A background to the Odyssey Flashcards
Aphrodite
Goddess of love, daughter of Zeus
Apollo
God of music, health and son of Zeus
Ares
God of War
Artemis
Goddess of hunting
Athene
Goddess of wisdom and of Athens
Dionysus
God of wine
Demeter
Goddess of harvest
Hades
God of the underworld
Hera
Wife of Zeus and queen of heaven
Hermes
Messenger of Zeus
Poseidon
King of all the Gods and men
Zeus
Goddess of wisdom and of Athene
Minoan
Known for advanced art and architecture
Mycenean
Known for military prowess and conquest
Citadel
A fortress that controls a city, a fortified city centre
Tholos
A circular building with a conical or vaulted roof
When was the Cycladic period?
3200BC - 1100BC
When was the Minoan period?
2700BC-1500BC
When was the mycanean period?
1900BC-1100BC
When was the Archaic period?
800BC - 500BC
When was the classical period?
500BC - 323BC
When was the helenistic period?
323BC- 146BC
When was the roman period?
146BC - 330AD
When was Byzantine period?
330AD - 1453AD
When was the ottoman period?
1453AD - 1821AD
What was the odyssey before it was written down?
‘oral poetry’ that was memorised and spoken, probably to musical accompaniment like a drum beat and lyre.
Who could have written homer?
A number of bards
When is the original composition of the odyssey beleived to be?
8th century BCE
- We have no evidence for the poet homer,
When is the Odyssey set?
C.1200BCE
What time did homer live?
8th Century BCE Archaic Greek age, the world of Odysseus was the earlier Mycenaeans Bronze Age
What was the Minoan era a time of?
A collision of ideas which reasulted in extraordianry culture
What is Athenes sometimes descirbed as?
Civilisation at its peak
Herodotus
The worlds first historian
Chaos
Greek word for void, everything arose from the void
