The+Odyssey

=The Odyssey - full movie:=  []

=Oh Brother, Where Art Thou= 

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Epic Poem

 * 1) ==1. It is based in a specific culture. ==
 * 2) ==2. It involves a physically impressive hero of national or historic importance. ==
 * 3) ==3. It involves a journey taken in search of something. ==
 * 4) ==4. It contains a vast setting that encompasses much of the known world – sometimes the land of the dead. ==
 * 5) ==5. It involves supernatural forces. ==
 * 6) ==6. It ends with the glorification of the hero. ==

Epic Hero

 * 1) **Possesses superhuman strength, craftiness, and confidence**
 * 2) **Is helped and harmed by interfering gods**
 * 3) **Embodies ideals and values that a culture considers admirable**
 * 4) **Emerges victrorious from perilous situations**

**Epic Plot**

 * Involves a long journey, full of complications, such as**
 * 1) **strange creatures**
 * 2) **divine intervention**
 * 3) **large scale events**
 * 4) **treacherous weather**

**Epic Setting**

 * 1) ==**includes fantastic or exotic lands**==
 * 2) ==**involves more than one nation**==

**Archetypes**

 * All epics include archetypes - characters, situations, and images that are recognizable in many times and cultures:**
 * 1) **sea monster**
 * 2) **buried treasure**
 * 3) **epic hero**
 * 4) **wicked temp;tress**
 * 5) **suitor's contest**
 * 6) **loyal servant**

**Epic Themes**

 * Reflect such universal concerns as**
 * 1) **courage**
 * 2) **a homecoming**
 * 3) **loyalty**
 * 4) **the fate of a nation**
 * 5) **beauty**
 * 6) **life and death**

Simile - a comparison between two unlike things, using the word //like// or //as//. Homer often develops a simile at great length, so that it goes on for several lines. This is known as an **epic** simile. In this passage from Book 20, an angry Odysseus is compared to a sausage being roasted over a fire: His rage held hard in leash, submitted to his mind, while __he himself rocked, rolling from side to side,__ __as a cook turns a sausage, big with blood__ __and fat, at a scorching blaze, without a pause,__ __to broil it quick:__ so he rolled left and right,...

Epithet -

 * a brief descriptive phrase used to characterize a particular person or thing. When a poet needed to fill out a line, he'd add an epithet with the right meter and number of syllables. Odysseus is known by various epithets, including "son of Laertes" and "raider of cities."

Allusion -

 * a reference to a famous person, place, or event. To help his audience picture what he described, a poet might have made an allusion to something they already knew. For instance, when Odysseus' son first sees the palace of Menelaus, he says, "This is the way the court of Zeus must be." Every Greek would have understood this allusion to the ruler of gods.