Homer

What kinds of poems did Homer write?

• pretty love poems

• epics

• limericks

• humorous rhyming couplets

The Iliad and Odyssey, like most epics of the time, were written to be:

• read quietly, page by page

• sung, or spoken aloud to music

• read aloud by a group of people taking turns

• buried in a time capsule and not seen for a thousand years

The events of the Iliad begin with

• a great storm hurled against the Greeks by the god Poseidon.

• a talking horse named Encephalitus telling a Greek king that he would soon die.

• a Trojan prince, Paris, kidnapping the wife of a Greek king.

• a volcano erupting on the Greek island of Ithaca.

The events of the Odyssey mostly have to do with

• a clownfish who travels the ocean in search of his lost son.

• two groups of spirits competing in a race in the Underworld.

• a Trojan prince sailing across a massive, stormy sea.

• a Greek general trying to get home after the Trojan War.

Which of these might be considered a modern epic?

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

• Red Wings (the movie about the Tuskeegee Airmen)

• Superman vs Batman

• all of these