Homer- Iliad and Odyssey: General Knowledge USA Quiz.
By knowledgeterminal - January 12, 2019
Section I: Map: Lakes of USA
Section II: Map: World seas of South Asia
Section III: Event in USA history
Around 1972
The Democratic-Republican Party also called Jefferson's Republican Party was an American political party was formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Section IV: Event in world history
1300 – 1600
The Renaissance (“rebirth”), lively period of European cultural, artistic, scientific and political fields in the thirteenth century, in which Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli and the Medici family were in the forefront.
The Renaissance (“rebirth”), lively period of European cultural, artistic, scientific and political fields in the thirteenth century, in which Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli and the Medici family were in the forefront.
Section V: Homer- Iliad and Odyssey
Homer Facts
11. writer of the epic poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey
2.
Homer lived around the early 9th or late 8th
century BCE
3.
in Ionia a city in what is now considered Turkey
4.
he's often depicted as being blind Homer
5.
belonged to an oral poetry tradition based on
the writing style of the poems these stories were passed down through
memorization and were sung by a poet for an audience that's right that means
all of the Iliad was passed on between different communities in spoken
storytelling formats traditionally these stories were likely the length of what
could be performed from beginning to end in the course of an evening
6.
Homer seems to have stitched a number of stories
together into one complex epic story such a poem could only have been performed
over the course of many days
7. Iliad was written using initial form of Greek alphabet and
contained elements of the writing and this new technique
of writing played a part in the development and preservation of such a long and
complex work
8.
Homer was an oral poet who read out the
Iliad to a literate assistant or composed it in writing himself continues to be
debated by scholars and historians to this day
Iliad Facts
1.
is an ancient Greek epic poem
2.
Period: 10 year long siege of the city of Troy by a n alliance of Greek states as a result of a quarrel (Trojan War) between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
Odyssey Facts
1. sequel to the Iliad2. Odyssey is a true epic in every sense filled with literary devices like similes metaphors and mythology to tell a story broken into 24 books key
3. themes in this book include hubris pride or arrogance worst-case-scenario stupidity that really drives the action temptation that develops the characters hospitality homecoming it's the journey deception faked where the will of the gods meets the ability of the characters justice and vengeance
Section VI: quiz
Q: What does
scientific name contains information about?
A: Genus &
species
Q: In which
country is the tallest mountain in the
world, Mount Everest?
A: Nepal
