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Lecture 6 (Unit 4)
Homer's Iliad
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Undergraduate 1
11/02/2015

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Who was the author of the Odyssey?
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Homer
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The Bronze Age was from...
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3000-1100 BC
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The Odyssey was about...
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Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War.
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The Battle of Troy ranged from...
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1194–1184 BC
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The main characters in Homer's poem were...
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Warrior heroes
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What is the purpose of the Rhythm (meter)?
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It helps retain the information passed down by poems
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How much is known about the Iliad?
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Not a great deal
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Where and when was the setting of the Iliad?
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In Troy of the ninth year of the war
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What disability did Homer have?
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He was blind
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What is the Iliad?
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An epic poem
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Who is mainly involved in the Iliad?
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Gods and heroes
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Even though Homer was blind, he...
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Knew a great deal about life through oral transmission
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Homer was known particularly for...
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Reinventing writing in the 8th century
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Arête means...
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Excellence
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Who is Patroklos?
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The best friend of Achilles
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Patroklos is killed by...
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Hektor
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Who kills Hektor and why?
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Achilles kills Hektor because he is upset that Hektor killed his best friend, Patroklos.
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The central themes of the Iliad include...
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Suffering of the innocent, war for a noble cause, glories of warrior culture, and heroism
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The time frame the Iliad is based on is...
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A few weeks
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In the Iliad, whose side was Zeus on?
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The Greeks
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What is the main theme of the war in the Iliad?
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The anger of Achilles
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Why is Achilles angry before the war breaks out?
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Because after Achilles tells Agamemnon to give the priest his daughter back, Agamemnon then takes a slave girl from Achilles
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What does Achilles do to the body of Hektor?
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He abuses the dead body by tying the body to a horse and have the horse drag around the body around the grave of Patroklos.
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Who is Priam?
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The father of Hektor
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How were events from the Iliad passed down?
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Songs were sung at various events
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The main subjects of the Odyssey were...
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Mycenae and Troy, Agamemnon and Achilles
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What is the Odyssey?
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An epic poem
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