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The Odyssey Flashcards

1
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Epithets

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A descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing

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Epic similes

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Compare heroic events in the story with common everyday events. Quite long, detailed comparison

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Epic style features two particular elements:

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Epithets and epic similes

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In epic poetry the narrative starts:

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In the middle of things

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5
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Epics open with:

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An invocation to the muse and statement of the theme

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Literary epics share

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Hero national/cosmic importance
Settings of ample scale
Action involved superhuman deeds, dangerous journey, opposition of the gods
Epic poem is ceremonial performance

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What is an epic poem

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A long verse narrative on a serious subject/ celebrating heroic achievements
Told in Formal elevated style
Centered on a hero whose actions depends the fate of human race, tribe nation

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Epic poem had catalogs of

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Participants, sacrifices

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9
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Epic poems frequently use

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Epic similes and ephithets

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Patronymics

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Calling son by father name

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Archetypes

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Characters and situations recognizable across times and cultures
Brave hero, suitors contest
Evil temptress, loyal see vent

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Epic plot

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Depicts a long strange journey filled with complications like strange creatures, divine intervention, treacherous weather, large scale events

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Epic themes

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Reflect universal concerns

Courage, loyalty, beauty, the fate of a nation, life and death, a homecoming

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Epic setting

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Includes fantastic or exotic lands, involves more than on nation or culture

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Helios

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Sun God, raises his cattle on the island of thrinacia

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16
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Zeus

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The ruler of the Greek gods and goddesses, father of Athena and Apollo

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17
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Telemachus

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Odysseus son

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18
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Penelope

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Odysseus wide

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19
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Alcinous

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The king of the Phaeacians

20
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Circe

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A goddess and enchantress who lives on the isaland of aeaea, turns men into pigs

21
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King Alcinous

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Man who throws a babquet for Odysseus and asks him to tell who he is and what happened to him

22
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Elements of an epic hero

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Main character hero-supernatural abilities or qualities, charged with a quest, tested, presence of mythical beings, human helpers and companions, travel takes him to supernatural world, low point, resurrection and restitution, regaining rightful place

23
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Cicones

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Allies of Trojan, enemies of Odysseus

Odysseus robs and kills them but they kill 72 of Odysseus men

24
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Who gave Odysseus the wine

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Euanthes son, Maron

25
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Who is Aeolus

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Wind King

26
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Laestrygones

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Land of cannibals hitting the fleet with boulders

27
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Who doesn’t trust Circe and feared a snare

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Eurylochus

28
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Who gives Odysseus the play moly to protect him from circes power

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Hermes

29
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What prophet does Odysseus go to see in the land of the dead

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The ghost of Tiresias

30
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What ghost does Odysseus meet of his crew

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Elpenor

31
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Prince of Thebes

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Tiresias the ghost prophet

32
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Charybdis

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Whirl pool, would kill all his men instead of six

33
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Who disguises Odysseus

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Athena

34
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Faithful swine herd who hides Telemachus

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Eumaeus

35
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Suitors that are rude and demanding

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Antonia and Eurymachus

36
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Most trusted servents

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Eumaeus the swine herd
And phileotius the cowherd
They lock the door of the room

37
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Anti nous

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First to die arrow in throat

Best in Ithaca

38
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Who was ringleader of the suitors

A

Antinous

39
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Who speaks out to Odysseus, blames everything on antinous and asks him to spare them and bribe him and who rallied the men

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Eurymachus

40
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Who was killed by Telemachus spear throw

A

Amphinomus

41
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Eurynome

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Female servant, bathed him before meeting Penelope

42
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Hephaestus

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God of metal work

43
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Actoris

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Odysseus own slave have seen the bed

44
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Allusion

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An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work

45
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Who is the swine herd

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Eumaeus the swine herd

46
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Who was the cowherd

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phileotius the cowherd

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