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How the Iliad was so strong, The Iliad was so strong and conditioned because they were so confident and had so much drive to win. The main thing that they did was intense training together no stoping and Courage/bravness all together to try an win the battle. Another reasons is because many people believed that they were born from the gods so they have enhanced powers or skills.

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At the end of The Odyssey, Odysseus returns home to Ithaca after a lot years away. He reveals himself and defeats the suitors who were trying to take over his house and marry his wife Penelope. This shows the resolution because he solves the conflict and takes back his place as king. Odysseus is back with his family Penelope and his son Telemachus. In the end peace is restored and his long journey finally comes to a close.

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Homer was the poet that wrote the Iliad and the odyssey. not much else is known about him other than he lived in the 8-9 century. he was born in modern day turkey. references to his poems begin in the 7th century. many believe he lived not much later than.

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Countries that fought in the war are. The early Greeks were in the war and the other country was. The people of Troy.

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During the Climax of "the Odyssey", Odysseus fights the soldiers and the suitors in his territory. He soon takes back his home. This point is important because it shows the conflict and how it is resolved.

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Odysseus's story involves his crucial role in ending the Trojan War by devising the Trojan Horse, a hollow wooden horse that concealed Greek soldiers who then opened the gates for the attacking army, leading to Troy's fall.

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The early life of Homer is largely unknown, and it is uncertain whether he was a single person. Legend places his birth around the 8th century BCE in either Smyrna or on the island of Chios. Some traditions say his birth name was Melesigenes, and that he may have been a wandering blind bard who performed poetry orally.

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Shayla Meyer-The Role of The Gods in lliad

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Shayla Meyer-The Role of The Gods in lliad

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There are 2 sides either the gods support Greek or Trojan. This was driven by personal grudges, some gods wanted their own glory other than moral justice. These battles are mostly manipulated and only really cared about protecting favorite morals, while deciding human destiny. Zeus favored Trojan and supported to reduce the worlds population but for the most part he was neutral although he often manipulated the battles.

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The biggest theme was Anger. Mostly in Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War. Achilles was angry because King Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek forces, dishonored him by seizing his war prize, aka the maiden Briseis. This was a big impact on his pride, and this caused him to withdraw from the Trigan Warm. Later, his rage shifted to intense, murderous, and a type of vengeance against Hector for killing his best friend Patroculus

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Homer wrote this poem to entertain audiences and preserve Greek culture. It also educated people about bravery, loyalty, intelligence, and the importance of hospitality. The poem emerged from centuries of oral storytelling.

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Homer wrote this poem to enter tain audie ces and preserve Greek culture. He was born in modern-day Turkey, and his poem begins in the 7th century. It also educated people about bravery, the importance of hospitality, and intelligence. The poem emerged from centuries of oral storytelling.

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Odysseus had a wife penelope and a son named Telemachus. He got his wife dy shoting thowr 12 axs with a dow and arow. Athena was often described as Odysseus's mentor throughout the story. In The Odyssey, he was one of the few who stayed faithful to his wife. He started with 600 men, and over the course of the journey, he lost all of them. One of the biggest challenges he had to overcome is pisidens rath decouea Odysseus hert his son.

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The war was fought between the Greeks and the city of Troy. The Greeks won the war against the city of Troy after 10 years.

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For ten years straight it was swift and brutal conflict. Destruction of the city was normal and also the mass death or enslavement. The war between Mycenaean Greek kingdoms and the city of Troy in Asia Minor

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The exposition of "The Odyssey" starts out 10 years after the Trojan War. Telemachus is trying to find out information about his father. He visits King Nestor while searching for Odyssey and confirms that he is alive but stranded.

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Odysseus had to overcome many challenges to make it back home. he over came loutus eaters, he navigated the underworld and many more. odysseus has overcame very deadly obsticles.

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Homer the well known author but there is a debate on whether he was one guy a group of bards or a storytelling tradition.

