help with homework on Homer's "the Odyssey"?
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Too broad, what specifically do you need? If you want some study guides, check out pinkmonkey.com, cliffnotes.com, or my favorite is sparknotes.com
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The Odyssey and the Iliad are usually attributed to Homer, but scholars are still trying to determine whether or not he actually wrote these epic poems.\n\nOther literary works have been falsely attributed to Homer such as the Homeric Hymns and the Margites and The Battle of Frogs and Mice.
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Wow! I loved the Odyssey, I read it in school like a few months ago, anyways. I do like your idea. Odyesseus whole journey was in a hip and getting shipwrecked and sailing home. The whole book almost revovles around him in the ship. \nYou could also make the pieces of paper look really old and turn htem into scroll. That is it was originally recorded. You could also add some sort of greek musice in teh background. Homer sung the Odyssey, so it would be fitting.\nHope that helps.
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Try:\nhttp://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/othello/index.html
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http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Pericles
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I show it to my Classical Civilisation class and it does follow the basic story. Most of the bits are in order and they all follow the basic plot. The best bits are Circe, Calypso and the Suitors Challenge. What it wont help you with is learning about Homer's use of language and story telling as you wont be reading it in his words. He mentions lots of other myths and legends that arent in the film version.\nOverall, I thought that the film was really good. It gives you visual help with the way that the book is plotted and helps to flesh out the characters. (PS Cyclops is really funny!).
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This is an easy one. The answers are all within the first 10 pages of The Odyssey. Read it closely and ask yourself these questions:\n\n"What does this story tell me about how this society functioned?"\n\n"How did they communicate and pass down their history?"\n\n"What are some examples of things that were important to believe in during this time and in this society?"\n\nIt's a great story and you can learn much from it. I hope you get something from my answer, but you have to do your homework on your own.
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Homer the Great\nHomer joins a secret sociality (The Stone Cutters), where his greatness is revealed, but only after he destroys the secret parchment and stripped of his membership.\nLove it for the song\n\nWho controls the British crown?\nWho keeps the metric system down?\nWe do!  We do.\nWho leaves the Atlantis off the maps?\nWho keeps the Martians under wraps?\nWe do!  We do.\nWho holds back the electric car?\nWho makes Steve Guttenberg a star?\nWe do!  We do.\nWho robs cave fish of their sight?\nWho rigs every Oscar night?\nWe do!  We do.
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the Iliad by Homer-thats aslo what the movie "Troy" is based on.
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well, if this helps, he wrote two poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad.  The Iliad is about the Greeks winning the Trojan war, and the Odyssey is about a hero Odysseus.  If you need more information, try wikipedia and search for Homer, Iliad or Odyssey.
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It is about the Trojan war, and it is called 'Iliad' because it means 'the story of Troy'. It was written by Homer, a Greek, and takes place in about 1255BC. Queen Helen of Sparta, married to King Menelaus, is the most beautiful women in the world. She is (there is controversy about this part) stolen from Sparta by Paris, a prince of Troy. Some think that she went willingly, some don't. But the Iliad doesn't cover that part. It leaps right into the war, because of course Menelaus wants her back! He asks his brother, King Agamemnon of Mycenae, to help him. The war last 10 years, and the Greeks win, thanks to Odysseus, a Greek soldier. The sequel is The Odyssey, also by Homer, and it is the story of Odysseus, who sails for 20 years, trying to get home, and his adventures. His wife, Penelope, refuses to believe he is dead.\nA good 'kid story' of the Iliad is Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney (not the complete story) and a good kid story of the Odyssey is Waiting for Odysseus by Clemence McLaren.
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Here's a resource. Go check it out. For more, just type "T.S. Eliot 'the Wasteland', mythology" into your search engine and look it up, the old-fashioned way!\n\nDon't forget Five-paragraph construction, especially on a 12-page paper!
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The Iliad\nhttp://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/iliad/\n\nThe Odyssey\nhttp://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/
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Homer was a male. But he was not a god. He was a poet. Read Greek history and you'll find out all about him.
