LHHS OCAD Lang Lit 8
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- Who were two of Greek's great writers and thinkers of poetry and philosophy?
- Homer and Plato
- Who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
- John Keats
- According to legend and popular belief, who was the father of Western Literature?
- Homer
- What were two great epics?
- The Odyssey and the Illiad
- According to the Greeks, Homer was an ___, _______,and _______ bard.
- old, blind, and wandering
- How many different cities claim him as their own?
- 7
- How were poems and works of literature passed down?
- Through oral tradition
- At what festival does a recitation of an epic last 24 hours?
- Panatheneae
- Which tyrant of Athens had the epics transcribed?
- Pisistratus
- Around 150 b.c., Alexandrian librarians divided the poem into how many books?
- 24
- Is the ten year seige of Troy and the ten year journey of oddysseus accurate?
- no, of course not
- What kind of virtues do the poems emphasize?
- heroic
- Who was chosen to pick which of the three goddesses was the most beautiful?
- Paris, the Prince a.k.a. Orlando Bloom....(bleechhhh)
- Who did he choose and why?
- Aphrodite because her bribe was the most attractive.
- What is the problem with his choice?
- The most beatiful woman on earth was already married to King Menelaus.