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A: The odyssey > A background to the Odyssey > Flashcards

A background to the Odyssey Flashcards

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Aphrodite

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Goddess of love, daughter of Zeus

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Apollo

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God of music, health and son of Zeus

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Ares

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God of War

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Artemis

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Goddess of hunting

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Athene

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Goddess of wisdom and of Athens

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Dionysus

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God of wine

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Demeter

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Goddess of harvest

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Hades

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God of the underworld

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Hera

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Wife of Zeus and queen of heaven

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Hermes

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Messenger of Zeus

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Poseidon

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King of all the Gods and men

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Zeus

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Goddess of wisdom and of Athene

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Minoan

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Known for advanced art and architecture

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Mycenean

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Known for military prowess and conquest

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Citadel

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A fortress that controls a city, a fortified city centre

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Tholos

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A circular building with a conical or vaulted roof

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When was the Cycladic period?

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3200BC - 1100BC

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When was the Minoan period?

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2700BC-1500BC

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When was the mycanean period?

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1900BC-1100BC

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When was the Archaic period?

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800BC - 500BC

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When was the classical period?

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500BC - 323BC

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When was the helenistic period?

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323BC- 146BC

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When was the roman period?

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146BC - 330AD

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When was Byzantine period?

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330AD - 1453AD

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When was the ottoman period?

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1453AD - 1821AD

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What was the odyssey before it was written down?

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‘oral poetry’ that was memorised and spoken, probably to musical accompaniment like a drum beat and lyre.

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Who could have written homer?

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A number of bards

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When is the original composition of the odyssey beleived to be?

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8th century BCE
- We have no evidence for the poet homer,

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When is the Odyssey set?

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C.1200BCE

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What time did homer live?

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8th Century BCE Archaic Greek age, the world of Odysseus was the earlier Mycenaeans Bronze Age

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What was the Minoan era a time of?

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A collision of ideas which reasulted in extraordianry culture

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What is Athenes sometimes descirbed as?

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Civilisation at its peak

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Herodotus

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The worlds first historian

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Chaos

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Greek word for void, everything arose from the void

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