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The Odyssey An Epic Adventure

Essentail Questions: What are the characteristics of an epic hero? How is an epic different from other types of poetry?. The Odyssey An Epic Adventure. Literary Terms .

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The Odyssey An Epic Adventure

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  1. Essentail Questions: What are the characteristics of an epic hero? How is an epic different from other types of poetry? The OdysseyAn Epic Adventure

  2. Literary Terms • Epic Hero – A hero who has a to complete a long journey and is faced with many trials and tribulations along the way – See Hand out for further • Homeric Simile (Epic Simile/Heroic Simile) – a simile that compares something from the mythological world to something familiar to the everyday audience listening to the poem.

  3. Literary Terms • Irony – When the opposite of what is expected occurs • Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic • Theme – What the author wants to say about the human experience. Universal themes are those that applies to Homer’s audience and for us today. • En medias res: To begin in the middle of a story

  4. Literary Terms • Flashback – interrupting the chronological order of a story and telling something that occurred earlier in time. • Framestory – a story within a story. When there is a main story and within the main story there are many different stories • Epithet – A description that often accompanies someone’s name. Often used with larger than life figures Ex: Andre the Giant

  5. Literary Terms • Extended Metaphor – a metaphor that continues over several lines of poetry • Myths – a story rooted in a particular culture that attempts to explain a belief ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon (see handout for further info)

  6. Vocabulary 1-10 • Tantalize – to tease or torment by presenting something desirable to the view, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping it out of reach • Nemesis – One who takes vengeance; act of retribution • Chronological – Containing an account of events in the order of time

  7. Vocabulary 1-10 • Mercurial – Light hearted; gay; sprightly; flighty; fickle; pertaining to quicksilver • Herculean – Very difficult or dangerous • Narcissism – A morbid love and admiration of self • Elysian – Exceedingly delightful

  8. Vocabulary 1-10 • Halcyon – Calm; quiet; peaceful • Lucid – Bright; clear; easily understandable; rational or sane • Chaos – A scene of extreme confusion; disorder

  9. Odyssey Overview • Book = Chapters in a novel or an act in a play • Homeric Simile, or extended metaphor compares two things in an elevated style and identifies the two subjects being compared by the mark of punctuation called a semicolon

  10. Odyssey Overview • An example of a Homeric Simile found in the opening of the Odyssey compares Hermes’ flight to a sea gull catching fish on lines 41-47 • In this epic there are many Homeric similes named for the blind minstrel creator named Homer

  11. Overview Part 1; Books 1-4 • About Telemachus, Odysseus’ son who searched for information to prove that Odysseus is alive • Athena (goddess of wisdom) aids him • Three Greek kings are visited: Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Nestor • Telemachus gains wisdom, maturity, and confidence by completing this voyage

  12. Overview Part II; Books 5-12 • About Odysseus, the Greek king who struggles to return home for 10 years • The gods, Zeus, Hermes, Aeoleus, and the goddess Athena aid his journey home • Poseidon opposes his journey home because his son, the cyclops named Polyphemus wanted his blinding to be avenged

  13. Overview Part II; Books 5-12 • The Cicones, the cyclops, scylla, the Lastrygonians, and Zeus kill many of Odysseus’ crew • Odysseus’ crew is also detained by the Lotus Eaters and the witch-goddess Circe turns them into pigs

  14. Overview Part II; books 5-12 • Odysseus is the only living being to travel to the Land of the Dead (a paradox) to speak to the blind prophet Teiresias, listen to the sirens’ song, and survive the narrow waterway straight by succumbing to Scylla who eats six of his men, instead of permitting Charybdis to crash his entire ship in her whirlpool

  15. Overview Part II; Books 5-12 • Three beautiful ladies also want to keeyp Odysseus for their own; Circe (witch-goddess), Calypso (the nymph goddess), & the Princess Nausicaa • Odysseus finally makes it home to Ithaca, thanks to the sacrifice and transportation provided by the Phaeacians of Scheria, one of Ithaca’s neighbors

  16. Overview Part III; Books 13-24 • Odysseus finally reunites with his son and his faithful wife, Penelope, who has waited for his return for 20 years • Unfortunately, the suitors don’t want to believe that Odysseus has returned, but the Olympian powers of Zeus and Athena aid Odysseus in this final battle

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