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Oral Traditions

Oral Traditions. Homer and The Trojan War: History or Myth?. Do now: 3/20/14. Take out your Trojan War HW questions to be checked for points. Refresh your memory about this war and check your answer with your neighbor.

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Oral Traditions

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  1. Oral Traditions Homer and The Trojan War: History or Myth?

  2. Do now: 3/20/14 • Take out your Trojan War HW questions to be checked for points. • Refresh your memory about this war and check your answer with your neighbor. • Remember to post your blog response by this evening (period 1) and tomorrow (period 4)

  3. Trojan War- fact or fiction? • How did the story of the Trojan War come to be if it is not historical fact?

  4. Oral tradition • An oral tradition is the manner in which information is passed from one generation to the next in the absence of writing or a recording medium. • Why do people tell stories?

  5. Oral tradition continued • In the days before near-universal literacy, bards would sing or chant their people's stories. They employed various (mnemonic) techniques to aid in their own memory and to help their listeners keep track of the story. This oral tradition was a way to keep the history or culture of the people alive, and since it was a form of story-telling, it was a popular entertainment.

  6. Oral Tradition Telephone • Small groups of five • Each make up a one minute story about the legend of the Watchung Hills Warrior (3-4 sentences) • Tell the story to the next group • Retell the story you just learned from the previous group (no dramatic changes please)

  7. Reflect-in your notebook • What happens to stories when told orally? Why do you think this is? • Write a short paragraph in your notebook

  8. What happens when it’s not written? • Stories change • Stories become embellished depending on who tells it and their affiliations with the characters • Stories can be misheard or misinterpreted when told to a new audience

  9. Mythology • A set of stories, traditions, or beliefs associated with a particular group or the history of an natural or manmade event. • Myths began as part of the ancient oral tradition of storytelling

  10. Trojan War- Fact or Myth? • Read the National Geographic article titled “Is Troy True?” and write down at least 3 pieces of evidence from the article about the different theories of the “real” Troy and Trojan War that make it myth and not fact.

  11. Food for thought… • Why learn about myths like the Trojan War if they are not fact?

  12. Why learn about it? • Learn about other cultures through their stories • What were the people like? What did they believe in? Why did their culture survive or not survive? • Learn about the origins of our own culture through stories • Gain insight about moral conduct • How should we act so that bad things do not happen to use or how should we act so that good things happen?

  13. Do Now 3.21.14 • Take Vocab Unit 6 packet from Do Now tray and put in your binder (due next day 4-next Thursday) • Answer in notebook: • What do you think of when you think of the word “epic”?

  14. HOMER-the blind poet • Lived around 850 B.C. • Credited for the epic poem The Illiad (about the last of 10 years of the Trojan War) and The Odyssey (the return of the great solider Odysseus to his homeland of Ithica) • His stories began as oral tradition • His verses (poetry) were not written down until around 700 BC when Greeks began their own alphabet derived from the Phoenicians

  15. Translations • There are many translations of Homers tale • We know the story through the painstaking work of translators with a deep knowledge of ancient Greek and a flare for language. • Some translations of The Odyssey are written in prose, and some as poetry • There are subtle and sometimes striking differences between different translations • We will be reading Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of the epic

  16. Homer- why learn his work? • He provided a common set of values that enshrined the Greeks' own ideas about themselves  • We know how the Greeks saw themselves because of him (great, strong, courageous…) • His works tell us of the morals the Greeks lived by • His poems reveal that disgrace due to dishonor is the worst that can happen to a hero, and a short life of glorious deeds is considered far superior to a long life of peace and mediocrity, since by great deeds a man might become immortal. 

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