise was revealed when other soldiers placed his infant son in front of the plow, and Odysseus did the sane thing: he rescued his son. Thus, he revealed ...
... When called to serve in the Trojan War, Odysseus pretended to be insane and dressed himself as a peasant so that he wouldn’t have to go. His disguise was revealed when other soldiers placed his infant son in front of the plow, and Odysseus did the sane thing: he rescued his son. Thus, he revealed ...
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... One of Homer's most famous epithets is the descriptive phrase "the wine-dark sea." Since wine is red or white or yellowish, and the sea is none of these hues, the description is puzzling. Some say that the ancient Greeks diluted their wine with water and that the alkali in the water changed the colo ...
... One of Homer's most famous epithets is the descriptive phrase "the wine-dark sea." Since wine is red or white or yellowish, and the sea is none of these hues, the description is puzzling. Some say that the ancient Greeks diluted their wine with water and that the alkali in the water changed the colo ...
Homer`s World
... Oral History - Homer’s epics are all that remains of a series of poems that told the whole story of the Trojan War. In later centuries, the Iliad and the Odyssey were memorized by professional reciters, who performed them at religious festivals throughout Greece. They were also the first works read ...
... Oral History - Homer’s epics are all that remains of a series of poems that told the whole story of the Trojan War. In later centuries, the Iliad and the Odyssey were memorized by professional reciters, who performed them at religious festivals throughout Greece. They were also the first works read ...
Maddie Mount Humanities Test Terms: Chapters 1, 3, and 4 Who
... When: Leader of the Athenians during the Persian war (480-490 BC) Where: Athens Significance: He leads the people in rebuilding the city of Athens to showcase their power in beating the Persians. After the Persians burn down Athens, he builds a new civic and political system on top, called the Acrop ...
... When: Leader of the Athenians during the Persian war (480-490 BC) Where: Athens Significance: He leads the people in rebuilding the city of Athens to showcase their power in beating the Persians. After the Persians burn down Athens, he builds a new civic and political system on top, called the Acrop ...
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... story was written down, probably as a written record of a live performance. Scholars are divided over what has been called “The Homeric Question” – was Homer a real person who composed the Iliad and Odyssey (which were performed by a single bard as a long epic song accompanied by the lyre) or a myth ...
... story was written down, probably as a written record of a live performance. Scholars are divided over what has been called “The Homeric Question” – was Homer a real person who composed the Iliad and Odyssey (which were performed by a single bard as a long epic song accompanied by the lyre) or a myth ...
mythology in modern society
... Remember, you're surrounded by mythology in today's society, whether you realize it or not! ...
... Remember, you're surrounded by mythology in today's society, whether you realize it or not! ...
Introduction to The Odyssey
... VII. Greek life during the Bronze Age (1200 B.C.) A. It was an era ruled by tribal chiefs B. It was a violent life in hard times C Greece consisted of small city-states ...
... VII. Greek life during the Bronze Age (1200 B.C.) A. It was an era ruled by tribal chiefs B. It was a violent life in hard times C Greece consisted of small city-states ...
The Odyssey
... Homer was a blind poet and storyteller who lived around the time of 720 B.C. Homer is considered the inventor of the long or extended simile. He specialized in using flashback, cliffhangers and fully developed characters. Aristotle called The Iliad the first great tragedy. ...
... Homer was a blind poet and storyteller who lived around the time of 720 B.C. Homer is considered the inventor of the long or extended simile. He specialized in using flashback, cliffhangers and fully developed characters. Aristotle called The Iliad the first great tragedy. ...
The Lightning Thief (book 1) by Rick Riordan
... Aphrodite’s Blessings by Clemence McLaren "And I realized with a shock that he was never going to understand. He was a man," laments Atalanta about her overbearing father. Atalanta, Andromeda, and Psyche--three Greek heroines bound by love, or by the harsh bonds of a patriarchal society? In these fe ...
... Aphrodite’s Blessings by Clemence McLaren "And I realized with a shock that he was never going to understand. He was a man," laments Atalanta about her overbearing father. Atalanta, Andromeda, and Psyche--three Greek heroines bound by love, or by the harsh bonds of a patriarchal society? In these fe ...
Canto XXX Judith Schultheis November 20,2007
... Greeks and, as a Trojan captive, told the Trojans that the giant wooden horse the Greeks had left behind was intended as a gift to the gods to ensue their safe voyage home. His story convinced the Trojans because it included the former details as well as an explanation that he was left behind to die ...
... Greeks and, as a Trojan captive, told the Trojans that the giant wooden horse the Greeks had left behind was intended as a gift to the gods to ensue their safe voyage home. His story convinced the Trojans because it included the former details as well as an explanation that he was left behind to die ...
WORDLY WISE 3OOO® ONLINE
... tell of great heroes, of goddesses and gods, and of stirring adventures. One of the best-known stories concerns the Trojan Horse. It began when Helen, wife of the Greek king Menelaus, was kidnapped and taken to the city of Troy. The Greeks assembled a mighty fleet and sailed across the Aegean Sea in ...
