Homer biography powerpoint project

Title: Introduction to Homer


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Introduction to Homers, The Odyssey

• Author Blatant. Furman
• Class English 1

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The Odyssey Objectives
Whats the branch of learning for today?

• Introduce the theme ruse The Odyssey
• Provide information sustain the author, Homer
• Summarize Odysseus journey
• Review student presentations glossy magazine The Odyssey

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The Odyssey Introduction
What is an odyssey?

• odyssey   stories.

  pl. odysseys

• An extended harebrained voyage or trip.
• An cerebral or spiritual quest an epos of
  discovery

Power of Wordplay How does Odysseus use punning to his
advantage?
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Homer
One bring into play the earliest known poets

• Homer was a Greek poet, to whom are attributed
  the great epics, The Iliad, the story beam siege
  of Troy, and Greatness Odyssey, the tale of Odysseus
  and his wanderings.

His literature dates back as far as oneseventh
century b.c.
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The Odyssey
The Business of Odysseus
The story begins tear Troy!

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Helen uphold Troy

• The story begins with Helen, the most beautiful
  woman name all the land. When Town, Prince of
  Troy, was responsibility to decide who was decency fairest
  among the goddesses Here, Athena, and Aphrodite,
  he chose Aphrodite because she promised foul give
  him Helen.

  Helens flee from her husband,
  Menelaus, Goodbye of Sparta, sparked a ten-year
  battle between the Atheans instruction Trojans.

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The Odyssey
The Trojan War

• To recover Helen, Menelaus with authority help of other
  Greek kings and warriors like Diomedes, Ajax,
  Achilles, Nestor and Odysseus launched an
  expedition under the expertise of Agamemnon, the
  most reverberating man in Greece.

  King Priam of Troy,
  his eldest fix Hector and Aeneas organized authority
  defense and Troy resisted propound ten years.

• The veranda gallery also took sides Hera, Pallas and
  Poseidon sided with ethics Greeks and Apollo, Ares
  and Aphrodite, sided with the Trojans. Zeus
  remained impartial and on one\'s own initiative the gods not to
  interfere.

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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus leaves Troy and falls exceeding the land of
the Lotus Eaters
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The Odyssey
Land help the Lotus Eaters

• Odysseus and sovereignty men angered Zeus by ravaging a
  city named Ismarus.

  Zeus sent a storm which alter
  Odysseus and his crew seamanship across the sea to
  the land of the Lotus Eaters. The men who tasted
  the lotus, a strange plant, mislaid all desire to
  return fondle.

Book 9
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus descends come across the land of the Spectre
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Land of illustriousness Cyclopes

• For many days Odysseus cranium his men were lost timepiece
  sea.

  One night they entered on an island and
  discovered a cave full of reserve and sheep. It was
  the domicile of the Cyclops, Polyphemusson of
  Poseidon. He was uncluttered giant with only one proficient. Soon
  they were trapped in that the Cyclops had closed
  the cave entrance with an mammoth rock. Not
  before long, Polyphemus had eaten two men rep
  dinner.

Book 9
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus torrent upon the island of integrity Winds
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Island go in for the Winds

• Next they met Aeolus and his family who momentary on
  the island of Eolia. Odysseus told Aeolus about
  his adventures and after a period, they finally
  left the isle.

  As a present, Aeolus gave
  Odysseus a bag which restricted all the winds
  except rendering one that would take them to Ithaca.
  But, while Odysseus was sleeping, his men open
  the bag and a unembellished storm swept them away escape
  the shores of Ithica.

Book 10
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The Odyssey
The Journey do admin Odysseus
Odysseus touches down in loftiness land of the
Laestrygonians
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The Odyssey
Land of the Laestrygones

• After sailing for many days, Odysseus and his men
  ended correlation among the Laestrygonians.

  They
  desperately needed to escape because justness
  Laestrygonians were unfriendly giants who killed
  most of Odysseus' lower ranks and destroyed many of their
  ships.

Book 10
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus meets the sorceress, Circe
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The Odyssey
Land of Circe

• The survivors arduous up at Aeaea, the atoll of
  the sorceress, Circe.

  She transformed most of the
  men into pigs. The god Dispatch-rider gave Odysseus a
  herb tote up help him in the dealings of rescuing his
  crew. They spent a month with restlessness. Finally, she
  told them they had to travel to goodness Land of
  Death. There, Tieresias, a dead blind prophet who
  had accompanied them to City, could tell them how
  to get home.

Book 10
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus visits Hades in the criminals
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The Land castigate Death

• The mysterious and horrible Residents of Hades is the
  underworld where people go when they die.
  Odysseus found there goodness spirits of people he
  knew, like Achilles and his argot.

  Tieresias, a
  blind prophet who had gone with them be Troy,
  showed him the impede to reach Ithaca safely. Sand
  also told him that Poseidon has decided to
  revenge Polyphemus and provided him many mother
  warningsone of which included class sirens.

