1) Homer was born and live during 900 and 800 B.C. He was Greak and lived in area Aage on sea, most of
the people believed he was blind but we don’t know if this is a true statement. Homer sung his stories
and a lot of famous poets wrote what he did in Italian. He is also perhaps the greatest of all epic poets
and his legendary status was well established by the time of Classical Athens. This man is an important
author to read because his poems provided a fixed model of heroism, nobility and the good life to which
all Greeks, especially aristocrats. For example, he is the author of the Llia and Odyssey which are two
hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece and this show the people how of a great literary artist in
the world he is, and the Odyssey is very important to literature. This poem of him wil be important to
literature in a way that it influence it through its narrative structure and the themes and characters
presented in it. Also, for its timeless themes of bravery, family, and loyalty we can still see it today is
some literary works.
2) Epic is a word derived from the Ancient Greek, which means a poetic story. In literature, an epic is a
long narrative poem, which is usually related to heroic deeds of a person of an unusual courage and
unparallel bravely. The 5 main characteristics of an epic ale are Epic hero, Epic Plot, Epic setting, Epic
themes and Archetypes. Epic heroes are literary characters from ancient mythology and other stories
which were written down in the form of long, narrative epic poems. The hero is the main character, or
protagonist, of the poem and the reader follows the epic hero through a series of adventures and
obstacles. Epic Plot means supernatural events, long time periods, distant journeys, life death struggle
between good and evil. Epic setting is the main essential of an epic through the story, which covers
many oceans, write about culture all the epic cover west amount of area like paradise lost tells. Epic
theme is the message that the universe sends. Architype means characters and situations recognizable
across times and cultures.
3) Yes, epic tales exist today and must of them are to entertain child's because little kids are the only
ones who have the power to belief this type of epic tales and that’s because they haven't seen reality
already. For example, one of the epic tales of today is named “The Amber Spyglass’’. This children's epic
tales today are different from Homer’s time in a way that back then the Epic Tales existed to explain
things that were not in people knowledge and now they are made to entertain kids and everyone else.
4)The reason why Homer and writers from other times created this tales was to try to explain something
that they couldn’t know how to explain it, or what happened in reality. They didn’t have enough
knowledge to know why the things happened. So, basically what they did was to imagine and create
those things on their mind and make those tales up.
5) Setting is the time and place or when and where of the story. The setting of ‘’ The Odyssey’’ is during
the saga of the Trojan War. Saga means a long story, specially about something dramatic or about heroic
events. Also, the Trojan War was a war fought by the Greeks against the Trojans to avenge the
abduction of the Helen from her Greek husband Menelaus by Paris, son of the Trojan king. Also, this war
lasted ten years and ended in the sack of Troy.