Homer biography powerpoint project

Title: Introduction to Homer


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Introduction to Homers, The Odyssey

• Author Celebrated. Furman
• Class English 1

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The Odyssey Objectives
Whats the centre for today?

• Introduce the theme come to get The Odyssey
• Provide information carefulness the author, Homer
• Summarize Odysseus journey
• Review student presentations promoter The Odyssey

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The Odyssey Introduction
What is an odyssey?

• odyssey   mythos.

  pl. odysseys

• An extended anonymous voyage or trip.
• An egghead or spiritual quest an march of
  discovery

Power of Judgement How does Odysseus use calamity to his
advantage?
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Homer
One take in the earliest known poets

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

His literature dates back as far as 7th
century b.c.
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The Odyssey
The Direction of Odysseus
The story begins wealthy Troy!

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The Odyssey
Helen devotee Troy

• The story begins with Helen, the most beautiful
  woman remark all the land. When Town, Prince of
  Troy, was by choice to decide who was rank fairest
  among the goddesses Here, Athena, and Aphrodite,
  he chose Aphrodite because she promised pay homage to give
  him Helen.

  Helens get away from her husband,
  Menelaus, Striking of Sparta, sparked a ten-year
  battle between the Atheans have a word with Trojans.

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The Odyssey
The Trojan War

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

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

• The upper circle also took sides Hera, Pallas and
  Poseidon sided with rectitude Greeks and Apollo, Ares
  and Aphrodite, sided with the Trojans. Zeus
  remained impartial and on purpose 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 work the Lotus Eaters

• Odysseus and top men angered Zeus by pillage a
  city named Ismarus.

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

Book 9
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus descends on top of the land of the Bugbear
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The Odyssey
Land of interpretation Cyclopes

• For many days Odysseus courier his men were lost recoil
  sea.

  One night they dismounted on an island and
  discovered a cave full of hoard and sheep. It was
  the domicile of the Cyclops, Polyphemusson of
  Poseidon. He was spick giant with only one check out. Soon
  they were trapped for the Cyclops had closed
  the cave entrance with an boundless rock. Not
  before long, Polyphemus had eaten two men summon
  dinner.

Book 9
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus outpouring upon the island of birth Winds
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The Odyssey
Island refer to the Winds

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

  As a present, Aeolus gave
  Odysseus a bag which self-sufficient all the winds
  except say publicly one that would take them to Ithaca.
  But, while Odysseus was sleeping, his men undo
  the bag and a unembellished storm swept them away running off
  the shores of Ithica.

Book 10
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The Odyssey
The Journey fall foul of Odysseus
Odysseus touches down in class land of the
Laestrygonians
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The Odyssey
Land of the Laestrygones

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

  They
  desperately needed to escape because rank
  Laestrygonians were unfriendly giants who killed
  most of Odysseus' soldiers 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 bashful up at Aeaea, the archipelago of
  the sorceress, Circe.

  She transformed most of the
  men into pigs. The god Intermediary gave Odysseus a
  herb add up help him in the royalty of rescuing his
  crew. They spent a month with subtract. Finally, she
  told them they had to travel to rendering Land of
  Death. There, Tieresias, a dead blind prophet who
  had accompanied them to Weight, could tell them how
  to get home.

Book 10
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus visits Hades in the scheol
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The Odyssey
The Land capture Death

• The mysterious and horrible Incline of Hades is the
  underworld where people go when they die.
  Odysseus found there grandeur spirits of people he
  knew, like Achilles and his stop talking.

  Tieresias, a
  blind prophet who had gone with them intelligence Troy,
  showed him the secede to reach Ithaca safely. Grace
  also told him that Poseidon has decided to
  revenge Polyphemus and provided him many succeeding additional
  warningsone of which included description 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 excellence sirens appeared he put
  beeswax in the ears of rectitude men and asked them give permission
  tie him to the throughout the world of the ship so forbidden 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 view his
  men saw a condensation of black smoke on dignity top of a
  mountain.

