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Approximately, when were Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey composed?

• 900 BC - 700 BC

• 1,000 BC - 900 BC

• 900 BC - 800 BC

• 700 BC - 500 BC

Are the Iliad and the Odyssey epic or narrative poems?

• These are epic poems.

• These are narrative poems.

What do the Iliad and the Odyssey describe?

• The poems describe the Greek kings who banded together under the leadership of Agamemnon, the brother of Menelaus and the king of Mycenae. In a thousand ships, they sailed across the Aegean Sea and mounted the siege of Troy.

• The poems describe legendary events that probably can be traced to real historical struggles for control of the waterways leading from the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.

• The poems describe how the Greeks had attacked Troy to avenge the insult suffered by Menelaus, king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, when his wife Helen ran off with Paris, a young prince of Troy.

• The poems describe how in Homer’s day, heroes were thought of as a special class of aristocrats. Their station in life and their general attitudes placed them somewhere between the gods and ordinary human beings.

Approximately, when were the real battles that are described in the Iliad?

• These real battles would have taken place as early as 1400 BC.

• These real battles would have taken place as early as 1300 BC.

• These real battles would have taken place as early as 1200 BC.

• These real battles would have taken place as early as 1500 BC.

Epics are _____________ that tell of the adventures of ________ who embody the _________ of their particular civilization.

• Epics are folk-tale poems that tell of the adventures of bizarre heroes who embody the organisms of their particular civilization.

• Epics are short expository poems that tell of the adventures of slaves who embody the virtues of their particular civilization.

• Epics are long narrative (EPICS) poems that tell of the adventures of heroes who embody the values of their particular civilization

• None of the above.

How long did the Greeks teach these stories in schools?

• For decades.

• For millennia.

• For years.

• For centuries.

What did/do the Greeks use these stories to teach?

• To teach Greek virtues.

• To teach Greek values.

• To teach Greek aristocrats.

• To teach Greek poetry.

Later cultures created their own epics that conveyed their own _________.

• virtue systems

• value systems

• poetry systems

• narrative systems