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The Odyssey - Coggle Diagram
The Odyssey
Characters
Telemachus - Odysseus Son
Penelope - Wife
Odysseus
King of Ithca
Preservers due to vengeance
Brave
Gods
Athena
Hermes
Poseidon
'Antagonist'
Poem information
1200 line poem
Written in dactylic hexameter
Dramatic and expressive
24 books
Epic genre
Told in a way to help the rhapsodes memorize it
Historical Context
Written between 800-700 BC
Written down mid-sixth century BCE
Could have been many stories stitched together over many years
Various orders of the 'chapters' before cemented in written form
Translated
Themes
Xenia
Hospitality towards strangers
Greeks thought any 'strangers' could be the gods in disguise
Never incur the wrath of the gods
Hubris of people
Seen in Odysseus's character
Vengeance
Suitors invading Odysseus's home while he's absent
Story
Tells the story of Odysseus’s journey home after the Trojan War
Years of Travel
What it inspires
'In medias res'
Various books + movies
Built off of individual stories from the Odyssey
'A Space Odyssey'
The Penelopiad
Circe
Poet
Homer
One person or 'role'?
Told by rhapsodes
Blind poet
Plot
Stuck on an island
Trying to get home but can't
Made Poseidon angry so he won't let him leave