Context

Question 1

What’s an epic?

Answer 1

Long narrative poem about heroic deeds/ events/ people which is significant to that poet’s culture

Question 2

Features of a Homeric epic?

Answer 2

Epic similes, epithets, formulaic lines, digressions

Question 3

What’s the first theory on the Homeric Question?

Answer 3

Orally by a single poet, then written down via dictation (as homer was blind)

Question 4

What’s the second theory on the Homeric Question?

Answer 4

Composed by different bards, collated by editors

Question 5

What’s the etymology of Homer’s name?

Answer 5

Join together

Question 6

What era was The Odyssey written?

Answer 6

Mycenaean Bronze Age

Question 7

What’s the word for excellence?

Answer 7

Arete

Question 8

What does Athene tell Tele is an important aspect of Time?

Answer 8

Must be mutual

Question 9

What’s the Greek word for summoning the dead?

Answer 9

Nekyia

Question 10

History of epics

Answer 10

composed by a Greek who lived in Ionia around 725-700 BC (Homer)

Question 11

Structure of the Homeric epics

Answer 11

dactylic hexameter

Question 12

When were Homer’s epics standardised?

Answer 12

By the third century when many texts had been collected for the library at Alexandria

Question 13

The importance of bards

Answer 13

Odysseus himself assumes the role of a bard in three books. Two trained bards: Phemius in book 1 and Demodocus’ three songs in book 8