The Odyssey Background

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Author of The Iliad and The Odyssey

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Homer

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Does not describe an epic

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Written only in novel form

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Trojan War combatants

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Greeks

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Universal idea or symbol

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Archetype

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Reference to another text

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Allusion

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Odysseus' journey home after

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fighting in the Trojan War

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In Media Res

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In the Middle of Things

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Characteristics of people or things

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Epithets

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Larger-than-life main character in an epic

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Epic Hero

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Literary characteristics of epics

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Epic Conventions