Thursday, March 14, 2019

Odysseus


 1) It Took Odysseus ten years to return home from the Trojan War.
2) This trip according to Google maps should have taken two weeks.
3) During the twelfth century B.C.E. 
4)  Homer composed the Odyssey in the eighth century B.C.E
5) A "Epic poem" is an Long Narrative poem, on a serious subject, Written in a grand or elevated style, written about a larger than life hero.
6) Odysseus' wife's name is Penelope.
7) Odysseus' Sons name is Telomoccus.
8) In the Cave of the Cyclops Odysseus gets the cyclops drunk and then spears his eye causing the cyclops to be blind. He told the cyclops his name is noman so when he would yell noman is killing me the other cyclops would come. He then tells the cyclops his name and the cyclops yelled curses down at him and his crew members died.
9) Odysseus is considered a hero, because he had an extraordinary attribute or ability, he was very wise and could do things no one else could using his wisdom.
10) ".....And so she rejoiced, Her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."

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