The Iliad And The Odyssey By Homer

The Iliad And The Odyssey By Homer - Transcript

The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
Ch 6 3 Classic Play Scope Magazine Video The Trojan War 23m Video The Journeys of Odysseus 23m
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The Trojan War
The Iliad an epic written by Homer tells of a war between Greece and the city of Troy c1250 BC Legend says the war was caused by the most beautiful woman in the world Helen the princess of Sparta All Greek men wanted to marry her but her father made them swear support to the man he chose as her husband
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The Trojan War
Menelaus of Sparta was chosen as Helen s husband Helen fell in love with Paris the son of King Priam of Troy When they met and fell in love they ran away to Troy Menelaus was furious and organized a great military expedition to bring Helen back

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Ten Years and No Gain
For ten years the Greeks battled with Troy The city had a high wall and the Greeks could not find a way to enter the city The Greek king Odysseus thought of a way to get into the city He got his men to build a large wooden horse and rolled it to the city gates The Greeks boarded their ships and sailed4 away

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The Trojan Horse
The people of Troy thought the horse was a gift opened the gates and rolled the horse inside Inside were 30 Greek soldiers That night the Greeks crept outside and opened the city gates The Greek army returned to storm in and destroy the city
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The Odyssey
Three thousand years ago a legend explains that a soldier named Odysseus helped the Greeks defeat the Trojans in a bloody 10 year war Getting home to his family will be even harder for Odysseus than winning the war Odysseus is given credit for the idea of the Trojan Horse
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Question for Thought
If your father were missing in action after a war how long would you wait before you gave up on him ever returning home If he came back would you recognize him

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Characters
Odysseus o DIS e us soldier and king of Ithaca Telemachus tel EM ah cus his son Penelope Odysseus wife Cyclops an evil giant Nestor Odysseus war buddy Menelaus men a LEY us another war buddy Athena goddess of wisdom Poseidon po SIGH don god of the sea Suitors seeking love of Penelope
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Homer
According to legend the blind poet Homer told the story of Odysseus life about 750 B C centuries before the tale was ever written down The trouble is no one knows much about the great poet Even the ancient Greeks couldn t agree on when Homer lived and who he was Today experts still disagree about whether one poet wrote the famous epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey
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Directions
Read the play on pages 14 20 After you have read the play carefully take a question sheet from the front table Using notebook paper write complete sentence answers for each question Keep your work when you finish

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