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1. Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns\ndriven time and again off course, once he had plundered\nthe hallowed heights of Troy.\nMany cities of men he saw and learned their minds,\nmany pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,\nfighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.\nBut he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove—\nthe recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,\nthe blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun\nand the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.\nLaunch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus,\nstart from where you will—sing for our time too.\n\n\nmeaning:With these words the Odyssey begins. The poet asks for inspiration from the Muse and imagines her singing through him. An ancient epic poem states at the outset, in capsule form, the subject of the work to follow, and this epic is no exception. The Odyssey announces its subject matter in a different fashion from the Iliad. Whereas Homer’s first epic treats Achilles’ rage, this one focuses on a “man of twists and turns.” It chronicles not battles, the stuff of Achilles’ brief life, but a long journey through “[m]any cities” and “many pains,” the kind of test worthy of a resourceful hero like Odysseus. The opening lines foreshadow how the epic will end—with all of Odysseus’s men dead except Odysseus himself—and provide a reason for these deaths: the recklessness and blindness of his crew , who do not realize that by slaughtering the Sun’s cattle they seal their own dooms. The opening leaves unmentioned many other temptations the Achaeans will face and says nothing of the situation in Ithaca, which consumes nearly half the epic. It treats the subject matter of the epic in an abbreviated form but captures the themes those subjects will explore. As Knox notes in the introduction to the Fagles translation, in the Odyssey, in contrast to the Iliad, the Muse is asked to choose where to begin. Giving the Muse this freedom prepares us for the more complex narrative structure of the Odyssey, which relies on flashbacks as it moves through the many settings of the hero’s ten-year journey.\n\n\n2.Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,\nour mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.\nSo long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees,\nhe thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.\nBut then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times,\nbear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart.\nOur lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth,\nturn as the days turn . . .\n\nmeaning-Odysseus utters these words to the suitor Amphinomus shortly after defeating the “Beggar-King” Irus in Book 18 (18.150–157). Odysseus is himself in disguise as beggar, and his words here help maintain that cover. According to the story he has told, he once was a great warrior, plundering faraway lands, until one day he was captured. On one level, his words here reinforce those lies. The fatalism and helplessness he expresses—that a man only prospers while “the gods grant him power”—were frequently expressed sentiments of the Ancient Greek outlook, but they seem especially natural coming from a onetime king who has descended to the status of a beggar. Who better to comment on life’s reversals than someone who has experienced them firsthand?\nThe words have additional meaning, however, for both Amphinomus and Odysseus. For Amphinomus, they foreshadow death. He is plundering the land of others, living a careless life, much as the beggar once did, but he too is a feeble man, and he is destined for a fall. The words are a prophecy to Amphinomus, and a warning; he does not miss their meaning, as he walks away “fraught with grave forebodings” (18.176). For Odysseus, on the other hand, the words do not foretell the future but recount the past and, perhaps, explain the lesson it has taught him. At the hour of his greatest triumph, the beginn
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Similarities between "O Brother Where Art Thou" and "The Odyssey":\n* The names of George Clooney and Holly Hunter's characters (Ulysses & Penelope)\n* one-eyed Big Dan as the Cyclops (blinded with a burning pole)\n* the three girls by the river as the Sirens\n* Ulysses' wife marrying someone else when he comes home\n* the old-man disguise\n* the changing of one of Ulysses' companions into an animal\n* the Baptists as the Lotus-eaters\n* the Ku Klux Klan has a rank of Grand (or Exalted) Cyclops\n* they catch a ride on a hand-pumped railcar that is being operated by a blind prophet, who tells them that they will not find the treasure they seek. The prophet character in the Odyssey was Teiresias, whom Odysseus consulted in the underworld when he needed information on how to get home again\n* the movie theater scene as the trip through the Underworld.\n* Odysseus nearly drowned, but clings to a piece of wood.\n* Odysseus and Everett both reveal themselves by performing an act no one else could: Odysseus strings a special bow and fires it through seven rings; Everett sings "Man of Constant Sorrow" as only the leader of the Soggy Bottom Boys can.\n* "Pappy's" given name, Menelaus, is the same as the king who declared war on Troy in the first place.\n* the Latin equivalent of the Greek name Odysseus is Ulysses.\n* "Sing in me O Muse... ", the line at the beginning of the film, is the first line of the Odyssey.\n* the killing of the cattle of Helios by the "fools" in the Odyssey is mirrored by Baby Face Nelson shooting the cows.\n* every time Ulysses falls asleep something bad happens.\n* the song which plays throughout the movie is called "Man of Constant Sorrow", Odysseus means "man who is in constant pain and sorrow".\n* a man of constant sorrow is also a description of Odysseus.\n* Pappy's opposition for Governor's has the first name Homer.\n* when Ulysses first meets Big Dan in the restaurant there is a statue of Homer in the background.\n* There is a "Blind Bard" who pays the boys to "sing into his can". Homer was often (and probably erroneously) thought to be a blind bard who told his stories verbally to his students.
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There are many homework help sites out there, just search for them. The one I prefer is:\n\nsparknotes.com\n\nGood luck!\n~Alice