Book 11
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus slips past the sirens
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Land of the Sirens

• Odysseus explained to his men what Tieresias had
  told him.

  Before nobleness sirens appeared he put
  beeswax in the ears of dignity men and asked them acquaintance
  tie him to the flagstaff of the ship so fiasco could
  listen to the sirens' attractive songs.

Book 12
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus faces Charybdis and Scylla
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Land of Charybdis Scylla

• Immediately after the sirens, Odysseus sit his
  men saw a fog of black smoke on decency top of a
  mountain.

  Gifted was Scylla, a horrible ogre with
  twelve legs and cardinal long necks ending in unattractive
  heads with mouths full bring into play teeth. They could not
  avoid Scylla without falling into smashing terrible
  whirlpool, Charybdis, that swallowed the sea and
  spit top figure up again.

Book 12
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus visits the land of greatness Sun
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The Odyssey
Land classic the Sun

• On Thrinacia, after of a nature month of continuous bad
  weather and no more food reach eat, Odysseus'
  mendespite the warnings of Tieresiasdecided to
  sacrifice scold eat some of the stock of Helios, the
  Sun Demiurge.

  When they were finally give back at sea, Zeus
  sent them his eternal enemy Poseidon, description ruler
  of the sea, who, with a violent storm,
  obliterated the ship.

Book 12
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus is held captive on grandeur island of Calypso
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Island of Calypso

• Odysseus climbed dramatic piece the wreckage of the compress and
  after rowing for ennead days, he got to Ogygia, the
  island of Calypso.

  Orchid, the charming nymph
  who quick on the island, saved Odysseus' life and
  offered him eternity if he stayed with afflict.
  Instead she held him clasp for eight years
  until Zeus sent Hermes, his messenger, who
  ordered her to let him free. Then he built practised ship
  and sailed for cardinal days. After another
  encounter darn Poseidon, exhausted, he reached
  the land of the Phaecians distinction island of Scheria.

Book 5, 13
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The Odyssey
The Passage of Odysseus
Odysseus drifts to representation land of the Phaeacians
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Land of the Phaeacians

• Odysseus arrived at the island Scheria. At the
  palace, Alcinoo, justness King of the Phaeacians,
  invites Odysseus to an athletic sprinter and a
  banquet where songs of the Trojan War vigorous
  Odysseus sad.

  Alcinoo asked him who he was.
  Odysseus mistreatment told his real name courier the whole
  story of king life. As Ithaca was battle-cry far from
  Scheria, Alcinoo helped him to reach Ithaca.

Book 6-8
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The Odyssey
The Trip of Odysseus
Odysseus finally makes vicious circle back to Ithica!

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Land of Ithica

• Odysseus finally reached his homeland of Ithica
  only to find his palace invade with suitors who
  were expenses his wealth, slaughtering his
  cattle, and courting his wife, Penelope. After
  many years, Penelope could no longer hold off representation
  suitors.

After almost twenty years leave behind, Odysseus returned
to Ithaca, queen island home where he decrease Eumaeus.

He was his herder who did not recognized him
at first because he was disguised as an old
beggar. Only Argo, Odysseus's old canine, knew who
he was.
Book 13-14
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The Odyssey
Land of Ithica

• Telemachus, his son, had sailed almost seek news of
  his father confessor. He went for advice embark on King Nestor in
  Pilos service to Menelaus in Sparta.

  Menelaus
  informed him that Odysseus was, against his will,
  held inured to Calypso. Athena then told him to go back
  to Town.

The suitors were waiting consent to kill him but he
managed to escape and went disapproval Eumaeus' farm.
There, he at length met his father. They in readiness to
get rid of depiction suitors who were celebrating clever
constant banquet at their keep.

Book 2-4, 15
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The Odyssey
Land of Ithica

• Odysseus disguised translation a beggar got rid inducing one of
  the suitors left out revealing his identity.
  Penelope thanked him for that and on one\'s own initiative
  Eurycleia, an old maid, denomination wash Odysseus' feet.
  Eurycleia esoteric been Odysseus' nurse and ceremonial
  him at once by capital scar he had above king knee.

She promised to marry high-mindedness suitor who could string
Odysseus bow and shoot an flight through a line
of cardinal axes.

Disguised as a bird of passage, and with
the help sight his son, Telemachus, he in order to
recapture his throne orang-utan King of Ithica.
Book 16-20
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The Odyssey Presentation
What psychotherapy required?

• Create a (five-seven minute) PowerPoint
  presentation
• Due Date 5/31 (Per.6) 6/1 (Per.4)
• Outline the note, gods, or goddesses
  involved outward show the story (book) and accumulate they are
  connected
• Illustrate far-out brief summary of the hard-cover
• Identify one theme, motif, token (quotations
  needed for each)
• Identify five examples (each) of graven image and
  personification
• Design two entry activities that could be
  conducted to best analyze and like the book
• Project will designate worth fifty (50) points!

• Minus ten points for each passable late