Homer's great war stories are called the _____ and the _____

The great wars of Homer's stories took place...

The Iliad was fought outside the walls of ...

The Iliad tells us the cause of the Trojan War was...

Homer's second epic is titled ____.

Long narratives poems that tell of the advertures of heroes who in some way embody the values fo tehir civilizations are called...

The Iliad is the primary model for the epic of...

The Odyssey is the model for the epic of...

The Iliad is set in the ____ and final year of the Trojan War.

The ____ contains the background for Odysseus' story.

According to the Iliad, the Trojan War started because Menelaus' wife, _____, ran off with Paris.

Who won the Trojan War?

_____ are stories that use fantasy to express ideas about life that cannot be easily expressed in realistic terms. 

 ____ or "singer of tales" were historians and entertainers, as well as myth-makers of their time. 

Menelaus' wife, Helen, ran off with ____, the young prince of Troy.

The greatest of the Greek warriors was...

Homer's homecoming story was about a somewhat unusual hero, known as much for his brain as for his brawn.

Like Odysseus, we have to _________ and __________.

Odysseus' home

During the Trojan War, Odysseus had a plan to build a ______ and hide a few Greek soldiers inside its hollow belly.

Odysseus was gone from Ithica for ____ years.

Similes in epics that compare heroic or epic events to simple and easily understandable events are known as _____ similes.

The Greek kings banded together under the leadership of ____, the brother of Menelaus.

In Homer's day, ____ were placed somewhere between the gods and ordinary human beings.

____ was Odysseus' wife.

____ was Odysseus' son.

In Homer's stories, a god can be a(n) ______, a reflection of a hero's best or worst qualities. 

Homer was believed to have been _____.

The goddess of wisdom, ____, was always on Odysseus' side.

The god, _____, worked against Odysseus.