BEFORE THE ODYSSEY
... 1870s, Heinrich Schliemann, excavated the site of ancient Troy, finding evidence of fire and war dating to about 1250 BCE ...
... 1870s, Heinrich Schliemann, excavated the site of ancient Troy, finding evidence of fire and war dating to about 1250 BCE ...
GROUP RESEARCH PROJECT: THE ODYSSEY English 9B
... Though separated by thousands of years in origin, Odysseus and Maximus Decimus Meridius (the hero of Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator) are very much alike. Maximus is a commander of men, a battle-hardened general in ancient Rome who is far from his native Spain fighting a war in Germany. Like Odys ...
... Though separated by thousands of years in origin, Odysseus and Maximus Decimus Meridius (the hero of Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator) are very much alike. Maximus is a commander of men, a battle-hardened general in ancient Rome who is far from his native Spain fighting a war in Germany. Like Odys ...
REVIEW - Monroe Community College
... concept of gluttony and that of ancient Greece. Agamemnon’s feast also encompasses several of Wright’s reasons for feasting, as Agamemnon feeds his embassy in order to convince them to do him the favor of persuading Achilles to come back to battle. This is in contrast to the feast in Achilles’ hut, ...
... concept of gluttony and that of ancient Greece. Agamemnon’s feast also encompasses several of Wright’s reasons for feasting, as Agamemnon feeds his embassy in order to convince them to do him the favor of persuading Achilles to come back to battle. This is in contrast to the feast in Achilles’ hut, ...
Xenia - CLAS Users
... The Odyssey Bks. 13-14 Xenia Lies and Deception Xenophobia The Importance of the Sea Tie-ins with 5th Century Greece ...
... The Odyssey Bks. 13-14 Xenia Lies and Deception Xenophobia The Importance of the Sea Tie-ins with 5th Century Greece ...
Trojan war script for BM spotlight
... persuaded to return his body to his father, King Priam, for burial. In one of the earliest surviving manuscripts the last words are “And next there came an Amazon.” This was thought to be an indication to reciters to continue the story with the next episode in the war when Penthesilea, queen of the ...
... persuaded to return his body to his father, King Priam, for burial. In one of the earliest surviving manuscripts the last words are “And next there came an Amazon.” This was thought to be an indication to reciters to continue the story with the next episode in the war when Penthesilea, queen of the ...
Greek Mythology in The Odyssey (aka your Study Guide)
... mythology. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to ______________. Poseidon and Apollo, having offended Zeus, were sent to serve King Laomedon of Troy. He had them build huge walls around the city and promised t ...
... mythology. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to ______________. Poseidon and Apollo, having offended Zeus, were sent to serve King Laomedon of Troy. He had them build huge walls around the city and promised t ...
September 3, 2008 World Humanities Mr. Cabat
... •We can make an educated guess that his two-part epic poem, The Iliad (named for Ilium, the Greek word for Troy) and The Odyssey (named for its main character, Odysseus), were written around 800 B.C. (about 300 years before Medea, so we cheated a bit) •Several other poems, odes and hymns are attribu ...
... •We can make an educated guess that his two-part epic poem, The Iliad (named for Ilium, the Greek word for Troy) and The Odyssey (named for its main character, Odysseus), were written around 800 B.C. (about 300 years before Medea, so we cheated a bit) •Several other poems, odes and hymns are attribu ...
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... Please answer each question using the extended response (RICE Method). Please write in complete, fully developed sentences. Each answer will be graded for accuracy and how developed and detailed your answer is. 1. How does Odysseus describe the Cyclops in the first stanza? In other words, what quali ...
... Please answer each question using the extended response (RICE Method). Please write in complete, fully developed sentences. Each answer will be graded for accuracy and how developed and detailed your answer is. 1. How does Odysseus describe the Cyclops in the first stanza? In other words, what quali ...
Pump-Up - Images
... one-eyed giant with the strength of many men. When he and his flocks were safely in the cave, he rolled a boulder in front of its entrance. Odysseus and his men were trapped. “Greetings,” said Odysseus. “In the name of Zeus, I have come to ask for your hospitality. My men and I are hungry and thirst ...
... one-eyed giant with the strength of many men. When he and his flocks were safely in the cave, he rolled a boulder in front of its entrance. Odysseus and his men were trapped. “Greetings,” said Odysseus. “In the name of Zeus, I have come to ask for your hospitality. My men and I are hungry and thirst ...
Sperlonga sculptures
The Sperlonga sculptures are a large and elaborate ensemble of ancient sculptures discovered in 1957 in the grounds of the former villa of the Emperor Tiberius at Sperlonga, on the coast between Rome and Naples. As reconstructed, the sculptures were arranged in groups around the interior of a large natural grotto facing the sea used by Tiberius for dining; many scholars believe he had the sculptures installed. The groups show incidents from the story of the Homeric hero Odysseus, and are in Hellenistic ""baroque"" style, ""a loud, full-blown baroque"", but are generally thought to date to the early Imperial period. As Tacitus and Suetonius recount, the grotto collapsed in 26 AD, nearly killing Tiberius, and either then or in a later fall the sculptures were crushed into thousands of fragments, so that the modern reconstructions have many missing elements. A museum was established in 1963 at Sperlonga to display the reconstructed sculptures and other finds from the villa, with cast reconstructions of the large groups, which are described by the classicist Mary Beard as ""creative reinventions"". As in the first picture here, many elements can be seen twice, as pieced-together originals, and as reconstructions using plaster casts of original pieces, filled out with educated guesswork. As usually reconstructed, the sculptures were arranged in four main groups around an artificial circular pool occupying most of the grotto, and connecting to a larger pool outside, one on an island in the centre of the circle. At the rear of the cave and to the right was a group showing the Blinding of Polyphemus the cyclops (one-eyed giant) by Odysseus and his men, dominated by the huge figure of Polyphemus lying drunk. Forward of this, on an island in the middle of the pool, was a group showing Odysseus' ship attacked by the monster Scylla. Two smaller groups placed on the sides of the pool's opening to the main pool outside are usually interpreted as, to the left, a ""Pasquino group"" of Odysseus carrying the body of Achilles from the battlefield, and to the right, Odysseus about to betray Diomedes after they steal the Trojan cult image of the Palladium from Troy in the course of its siege by the Greeks.On a niche in the cliff face above the entrance to the grotto was Ganymede carried up by the Eagle, a disguise of Zeus, apparently from the same period as the Odysseus groups. Some other statues around the grotto appear to belong both to earlier and later periods, and are excluded from the general comments here. The sculptures were designed to be seen from a triclinium or dining space with couches, presumably inside at least a tent or a ""light pavilion"", set on a rectangular island in the fish pond running into the grotto, and presumably also by walking round the grotto itself, and possibly bathing in the pool. They would presumably have been artificially lit, especially at night, as the rear of the grotto would have been rather dim even in daylight. The grotto was also decorated with ""artificial stalactites and encrustations"" as well as a coloured opus sectile floor, and a ""room"" left of the Polyphemus group had a number of theatrical masks mounted on the walls, designed to be lit from behind.