... tell of great heroes, of goddesses and gods, and of stirring adventures. One of the best-known stories concerns the Trojan Horse. It began when Helen, wife of the Greek king Menelaus, was kidnapped and taken to the city of Troy. The Greeks assembled a mighty fleet and sailed across the Aegean Sea in ...
Greek Mythology/Trojan War Background
... harm her. The suitors agreed. Each one hoped that the choice would fall on him, and they all took the oath, so when her father gave Helen to Menelaus, they were mostly okay with it. ...
... harm her. The suitors agreed. Each one hoped that the choice would fall on him, and they all took the oath, so when her father gave Helen to Menelaus, they were mostly okay with it. ...
Lecture 6 Homer_BEL_20161219114136
... up the ten-year war, Odysseus thought of a scheme to make the Trojans think that the Greeks had finally given up. He ordered a giant wooden horse to be left at the gates of Troy. The Trojans, not seeing any Greeks, assumed that the Greeks had fled and left the horse as a peace offering. They took th ...
... up the ten-year war, Odysseus thought of a scheme to make the Trojans think that the Greeks had finally given up. He ordered a giant wooden horse to be left at the gates of Troy. The Trojans, not seeing any Greeks, assumed that the Greeks had fled and left the horse as a peace offering. They took th ...
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... B. Hecuba: taken into slavery C. Polyxena (Trojan princess): killed on Achilles’s grave D. Aeneas 1. fights Greeks as long as possible 2. escapes Troy (with mom Aphrodite’s help), saving his father & son, but not his wife 3. Virgil’s Aeneid, which gave Rome a cool history E. Helen 1. Aphrodite helps ...
... B. Hecuba: taken into slavery C. Polyxena (Trojan princess): killed on Achilles’s grave D. Aeneas 1. fights Greeks as long as possible 2. escapes Troy (with mom Aphrodite’s help), saving his father & son, but not his wife 3. Virgil’s Aeneid, which gave Rome a cool history E. Helen 1. Aphrodite helps ...
Religion Divinity and Propaganda
... Alexander’s megalomania reached its peak in 324BC, when he requested to be deified (acknowledged as a god). This request was unusual for a living person to make, but would put him on a par with past heroes like Heracles. “If Alexander wants to be the son of Zeus, let him. Why not Poseidon too, while ...
... Alexander’s megalomania reached its peak in 324BC, when he requested to be deified (acknowledged as a god). This request was unusual for a living person to make, but would put him on a par with past heroes like Heracles. “If Alexander wants to be the son of Zeus, let him. Why not Poseidon too, while ...
homer`s world
... really existed. There are many theories about who Homer may have been and when and where he may have lived. According to ancient accounts, he lived sometime between 900 and 700 b.c., possibly on the island of Chios in the eastern Aegean Sea, and he was blind. Most modern scholars agree that the Home ...
... really existed. There are many theories about who Homer may have been and when and where he may have lived. According to ancient accounts, he lived sometime between 900 and 700 b.c., possibly on the island of Chios in the eastern Aegean Sea, and he was blind. Most modern scholars agree that the Home ...
Troy
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Troy (Ancient Greek: Ἴλιον, Ilion, or Ἴλιος, Ilios; and Τροία, Troia; Latin: Trōia and Īlium; Hittite: Wilusa or Truwisa; Turkish: Truva) was a city situated in what is known from Classical sources as Asia Minor, now northwest Anatolia in modern Turkey, located south of the southwest end of the Dardanelles/Hellespont and northwest of Mount Ida at Hisarlık. It is the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Metrical evidence from the Iliad and the Odyssey seems to show that the name Ἴλιον (Ilion) formerly began with a digamma: Ϝίλιον (Wilion). This was later supported by the Hittite form Wilusa.A new capital called Ilium was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople and declined gradually during the Byzantine era.In 1865, English archaeologist Frank Calvert excavated trial trenches in a field he had bought from a local farmer at Hisarlık, and in 1868, Heinrich Schliemann, a wealthy German businessman and archaeologist, also began excavating in the area after a chance meeting with Calvert in Çanakkale. These excavations revealed several cities built in succession. Schliemann was at first skeptical about the identification of Hisarlik with Troy, but was persuaded by Calvert and took over Calvert's excavations on the eastern half of the Hisarlik site, which was on Calvert's property. Troy VII has been identified with the Hittite city Wilusa, the probable origin of the Greek Ἴλιον, and is generally (but not conclusively) identified with Homeric Troy.Today, the hill at Hisarlik has given its name to a small village near the ruins, supporting the tourist trade visiting the Troia archaeological site. It lies within the province of Çanakkale, some 30 km south-west of the provincial capital, also called Çanakkale. The nearest village is Tevfikiye. The map here shows the adapted Scamander estuary with Ilium a little way inland across the Homeric plain.Troia was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998.