The Odyssey- Part I- Wanderings of Odysseus

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The Odyssey composition date

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around 750 BC

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Epic before The Odyssey

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the Iliad

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Odysseus left Troy with

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12 ships and 700 men

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Epic poetry reciters in Odysseus' time

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Bards and rhapsodes

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Qualities of an Epic Hero

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Doesn't emerge victorious; dies tragically

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Archetypes in epics

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Easily recognizable characters across cultures

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Example of an epithet

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Odysseus, raider of cities and son of Laertes

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Xenia

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sacred rule of hospitality

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In medias res

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Starts in the middle of a story, explaining prior actions.

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Odysseus calls upon in Book 1

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Muse