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Odysseus's son, Telemachus, leaves his home to find his father. Odysseus escapes the island and tells the story of his bad experiences there. He talks about when he was fighting a big monster and escaping a witch. After awhile he returns to his home in Ithaca. He works with his son to plan an attack on a guy who is trying to take over his place.

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Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, fights in the Trojan war for 10 years and wanders home taking another 10 years. Upon his return home only his dog and a nurse recognize him and he works with his son to get rid of his wife's suitors and reestablish himself in his kingdom.

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The abduction of Helen Paris, a prince of Troy, took Helen from her husband, Menelaus of Sparta it had occurred when he visited Sparta. The act violated sacred Greek code of xenia meaning hospitality. Paris had been a guest in Menelaus’s home at the time when Paris departed for Troy he took Helen and a large amount of Spartan treasure. her abduction was one of the main triggers of the Trojan War.

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Homer was the poet that wrote the Iliad and the odyssey. not much else is known about him other than he lived in the 8-9 century. he was born in modern day turkey. references to his poems begin in the 7th century. many believe he lived not much later than.

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After ten years, the Trojan War finally ended when the Greeks, unable to breach Troy's walls, used a deceptive strategy devised by Odysseus. They built a massive hollow wooden horse that concealed a large group of warriors inside it, and then pretended to sail away. Despite the warnings, the Trojans brought the wooden horse into their city, where the Greeks emerged during the night to open the gates and destroy Troy.

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The Trojan War began when Paris, a Trojan prince, abducted Helen, the wife of Spartan King Menelaus he called upon Helen’s former suitors bounded by an oath to protect her to join a massive Greek expedition to retrieve her, led by his brother, Agamemnon this launched a 10-year siege on Troy

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Characters like Hector fight to gain remembrance and honor. Many heroes care about reputation and respect and that is why they fight. They want a good reputation of themselves and want to fight for their people not themselves.

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Odysseus was a main character and hero in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. Odysseus was the king of Ithaca with his wife Penelope, they had a son together. Odysseus was wise and wily and led to winning the Trojan War after 10 years. When heading back home it took him 10 years of travel due to many different blockades he was forced to persevere through. 

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Primary strengths are his cunning intelligence , unyielding resilience, and exceptional strategic planning. Unlike other Greek heroes who relied solely on brute force, Odysseus is defined by his ability to outwit physically superior opponents, as seen in his legendary ruse of the Trojan Horse and his escape from the Cyclops Polyphemus. He was also known for his poise and patience in the face of battle.

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Odysseus

Odysseus is a legendary Greek hero and king of Ithaca who descended from the line of Hermes. He was a general in the Trojan War, being key in the city's fall. He was also famous for his journey home from the war, which lasted 10 years and nearly got him killed several times by monsters, giants, and even the gods.

Dante Alighieri claimed to have met Odysseus in during his journey in Hell, being condemned in the 8th circle of Hell.

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The war did not break him, it made him more himself. At Troy he found at last a scope to equal his abilities. Always a new scheme, a new plot, a new disaster to avert.

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Odysseus has traditionally been viewed as Achilles' antithesis: while Achilles' anger is all-consuming and of a self-destructive nature, Odysseus is frequently viewed as a man of the mean, a voice of reason, renowned for his self-restraint and diplomatic skills. He is also in some respects antithetical to Ajax: while the latter has only brawn to recommend him, Odysseus is not only ingenious (as evidenced by his idea for the Trojan Horse), but an eloquent speaker, a skill perhaps best demonstrated in the embassy to Achilles. The two are not only foils in the abstract but often opposed in practice since they have many duels and run-ins.

When Helen is abducted, Menelaus calls upon the other suitors to honor their oaths and help him to retrieve her, an attempt that leads to the Trojan War. Odysseus tries to avoid it by feigning lunacy, as an oracle had prophesied a long-delayed return home for him if he went. He hooks a donkey and an ox to his plow (as they have different stride lengths, hindering the efficiency of the plow) and starts sowing his fields with salt. Palamedes, at the behest of Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, seeks to disprove Odysseus' madness and places Telemachus, Odysseus' infant son, in front of the plow. Odysseus veers the plow away from his son, thus exposing his stratagem. Odysseus holds a grudge against Palamedes during the war for dragging him away from his home.

