Background for The Odyssey

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Homer's works: The Odyssey & The Iliad

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900 - 700 B.C.

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The Iliad

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The Trojan War

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The Odyssey

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Odysseus's 10 year journey home

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Trojan War Origin

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Paris took Queen Helen of Sparta to Troy.

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Trojan War Winner

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The Greeks

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Odysseus' return home after the war

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10 years

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Odysseus' total time away

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20 years

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Telemachus's age when Odysseus leaves for war

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Newborn baby

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in medias res

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Latin for "it begins in the middle of things"

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Invocation

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A prayer to a god or gods