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| Who was the author of the Odyssey? |
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| The Bronze Age was from... |
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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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| The main characters in Homer's poem were... |
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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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| 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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| Who is mainly involved in the Iliad? |
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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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| The best friend of Achilles |
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| Patroklos is killed by... |
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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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| In the Iliad, whose side was Zeus on? |
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| What is the main theme of the war in the Iliad? |
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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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| 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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