Iliad+&+Odyssey

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Lindsay, Nolan, Casey
=== · The Iliad is dominated by men during the Trojan war ·  Woman are a very high value ·  Aristocratic woman in Mycenaean posses arête ·  Arête meaning consisting of beauty ,intelligence, loyalty and excellence ·  Weaving is there handcraft work ·  Queen rules from home-not battle field o  Holds great power in place of husbans absence ·  __ Homeric hero __o  Female captive-most honored price w/ the greatest arête o  Heroes cherish these women as individuals and symbols ·  __ Causes of Trojan war __o  Helens abduction o  Anger of Achilles because of the seizure of briseis o  Briseis-prize of honor(focus of the Iliad) ·  __ The female point of view __<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o  Andromache <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o  Plight of all Mycenaean woman became war victims ,enslaved by victors <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  __ Female divinities __<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o  Athena <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o  Zeus’s favorite daughter  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kyle, Sam K, Shannon S
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Occurs around 1250b.c. during the late Bronze or Mycenaean age in modern day Turkey <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· During the last year of the Greek war against troy <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· In the next 10 years greek speaking tribes invaded northern Greece (Macedonia) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 1900-1600b.c.- decendents moved south to the rest of Greece <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 1450-1200b.c. was their golden age <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 1200b.c. palace centers were sacked in civil wars <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Our knowledge is limited on Mycenaean civilization because of time, weather, fire, and theft <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Materials that survived time: jewelry, pottery, metal containers, and assorted war gear <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Clay tablets with the language of Linear B on them were found <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Mycenaean civilization in full bloom far surpassed in complexity and wealth many of the Greek civilizations that followed it, including Homers age <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Mycenaeans were aggressive people and enjoyed fighting, hunting, and athletic contests <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Peloponnese took to the sea and became fearsome Raiders if other communities; they acquired extraordinary wealth. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Mycenaeans loved decorated objects <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· They constructed palaces that were fortified strongholds <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Archaeological remains reveal very little about the religious practices of these people <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· When they die they are buried in family groups. This reveals that family was very important to them <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Ancient Troy was located across the Aegean Sea from Mycenaean Greece <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Part of the city was built on a hill called the “Place of Fortresses” <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· This was an important location for overland and marine trade <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· For hundreds of years Troy took advantage of passing trade ships by making them pay a large toll <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Homer’s Iliam became extremely powerful and Mycaean city was really wealthy <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Mycenaean Greeks destroyed Troy VI in 1250b.c. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  In 1992, Troy VI remains were being discovered <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· In 1870 a wealthy German merchant found remains of an earlier Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">The Role of the Greeks Gods - Zack - Casey <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Iliad is the earliest work from ancient Greece. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Homeric gods have great knowledge of the future. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Greeks did not require perfection from themselves or their gods. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Homeric gods are not all-powerful. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· While the Greeks lived the gods gave them good or bad advice. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Also by helping them by giving them strength, skill, determination, and by causing weapons to hit or miss their mark. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The gods may disguise themselves as any human. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The Homeric hero gives all his success to the gods or blames them for all his bad luck. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Homeric gods do not change a mortal’s personality or fate. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Since all the Homeric gods are not all-powerful the Greeks can be responsible and important.

__ Appeal and Value __ Whitney, Omar, Nick <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Homer is never interested in surroundings more in human behaviors. His stories don’t portray a hero who gains gifts or immortality by defeating an evil human. He also describes human nature and emotions to wild animals and natural occurrences (Homeric Similes).

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Homeric Hero ( samantha, kim , michael)

kim: <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Ultimately every Greek warrior must choose between dying as a hero or dying an obscure or disgraceful death ( never easy to choose) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Also, he has to choose between his loyalty and responsibility to the individuals he loves most and the loyalty and responsibility he owes to the larger community <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Homeric hero’s decision to accept death in order to give significance and value to his life gives him a dignity, a nobility and I grandeur that doesn’t tarnish with the passage of time <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Principal focus of “The lliad” is on the consequences of a quarrel between Agamemnon, the large commander of all the Greek forces. And Achilles, his greatest warriors. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Greek hero’s cause great harm to their community <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Homer’s attitude toward war and its hero’s are reflected in the values of Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, and Hector <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Achilles personifies what is the best and worst in human nature <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· He also considers to be the first tragic hero in literature <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· In the story he behaves like a selfish child and acts like a brutal beast