Odysseus and other envoys of Agamemnon travel to Scyros to recruit Achilles because of a prophecy that Troy could not be taken without him. Thetis, Achilles' mother, disguises the youth as a woman to hide him from the recruiters because an oracle had predicted that Achilles would either live a long uneventful life or achieve everlasting glory while dying young. Odysseus cleverly discovers which among the women before him is Achilles when the youth is the only one of them to show interest in examining the weapons hidden among an array of adornment gifts for the daughters of their host. Odysseus arranges further for the sounding of a battle horn, which prompts Achilles to clutch a weapon and show his trained disposition. With his disguise foiled, he is exposed and joins Agamemnon's call to arms among the Hellenes.

Since a prophecy suggested that the Trojan War would not be won without Achilles, Odysseus and several other Achaean leaders went to Skyros to find him. Odysseus discovered Achilles by offering gifts, adornments and musical instruments as well as weapons, to the king's daughters, and then having his companions imitate the noises of an enemy's attack on the island (most notably, making a blast of a trumpet heard), which prompted Achilles to reveal himself by picking a weapon to fight back, and together they departed for the Trojan War.

When Achilles is slain in battle by Paris, it is Odysseus and Ajax the Great who retrieve the fallen warrior's body and armor in the thick of heavy fighting. During the funeral games for Achilles, Odysseus competes once again with Ajax. Thetis says that the arms of Achilles will go to the bravest of the Greeks, but only these two warriors dare lay claim to that title. The two Argives became embroiled in a heavy dispute about one another's merits to receive the reward.

The Greeks dither out of fear in deciding a winner, because they did not want to insult one and have him abandon the war effort. Nestor suggests that they allow the captive Trojans decide the winner. Odysseus is the winner, enraged and humiliated, Ajax is driven mad by Athena. When he returns to his senses, in shame at how he has slaughtered livestock in his madness, Ajax kills himself by the sword that Hector had given him after their duel.

Together with Diomedes, Odysseus fetches Achilles' son, Neoptolemus, to come to the aid of the Achaeans, because an oracle had stated that Troy could not be taken without him. Upon the success of the mission, Odysseus gives Achilles' armour to him.

It is learned that the war can not be won without the poisonous arrows of Heracles, which are owned by the abandoned Philoctetes. Odysseus and Diomedes leave to retrieve them. Upon their arrival, Philoctetes is seen still to be enraged at the Danaans, especially at Odysseus, for abandoning him. Although his first instinct is to shoot Odysseus, his anger is eventually diffused by Odysseus' persuasive powers and the influence of the gods. Odysseus returns to the Argive camp with Philoctetes and his arrows.

Perhaps Odysseus' most famous contribution to the Greek war effort is devising the strategem of the Trojan Horse, which allows the Greek army to sneak into Troy under cover of darkness. It is built by Epeius and filled with Greek warriors, led by Odysseus. Odysseus and Diomedes steal the Palladium that lay within Troy's walls, for the Greeks were told they could not sack the city without it.

On the way home from Troy, after a raid on Ismarus in the land of the Cicones, he and his twelve ships are driven off course by storms. They visit the lethargic Lotus-Eaters and are captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus while visiting his island. After Polyphemus eats several of his men, Polyphemus and Odysseus have a discussion and Odysseus tells Polyphemus his name is "Nobody". Odysseus takes a barrel of wine, and the Cyclops drinks it, falling asleep. Odysseus and his men take a wooden stake, ignite it with the remaining wine, and blind him. While they escape, Polyphemus cries in pain, and the other Cyclopes ask him what is wrong. Polyphemus cries, "Nobody has blinded me!" and the other Cyclopes think he has gone mad. Odysseus and his crew escape, but Odysseus rashly reveals his real name, and Polyphemus prays to Poseidon, his father, to take revenge. They stay with Aeolus, the master of the winds, who gives Odysseus a leather bag containing all the winds, except the west wind, a gift that should have ensured a safe return home. However, the sailors foolishly open the bag while Odysseus sleeps, thinking that it contains gold. All of the winds fly out, and the resulting storm drives the ships back the way they had come, just as Ithaca comes into sight.

