... called Mycenaean, named after its capital located on the Peloponnesus. This culture dominated the Greek world from about 1600 to 1100 b.c.e., and was illuminated five hundred years later in Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, clearly following the oral traditions of ancient societies. Again it was Schliemann, who started digging here in 1876 and uncovered what he called King Agamemnon's palace and ... Odysseus' son, states "my mother says I am the son of Odysseus, but I don't know. No one by himself can know his own seed." Agamemnon, the protagonist of the Iliad remarks "...brings your ship ...

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... it after her. The Greeks also built the Acropolis, with its centerpiece consisting of the Parthenon, a temple made to honor Athena. Athena character is represented differently in the Iliad and the Odyssey. In the Iliad, written by the poet Homer, Athena is portrayed as a fierce and ruthless warrior goddess, who takes pleasure in war and fighting. In the Odyssey, also written by ... ...

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... . This relation can be easily seen in the vast number of artifacts that have been recovered from the ancient Greek time period which depict scenes from The Odyssey and The Iliad. Also, the fact that these epic tales themselves survived to be translated into modern English shows how important they were to the people of Homer's time, and to us. Homer ... ...

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... your friends and hurt your enemies- it was only to be expected that their revenges, when they felt themselves unjustly treated, would be huge and deadly. The epic poems [i.e., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey] do not really question Achilles' right to bring destruction on the Greek army to avenge Agamemnon's insults, nor Odysseus' slaughter of the entire younger generation of the Ithacan ... ...

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... entertained in addition to informing the Greeks. Athenian stories also influenced the western culture. The epic poems of an old bard named Homer contributed an everlasting effect on all. The Iliad was an epic that depicted heroes and their trials at the time of the Trojan war. His poem left the listeners with a powerful ideal called arete, where you were to ... ...

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... hours and minutes in the way we use them today. V. A. 1. The epic poems of Homer tell us most of what we know about the era of 1200-800 bc. The Iliad tells how the Greeks besieged and destroyed Troy. The Odyssey tells what happened after the Trojan War to the king of Ithaca, a leader of Greece. It is likely that the ... ...

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... him as "The Poet." Homer most likely came from Ionia. He may also have been blind. In any case, he wrote the two most famous pieces of Greek literature, the Iliad and the Odyssey, making him one of the most prestigious writers ever. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos. Legend says she was an ugly prostitute who committed suicide by ... ...

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... even more power than us in America. Education/Military Service Education was highly valued in Athens. The schools taught reading, writing, grammar, poetry, music, and gymnastics. Poetry, like Homer's famous Iliad and Odyssey, was learned by heart. And this was only in elementary! Men called Sophists (which means wise), opened schools for older boys. Here the students learned, poetry, government, ethics ... ...

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