Sam: <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Homer changed traditional Trojan War’s lives in the sea forever <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The characters of lliad Trojan heroes <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Human hero’s in Greek <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Honor and fame <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Achilles a greater fighter <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Sky high reputation <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Starving for excellence <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Pride and ignorance <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Ate, and bad behavior <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· God’s grant immorality <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Receives highest accolade

Mike:
 * characters are heroic
 * used to war
 * happier fighting with firends then at home
 * they honerd glory, living, and after death
 * Mycenaean hero did not look at life after death he foucused on controlable things
 * warriors crete is strength, skill, determination courge and moral
 * Arete is an older Warrior who was intellegent.used insight, and intergerity
 * Homeric Hero
 * strives to be the best
 * good is to achieve the greatest glory to earn
 * he feels dishonered if not given the proper prize or attention for his work on the battle field
 * the more gold bronze valuable objects aniamls and land were more power they have
 * In the Illiad the price is the most offective intelligent and killed female captives
 * lasting from places the Hero lower then the gods but higher then the ordinary man


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__Homer and the Oral Tradition__ Naomi, Ketwanna, Steph ** <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Iliad was retold to everyone over and over and people memorized it and told them to others. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Homer was a blind poet from the island of Chios. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Iliad was one of the important books of the Western literature. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">People didn’t know if Homer really existed. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Aethiopis to be the sequel to The Iliad and placed The Iliad in the 8th century or earlier. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Homer viewed himself as the anonymous voice of the muse of epic poetry. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Greeks are complex enough to need writing and which they adopted the Phoenician alphabetic script for their own. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Since the Iliad is a lot longer than The Odyssey it should be recited rather than read. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Odyssey was considered an important part on a Greek student’s education. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A large segment of the Athenian public could read in the 4th century. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The earlier copies of the books were written on rolls of leather or on wooden tablets. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Authors often quoted Homer in their writings. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Many people thought that Homer wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey since he had so much knowledge of epics that were always on his mind. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Homer would repeat stories and sometimes change things up a little to make it more interesting. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Iliad and The Odyssey became incorporated into a group of six other Trojan War epics that were written by many poets in the 7th and 6th century, this group then became known as the Epic Cycle. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Proclus summarized all of the epics and they are as they wrote them to this day. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Because of the fame from The Iliad and The Odyssey confirmed tat Homer was the supreme poet of the ancient Greece. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">People knew the value of Homers words and in that they know and value the Bible

The Odyssey Background:
(first name only) || Info from the text (do not repeat) || ( DONT TOUCH IT ) || Odyssey is a very hard journey, very long and eventfull. ||
 * Name
 * Lindsay || The Odyssey introduces the Homeric Hero to monsters, giants, and a sorceress. ||
 * Mike || The Odyssey is more of a great adventure story and the illiad is an epic and dramatic poem. ||
 * Steph || The Odyssey's plot is simpler than the plot of the Iliad ||
 * Kyle || Some scholars thought two different poets wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey ||
 * sam remp
 * Sam K. || Basic survival is the major issue of the Odyssey, ||
 * Kim || The Odyssey represents a greater cross-section of Mycenean society than those in the Iliad. They were both written by Homer. ||
 * Nolan || The Odyssey characters are more like heroes or villians compared to the Iliad which have complex personalities and display bad traits. ||
 * Shannon || In the Odyssey, the Gods punish people who behave badly, and they don't take sides. ||
 * Naomi || Homer base the Iliad on his youth and the Odyssey was based on his old age. ||
 * Zack || In the Odyssey, women are position of power and dominate the action. ||
 * Ketwana || The basic aspects are completely differentin the Odyssey than the Iliad. ||
 * Omar || The Kings feared horrific changes during the Odyssey. ||
 * Casey S. || The Iliad is a sad ending and the Odyssey has a happy ending. ||
 * Casey R. || The Odyssey combines love, vengence, and trickory into a delightful story. ||
 * Nick || The Odyssey spans the ten years following the Trojan War. ||
 * Whitney ||  ||