After pleading in vain with Aeolus to help them again, they re-embark and encounter the cannibalistic Laestrygonians. Odysseus' ship is the only one to escape. He sails on and visits the witch-goddess Circe. She turns half of his men into swine after feeding them cheese and wine. Hermes warns Odysseus about Circe and gives him a drug called moly, which resists Circe's magic. Circe, being attracted to Odysseus' resistance, falls in love with him and releases his men. Odysseus and his crew remain with her on the island for one year, while they feast and drink. Finally, Odysseus' men convince him to leave for Ithaca.

When the disguised Odysseus returns after 20 years, he is recognized only by his faithful dog, Argos. Penelope announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus' rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe shafts may have her hand. Odysseus' identity is discovered by the housekeeper, Eurycleia, as she is washing his feet and discovers an old scar Odysseus received during a boar hunt. Odysseus swears her to secrecy, threatening to kill her if she tells anyone.

When the contest of the bow begins, none of the suitors is able to string the bow. After all the suitors have given up, the disguised Odysseus asks to participate. Though the suitors refuse at first, Penelope intervenes and allows the "stranger" to participate. Odysseus easily strings his bow and wins the contest. Having done so, he proceeds to slaughter the suitors with help from Telemachus and two of Odysseus' servants, Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd. He then ordered his son to kill all the men who aided the suitors, and to gather up all the slave girls who had ever lain with one of them and make them clean the blood-soaked floor, and when they were finished, he was to kill them all. Telemachus, who couldn't believe his father's cruelty, did not kill them with his sword but hang them instead.

Odysseus has now revealed himself in all his glory (with a little makeover by Athena); yet Penelope cannot believe that her husband has really returned-she fears that it is perhaps some god in disguise, as in the story of Alcmene (mother of Heracles)-and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their wedding-chamber. Odysseus protests that this cannot be done since he made the bed himself and knows that one of its legs is a living olive tree. Penelope finally accepts that he truly is her husband, a moment that highlights their "like-mindedness".

The next day Odysseus and Telemachus visit the country farm of his old father Laërtes. The citizens of Ithaca follow Odysseus on the road, planning to avenge the killing of the Suitors, their sons. After he had killed some of them and ordered Telemachus to kill the rest, the goddess Athena intervenes and persuades both sides to make peace.

Shortly after he killed the suitors' fathers, the fathers of his soldiers who went with him to Troy and the Odyssey came, asking for their sons. When they learned their sons were dead, they began demanding their sons' share of the treasure won fighting at Troy. Even after Odysseus tried to reason with them time and time again, they kept coming and eventually, his patient went thin. He beaten them before yelling out how their sons were dead, how their sons were greedy and stupid and disobeyed the gods. The soldiers' parents kept themselves away from the palace after that, but Odysseus was plagued by paranoia that they were plotting against them.

When Telemachus confronted him of his paranoid behaviors, he openly mocked his son, saying that there were boys younger than him at the Trojan War, barely thirteen and fourteen yet still openly fought as warriors and men, that even Achilles himself was seventeen when he entered the war. He said he was a disgrace, a coward, that he should have fought off the suitors single-handedly, that he should have been able to shoot his great bow, and how he wouldn't survive a single day in Troy.

When Telemachus tried to defend himself, Odysseus' smile dropped. He believed his son was a traitor who wanted him to die so that he could take the throne. This eventually led a huge fight between them that ended in Telemachus' pseudo-exile. He was shut from his councils, he was barred from the hall. During a drunken state, Odysseus even yelled at Penelope for "she had nursed a viper".

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The truth is, I think he would have preferred me as a traitor. At least then I would have been a son he could understand.

