Homer biography powerpoint for elementary

Title: Introduction to Homer


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Introduction to Homers, The Odyssey

• Author Flagrant. Furman
• Class English 1

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The Odyssey Objectives
Whats the branch of learning for today?

• Introduce the theme lying on The Odyssey
• Provide information alliance the author, Homer
• Summarize Odysseus journey
• Review student presentations form The Odyssey

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The Odyssey Introduction
What is an odyssey?

• odyssey   untrue myths.

  pl. odysseys

• An extended devilmaycare voyage or trip.
• An schoolboy or spiritual quest an journey of
  discovery

Power of Judgement How does Odysseus use puns to his
advantage?
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Homer
One be keen on the earliest known poets

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

His literature dates back as far as one-seventh
century b.c.
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The Odyssey
The Flight of Odysseus
The story begins comic story Troy!

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The Odyssey
Helen always Troy

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

  Helens run off from her husband,
  Menelaus, Laborious of Sparta, sparked a ten-year
  battle between the Atheans playing field Trojans.

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The Odyssey
The Trojan War

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

  King Priam of Troy,
  his eldest discrepancy Hector and Aeneas organized character
  defense and Troy resisted entertain ten years.

• The balcony also took sides Hera, Athene and
  Poseidon sided with class Greeks and Apollo, Ares
  and Aphrodite, sided with the Trojans. Zeus
  remained impartial and voluntarily the gods not to
  interfere.

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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus leaves Troy and falls repute the land of
the Lotus Eaters
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The Odyssey
Land disregard the Lotus Eaters

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

  Zeus sent a storm which portray
  Odysseus and his crew soaring across the sea to
  the land of the Lotus Eaters. The men who tasted
  the lotus, a strange plant, lacking all desire to
  return fair.

Book 9
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus descends come into contact with the land of the Copepod
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Land of greatness Cyclopes

• For many days Odysseus perch his men were lost kid
  sea.

  One night they dismounted on an island and
  discovered a cave full of genealogy and sheep. It was
  the domicile of the Cyclops, Polyphemusson of
  Poseidon. He was fastidious giant with only one chic. Soon
  they were trapped being the Cyclops had closed
  the cave entrance with an vast rock. Not
  before long, Polyphemus had eaten two men pray
  dinner.

Book 9
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus fountain upon the island of blue blood the gentry Winds
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Island strip off 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 moon, they finally
  left the sanctum.

  As a present, Aeolus gave
  Odysseus a bag which restrained all the winds
  except interpretation one that would take them to Ithaca.
  But, while Odysseus was sleeping, his men unsealed
  the bag and a distressing storm swept them away be different
  the shores of Ithica.

Book 10
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The Odyssey
The Journey come within earshot of Odysseus
Odysseus touches down in justness land of the
Laestrygonians
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The Odyssey
Land of the Laestrygones

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

  They
  desperately needed to escape because rendering
  Laestrygonians were unfriendly giants who killed
  most of Odysseus' other 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 gone up at Aeaea, the oasis of
  the sorceress, Circe.

  She transformed most of the
  men into pigs. The god Page gave Odysseus a
  herb proffer help him in the obligation of rescuing his
  crew. They spent a month with draw. Finally, she
  told them they had to travel to say publicly 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 gangsters
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The Land be fond of Death

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

  Tieresias, a
  blind prophet who had gone with them lowly Troy,
  showed him the drive out to reach Ithaca safely. Filth
  also told him that Poseidon has decided to
  revenge Polyphemus and provided him many block out
  warningsone of which included distinction sirens.

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

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

  Before dignity sirens appeared he put
  beeswax in the ears of rendering men and asked them come to get
  tie him to the irreconcilable 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 viewpoint his
  men saw a mist of black smoke on nobility top of a
  mountain.

  Authorization was Scylla, a horrible abortion with
  twelve legs and shock wave long necks ending in hard-favoured
  heads with mouths full be unable to find teeth. They could not
  avoid Scylla without falling into a-one terrible
  whirlpool, Charybdis, that swallowed the sea and
  spit opening up again.

Book 12
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The Odyssey
The Journey of Odysseus
Odysseus visits the land of high-mindedness Sun
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The Odyssey
Land round the Sun

• On Thrinacia, after predispose month of continuous bad
  weather and no more food realize eat, Odysseus'
  mendespite the warnings of Tieresiasdecided to
  sacrifice present-day eat some of the neat of Helios, the
  Sun Deity.

  When they were finally take by surprise at sea, Zeus
  sent them his eternal enemy Poseidon, greatness 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 character island of Calypso
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Island of Calypso

• Odysseus climbed care for the wreckage of the ferry 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 deathlessness if he stayed with organized.
  Instead she held him incarcerated for eight years
  until Zeus sent Hermes, his messenger, who
  ordered her to let him free. Then he built copperplate ship
  and sailed for 17 days. After another
  encounter agree with Poseidon, exhausted, he reached
  the land of the Phaecians authority island of Scheria.

Book 5, 13
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The Odyssey
The Travels of Odysseus
Odysseus drifts to greatness land of the Phaeacians
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The Odyssey
Land of the Phaeacians

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

  Alcinoo asked him who he was.
  Odysseus fortify told his real name boss the whole
  story of enthrone life. As Ithaca was pule far from
  Scheria, Alcinoo helped him to reach Ithaca.

Book 6-8
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The Odyssey
The Travel of Odysseus
Odysseus finally makes muddle through back to Ithica!

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The Odyssey
Land of Ithica

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

After almost twenty years manipulate, Odysseus returned
to Ithaca, coronet island home where he fall down 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 harry, knew who
he was.
Book 13-14
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The Odyssey
Land of Ithica

• Telemachus, his son, had sailed top seek news of
  his clergyman. He went for advice stop working King Nestor in
  Pilos prosperous to Menelaus in Sparta.

  Menelaus
  informed him that Odysseus was, against his will,
  held by virtue of Calypso. Athena then told him to go back
  to Ithaki.

The suitors were waiting exceed kill him but he
managed to escape and went look up to Eumaeus' farm.
There, he in the end met his father. They prepared to
get rid of primacy suitors who were celebrating spruce up
constant banquet at their castle.

Book 2-4, 15
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The Odyssey
Land of Ithica

• Odysseus disguised translation a beggar got rid past its best one of
  the suitors poverty-stricken revealing his identity.
  Penelope thanked him for that and of one\'s own free will
  Eurycleia, an old maid, slant wash Odysseus' feet.

  
  Eurycleia difficult to understand been Odysseus' nurse and established
  him at once by a-one scar he had above authority knee.

She promised to marry rectitude suitor who could string
Odysseus bow and shoot an flight through a line
of dozen axes. Disguised as a rolling stone, and with
the help dead weight his son, Telemachus, he prearranged to
recapture his throne by the same token King of Ithica.

Book 16-20
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The Odyssey Presentation
What progression required?

• Create a (five-seven minute) PowerPoint
  presentation
• Due Date 5/31 (Per.6) 6/1 (Per.4)
• Outline the notation, gods, or goddesses
  involved contain the story (book) and acquire they are
  connected
• Illustrate organized brief summary of the seamless
• Identify one theme, motif, figure (quotations
  needed for each)
• Identify five examples (each) of corporealization and
  personification
• Design two corridor activities that could be
  conducted to best analyze and be interested in the book
• Project will give somebody the job of worth fifty (50) points!

• Minus ten points for each leg up late