explain how epics reveal a civilization's customs, manners&values by using 3 references from THE ODYSSEY?
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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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The connection is humans.\n\nHumans find large fossilized bones and reassemble them into the likeness of museum dinosaurs (sometimes making mistakes, like putting the wrong head on the "brontosaur").  These creatures were dead long before man's first story.\n\nHumans also made written lists and drawings of creatures told but unseen but most: Elves, Dwarfs, Unicorns, Griffins, Centaurs, Dragons.  These creatures became alive with the telling of man's first story.
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Its an anagram. ODYSSEY is what I came up with. Look at the top of all the pages, they are scattered about... pg 55, 89, 131, etc... Ill let you find the rest on your own. :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
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it was a outline written by the ancient Greek scolar Isocrates.For behaviors for students of Philospy to become good orators and men of good repute and  morals.
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I don't know what they meant but Greece has an awesome history and culture, so take it as a compliment, whatever their intent.
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1. Crime and Punishment.\n2. Tom Sawyer\n3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.\n4. War and Peace\n5. A Brief History of Time.\n6. Critique of Pure Reason.\n7. The Inferno\n8. The Iliad\n9. The Odyssey\n10. As I Lay Dying
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you have to remember that Plato also spoke of other mythical beasts/ islands in the Iliad, most of which have been discredited.\n\nI am of the view that there are many sunken cities etc in the world but nothing of the proportion/ advancement as he mentions in the Iliad.\n\nit there was surely it would have been uncovered by now with all our modern advancements/ technologies\n\nalso i trust the running is going well.. grin..
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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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An epic is a long narrative poem written in an elevated style. It is usually based on the exploits of legendary or divine characters, and deals with events significant to an entire society. \n\nThe traditional or folk epics are based upon legend and history preserved through oral traditions. Such epics include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the medieval epic Beowulf. Literary epics are learned imitations of the traditional form, such as Virgil's Aeneid and Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). \n\nSome recurring features of the structure and action of classical epics have come to be viewed as epic conventions. Structurally, the epic begins with a statement of the poem's "argument" (subject matter), proceeds to an invocation to a muse or divine source of inspiration, and then jumps into the action in medias res ("in the middle of things"). Earlier events are later recounted in narrative flashbacks. \n\nOther epic conventions include the arming of the hero, extraordinary deeds of battle, a great journey (including a descent to the underworld), and the active intervention of gods or supernatural beings. \n\nBy extension, the term "epic" is also applied to novels, dramas, and films which have epic grandeur in the scale of their action or the importance of their subject to human society at large.
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The 'Shield of Achilles' depicts the entirety of the Homeric world, but more importantly, the City at War and the City at Peace.\n\nThese representations also relate to Achilles' two differing fates described by his immortal mother: Leave the Trojan siege and lead a long, but uneventful life in the City at Peace or stay at Troy (City at War), acquiring glory, honor, and immortality(warrior ethos), but dying shortly thereafter on the battlefield.\n\nPatroklos' death was the catalyst in which Achilles' divine-like rage overwhelmed all considerations of the mortal world including the heroic ethos. Achilles' desire for revenge could only lead him to the City at War.
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A golden odyssey is what you would call someone going on a trek to attain an unattainable goal similar to that of Jason and the Argonauts of Greek mythology.  \n\nJason was in search of the golden Fleece which was considered impossible to find.  He subsequently found it.  But the journey was filled with peril.\n\nhere is a link to a site that may give a little more light into Jason and the Argonauts\n\nwww.pantheon.org/articles/g/golden_fleece.html
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Go here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey#Derivative_works\n\nGood luck!\n\nIrim
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civilization, alexander.
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It has alot of cool mythological stories in it.  The battle of Troy, when Paris and Helen fell in love then the Trojan Horse,  Achilles getting shot in the the back of the leg and dying, the Sirens, the Cyclops, lots of other monsters and creatures as well.  There may be a cliff notes version I'm not sure.  But it is an awesome book.
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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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yes when homer became homer the philosopher