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The only one in the palace Telemachus could speak to was Eurycleia, who had been both him and his father's nurse. Despite this, when she died not long after, Odysseus did not stay to watch her pyre burn, saying that he was "tired of living among ashes". He went out on a skiff and came back a month later with gold belts and cups and a new breastplate, with dried blood on his clothes. Telemachus noted that this was the happiest his father had ever been since his return to Ithaca, but it did not last, by the next morning he was railing about the smoky hall and the clumsiness of the servants.

Penelope noted how Odysseus would often talk to the air, which gathered around him, glowing the brightest silver on his skin. This was, in reality, Athena, who came everytime he was calm again. She whispered in his ears, darting down from the clouds to fill him up with dreams of all the adventures he was missing.

Following the past events, Odysseus would go on a raid every month and rarely returned to his queen and son.

Eventually, on one of his piracy raids, he traveled to Thesprotia where he wed the Thesprotian queen Callidice, who bore him a son, Polypoetes. He fought for the Thesprotians in a way against the neighbouring Brygoi, with his patron Athena on his side. However, Callidice was killed in the war and Polypoetes was made king.

Sometimes in Thesprotia, he visited an oracle who foretold him that he would be killed by his son. He also lost the favor of Athena, as the goddess did not like to see her favorite could never be allowed to grow dull and domestic, he must live in action's eye, bright and polished, aways striving and seeking, always delighting her with new twist of cleverness, some brilliance he summoned out of the air.

When he returned to Ithaca, he saw a young man walking by the beach, wearing the finest of clothes and waving a funny-looking spear. Thinking he was a pirate who came to ravage his home, he drew out his sword with the intention to kill, unbeknownst to him that the young man was Telegonus, one of the three sons he sired with the witch-goddess Circe during his Odyssey.

When he asked who let him come to Ithaca, Telegonus answered it was Telemachus which angered him even more, as he believed he had summoned pirates and mercenaries to overthrow him. He commanded Telegonus to put down his spear, which he did not as his mother had commanded he never let the spear out of his hand, as the spear was crafted from Hephaestus and covered in the poison of the Elder God Trygon - A god of stingrays and the depths who was more ancient than any Olympian or Titan - so that Athena, who had been out for Telegonus' blood since birth, could not harm him.

Not caring for his son warning, he grabbed the spear and placed upon him an absolute death sentence, for Trygon's poison could kill any mortal and place any immortal under excruciating pain. However, before he died, Odysseus recognized Telegonus to be his son and realized the patricide prophecy had been fulfilled because of his foolishness. His funeral was held in Ithaca, with only few people arrived for many had lost their respect for their king because of his ways.

Telegonus then took Penelope and Telemachus back to Aeaea at their request, as there were nothing bound them to Ithaca anymore. There, the two were immortalized by Circe, with Telemachus becoming Circe's new husband and Penelope becoming Telegonus' new wife.

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Odysseus is a legendary Greek hero and king of Ithaca who descended from the line of Hermes. He was a general in the Trojan War, being key in the city's fall. He was also famous for his journey home from the war, which lasted 10 years and nearly got him killed several times by monsters, giants, and even the gods.

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An epic poem is a lengthy narrative that tells a story in a formal and elevated style of lyrical feet and meter. The reason epic poetry is composed in verse is because it was original performed orally and the repetition of sounds made it easier to memorize. Epic poems usually take place so long ago that humans do not have a memory of the extraordinary events being described. These stories were told to entertain and teach the audience a lesson.

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The protagonist of an epic poem is the epic hero. This character demonstrates bravery and courage when they use their superhuman strength to overcome a difficult struggle in which they must save members of society from harm or evil. As the listener or reader observes the character's intelligence and wit they grow to admire the achievements and positive traits revered by society.

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The protagonist must travel far and wide in order to achieve their goals and save society. There are oftentimes conflicts, hurdles, or struggles that cause the journey to be prolonged and circuitous. Obstacles may even alter the protagonist's path forcing them to focus on their goals rather than succumbing to distractions.

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While the mortal hero is strong and brave, the protagonist cannot achieve their destined goals without the favor and assistance of mythical gods and goddesses. When obstacles seem too challenging for the main character to overcome, the help of mythological creatures will intervene to ensure they are able to save society.