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The Odyssey Background - Coggle Diagram
The Odyssey Background
Ancient Greek Values
Respect Gods/esses
Xenia
Achieving Glory
The Role of Women
Faithfulness and Loyalty
Revenge
Prophecy
Proper Burial
Odysseus
Known for his Brains
Could talk his way out of anything
King of Ithaca
Wife: Penelope
Loyal (she embodies it)
Waited for Odysseus while he fought in the trojar war (10 years)
Also smart (like Odysseus)
Son: Telemachus
Never met his father due to the Trojan War
He seeks a father figure (growth from boyhood to manhod)
Athena
Most intelligent of all the Gods/esses
Good at war strategies
Helped many of the Greek heroes
Odysseus, Hercules
She speaks up for them
Has the power to invent useful crafts
Poseidon
One of the most powerful Gods
Rules over the ocean
Doesn't like Odysseus
Odysseus blinded his son
He also doesn't like Athena
Magical People
Hermes (just a messenger)
Helios
The God of Sun and Sunlight
Ancient Greeks revered him as much as they did with Zeus
One of the reasons Odysseus took so long to return home
Calypso
Keeps Odysseus on an island for 7 years
Smart and insightful
Epic
Poem
Lengthy narrative poem that contains heroic deeds
Elements
Begins "in medias res" (in the middle of things)
Has a vast setting
Features lengthy formal speeches
Has to contain divine intervention
Features a hero that embodies the values and morals of that civilization
The protagonist descends into the underworld