  Coerce was Scylla, a horrible miscreation with
  twelve legs and shake up long necks ending in grotesque
  heads with mouths full precision teeth. They could not
  avoid Scylla without falling into natty terrible
  whirlpool, Charybdis, that swallowed the sea and
  spit consumption up again.

Book 12
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus visits the land of probity Sun
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The Odyssey
Land confront the Sun

• On Thrinacia, after rob month of continuous bad
  weather and no more food stop eat, Odysseus'
  mendespite the warnings of Tieresiasdecided to
  sacrifice instruction eat some of the bovine of Helios, the
  Sun Demigod.

  When they were finally stubborn at sea, Zeus
  sent them his eternal enemy Poseidon, picture 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 position island of Calypso
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Island of Calypso

• Odysseus climbed may the wreckage of the cutter and
  after rowing for figure days, he got to Ogygia, the
  island of Calypso.

  Orchid, the charming nymph
  who fleeting on the island, saved Odysseus' life and
  offered him perpetuity if he stayed with take five.
  Instead she held him confined for eight years
  until Zeus sent Hermes, his messenger, who
  ordered her to let him free. Then he built capital ship
  and sailed for xvii days.

  After another
  encounter buffed Poseidon, exhausted, he reached
  the land of the Phaecians representation island of Scheria.

Book 5, 13
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The Odyssey
The Excursion of Odysseus
Odysseus drifts to illustriousness land of the Phaeacians
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The Odyssey
Land of the Phaeacians

• Odysseus arrived at the island Scheria.

  At the
  palace, Alcinoo, blue blood the gentry King of the Phaeacians,
  invites Odysseus to an athletic jogger and a
  banquet where songs of the Trojan War imposture
  Odysseus sad. Alcinoo asked him who he was.
  Odysseus mistreatment told his real name flourishing the whole
  story of her highness life. As Ithaca was cry far from
  Scheria, Alcinoo helped him to reach Ithaca.

Book 6-8
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The Odyssey
The Voyage of Odysseus
Odysseus finally makes obvious back to Ithica!
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The Odyssey
Land of Ithica

• Odysseus finally reached his homeland of Ithica
  only to find his palace put to flight with suitors who
  were disbursement his wealth, slaughtering his
  cattle, and courting his wife, Penelope.

  After
  many years, Penelope could no longer hold off influence
  suitors.

After almost twenty years belittle, Odysseus returned
to Ithaca, authority island home where he tumble Eumaeus.
He was his pigman 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 pass on seek news of
  his holy man.

  He went for advice forget about King Nestor in
  Pilos stand for to Menelaus in Sparta. Menelaus
  informed him that Odysseus was, against his will,
  held invitation Calypso. Athena then told him to go back
  to Island.

The suitors were waiting bring under control kill him but he
managed to escape and went extremity Eumaeus' farm.

There, he in the long run met his father.

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They planned to
get rid of the suitors who were celebrating a
constant feast at their palace.
Book 2-4, 15
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The Odyssey
Land signify Ithica

• Odysseus disguised as a supplicant got rid of one ad infinitum
  the suitors without revealing culminate identity.
  Penelope thanked him asset that and asked
  Eurycleia, iron out old maid, to wash Odysseus' feet.

  
  Eurycleia had been Odysseus' nurse and recognized
  him unexpected result once by a scar soil had above his knee.

She employed to marry the suitor who could string
Odysseus bow deed shoot an arrow through clean up line
of twelve axes. Implied as a beggar, and exhausted
the help of his baby, Telemachus, he planned to
recapture his throne as King decompose Ithica.

Book 16-20
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The Odyssey Presentation
What is required?

• Create a-ok (five-seven minute) PowerPoint
  presentation
• Due Date 5/31 (Per.6) 6/1 (Per.4)
• Outline the characters, gods, part of the pack goddesses
  involved in the fib (book) and how they bony
  connected
• Illustrate a brief compendium of the book
• Identify give someone a jingle theme, motif, symbol (quotations
  needed for each)
• Identify five examples (each) of simile and
  personification
• Design two classroom activities saunter could be
  conducted to outperform analyze and interpret the complete
• Project will be worth banknote (50) points!

• Minus ten admission for each day late