4. 1)TROY TO ISMARUS
UNDER ESTIMATING THE ENEMY
12-14 SHIPS
600 SOLDIERS
72 SOLDIERS DIE
“Hard-pressed were we by
their attack, for they were as
thick as leaves, or summer
flowers”
9.48
5. 2)HURRICANE
DRUG ABUSE
NORTH AFRICA
LOTUS EATERS
SOLDIERS TURN CAREFREE AND FORGETFUL
“Whoever ate of the
honey-sweet lotus…
wished only to remain
among the lotus eaters,
feeding on the flower,
and forgetful of his
homeward path…”
9.95
6. 3) Cyclops Polyphemus
CANNIBALISM
12 OF HIS BEST MEN ARE SELECTED
A GOAT SKIN FULL OF WINE
CYCLOPS: A SYNDROM,A FOSSIL,VOLCANO
POSEIDON`S SON
“I AM NOBODY”
“A monstrous being who
shepherded his flock, but lived apart
and alone, never socializing, and
with his heart set on lawlessness”
9.189
7. 4)ISLAND AEOLIA
GREED
KING AEOLUS
POWER OVER WINDS
PANDORA
“So we came to where
dwelt Aeolus, son of
Hippotas, dear to the
immortal gods, on a
floating island, with walls of
bronze and sheer cliffs.”
10.1
8. 5)LAESTRIGONES
ALL SHIPS DESTROYED BUT ONE
“In the water they
speared the men like
fishes and took them
home to be loathsome
meal.”
10.25
9. 6)LAND OF CIRCE
POWER OF SEDUCTION
Sorcerer sex goddess
Turns men into swines
Hermes and Moly
Stays one year
“She smote them with her
wand, and they had the
heads, and voices and
shapes of bristling swine,
but their minds remained
unchanged even as they
had been before.”
10.245
10. 7)THE UNDERWORLD
FACING DEATH
CIRCE`S HELP
GUIDANCE OF TIRESIAS
TRIP TO THE UNDERWORLD
CATTLE OF THE SON GOD
GOSPEL OF MARK!
“How did you, still alive, come
to be below in the murky
darkness? Hard is it for those
that live to behold these
realms.”
11.155
11. 8)ISLAND OF THE SIRENS
TEMPTATION
PLUCKED THEIR EARS
WITH BEE WAX
“The sirens beguiled with their cleared-toned song,
But about them is a great heap of bones from rotting corpses,
And round the bones the skin is shriveling.”
12.45
12. 9)SCYLLA ND CHARBIDS
DECISIONS, DECISIONS
DEATH TO SOME OR DEATH TO ALL
SIX MEN KILLED
HARDEST MOMENT TO ODESSEUS
“She has twelve feet, all deformed and six very long necks, with
an awful head on each one, and in each head three rows of teeth.
Thick and close, and full of black death.”
12.45
13. 10)ISLAND OF HELIOS
disobey and pay!
Helios-Zeus-storm
All are drowned but Odysseus
“Friends, in our swift ship
is food and drink; let us
therefore keep our
hands from those beasts
lest we come to harm.
These are the herds of
the dread god, Helios”
12.320
14. 11)NYMPH CALYPSO
SEDUCTION
PROMISES HIM IMMORTALITY
STAYS THERE FOR SEVEN YEARS
BULDS HIMSELF A BOAT
“Odysseus, hapless man, is far
from hos friends on a wooded,
sea-girt isle, the navel of the sea.
There dwells a goddess… and
ever with a soft and wheedling
words she beguiles him to forget
Ithaca.”
1.44
15. 12)PENELOPE`S TESTS
WIT AND POWER
BOW CONTEST
DISGUISE AS A BEGEGR
KILLS THE SUITORS
PENELOPE`S TEST
“THE SUN BLOTTED OUT OF THE SKY”
APRIL 16TH, 1178 B.C
“There I found Odysseus standing among the corpses.
Those he had slain stretched all around him on the hard floor
heaped one upon the other; a cheering sight which would
have warmed your heart.”
23.45
16. ELEMENTS OF
EPIC
Characters are beings of
national importance and
historical or legendary
significance.
The setting is grand in
scope, covering nations,
the world, or even the
universe.
Action consists of deeds
of great valor and
courage.
Style is sustained in tone
and language.
Supernatural forces
interest themselves in
human action and often
intervene directly.
An invocation to the
Muse for inspiration in
the telling of a story
Epics tend to start in
medias res. "In the
middle of the action."
Epic similes are
frequent.
Dialogues tend to be
extended, formal
speeches.
Epic catalogues list
warriors, armies, etc.
17. THE POWER OF
INTELLECT OVER
STRENGTH:
THINK BEFORE ACT
PIETY:
MAN
VS
GODS
EVERY MAN`S HERO:
MAN OF PAIN
POWER OF PERSEVERANCE
DECISIONS
AND INDECISIONS
TEMPATIONS:
LUST AND
GREED
MAN
VS
NATURE
ALWAYS BE
PREPARED
FATE
VS
FREEWILL
JUSTICE
THEMES
18. ITHECA :
AN OASIS OF PEACE
WHAT LIES BEYOND
FOODS, DRINKS
AND VISIONS
HOME
CURIOUS GREEKS
SHIPS AND
SOLDIERS
SYMBOLS
19. THE
AENEID
THE FLIGHT FROM
TROY THE
MEDITERRANEAN
TOUR
DIDO
SICILY
LAND FALL
THE UNDERWORLD
LATIUM
WAR(PART1)
EVANDER
WAR(PART2)
NEGOTIATIONS
WAR(PART 3)
FURTHER
READING
20. SEE YOU ALL ON
DECEMBER 25TH
WITH
THE ANALYSIS OF
SOPHOCLES`
OEDIPUS REX
AND
ANTIGONE
