Today’s Target’s 12/3/2013
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Understand background knowledge
prior to reading “The Odyssey”
HOMEWORK: In your notes section define the following:
 Epic Hero
 Homeric Simile
 Invocation
 Imagery
Unit Focus
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Essential Question:
 What shapes an individual’s identity?
Well what do you need to
know? I am an infamous
warrior who has been
gone for 20 years,
traveling to magical
islands, visiting the
underworld and fighting
off mythological
monsters….nbd.
#kindofabigdeal
The Judgment of Paris
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Eris (Discord) - unpopular and not invited to an
important wedding
Revenge with an apple – “For the Fairest”
 Aphrodite – goddess of love
 Hera – main goddess
For the Fairest
 Pallas Athena – war and wisdom
Zeus wanting no part sends them to Paris
 Aphrodite – offers most beautiful woman in the world
 Hera – Lord over Europe and Asia
 Athena – great general conquering Greece
Homer’s Poems
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The Illiad
Written about Helen.
Runs off from her
husband Menelaus to
be with Paris (Troy).
Menelaus wasn’t the
biggest fan of this….
Thus the saga of the
Trojan war begins…
Beginnings
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Helen
 Greek princess / most beautiful woman in the world
 Many sought her hand = pact
Menelaus
 Chosen as husband
 Invited Paris into his home – host / guest
 Paris steals Helen and takes her to Troy
Agamemnon
 Commander in Chief of Greek army
 Sacrifices daughter to appease Artemis
The War
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Achilles
 Greatest Greek hero of his time
 Kills Hector and disgraces body
Hector
 Trojan Prince and hero
 Iliad (Ilium or Troy) ends
Achilles death
 Apollo, siding with the Trojans, guides Paris’ arrow
 Achilles heel
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Paris is later killed with the dead Hercules’
new owner)
arrows (shot by
The Trojan Horse
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Odysseus came up with plan – emerging
as the Greek hero
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At first didn’t want to fight in war
Establishes self during war and earns Achilles’
armor
Comes up with plan to trick the Trojans: the
Trojan horse, a giant, hollow, wooden structure.
The plan
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Build a horse and put best warriors inside
All the Greeks pretended to sail away and left
Like this . . .
And the result . . .
The Aftermath
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The Greeks destroyed Troy, a favored city
Rather than give thanks to the Gods, they
committed many dastardly actions, one
being a sacrilege to Athena’s altar
Athena and Poseidon, above all, were
angry and got their revenge
Revenge lasted the longest for Odysseus
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First Greek value: respect the gods
The Odyssey
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Odysseus’ struggle to
return home to Ithaca
from the Trojan War in
Troy
20 years absence from
home
Gods intervene positively
and negatively
A 20 YEAR EPIC
JOURNEY!!!
Characteristics of an Epic Hero
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an impressive hero
an important setting (known and unknown)
I
a journey of importance Amazing,
am all of
these
supernatural forces
things…
glorification of the hero at the end
based in a culture or society
Values of the Greeks
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Hospitality
Loyalty to home and family
Respect for the Gods
Terms to Know
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Epic Hero
Homeric Simile
Invocation
Imagery
The Odyssey:
Central Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
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Themes
 One needs to experience
struggles before he can
fulfill his duty.
 Slyness/sneakiness at
times can be more
powerful than strength.
 There are consequences
when one is tempted to be
unlawful.
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Motifs
 Disguises
 Storytelling
 Homecoming
Symbols
 Odysseus’ bed
The Odyssey: Key Characters
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Odysseus (Epic Hero)
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Penelope (Odysseus’s wife)
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Telemachus (Odysseus’s son)
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Athena (Goddess of wisdom)
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Calypso(Sea nymph)
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Poseidon(God of the sea)
While Reading…
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Be sure to define unknown vocabulary.
Be sure to annotate by using Post-it tabs to
track important themes, motifs, characters,
figurative language, imagery, etc., and the
values of the Greeks.
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