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What are some epic features?
Six Elements Of The Epic:
- Plot centers around a Hero of Unbelievable Stature.
- Involves deeds of superhuman strength and valor.
- Vast Setting.
- Involves supernatural and-or otherworldly forces.
- Sustained elevation of style.
- Poet remains objective and omniscient.
What is the meter of the Odyssey?
The Odyssey is composed in dactylic hexameter, a strict poetic structure in which each line of the poem has six ‘feet,’ or dactyls, each made up of one long and two short syllables. Homer also repeats poetic phrases and entire lines of poetry.
What kind of poem is The Odyssey?
epic poem
The Odyssey is an epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home after the Trojan War.
What are the 4 characteristics of epic?
Characteristics
- The hero is outstanding.
- The setting is large.
- The action is made of deeds of great valor or requiring superhuman courage.
- Supernatural forces—gods, angels, demons—insert themselves in the action.
- It is written in a very special style (verse as opposed to prose).
- The poet tries to remain objective.
What is a hexameter poem?
hexameter, a line of verse containing six feet, usually dactyls (′ ˘ ˘). Dactylic hexameter is the oldest known form of Greek poetry and is the preeminent metre of narrative and didactic poetry in Greek and Latin, in which its position is comparable to that of iambic pentameter in English versification.
Who are the Sirens in the Greek epic Rieu?
Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) : “Before long they [the Argonauts] sighted the beautiful island of Anthemoessa, where the clear-voiced Seirenes (Sirens), Akheloios’ (Achelous’) daughters, used to bewitch with their seductive melodies whatever sailors anchored there.
What did the siren do to Odysseus?
Siren, in Greek mythology, a creature half bird and half woman who lures sailors to destruction by the sweetness of her song. In Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus escapes the danger of the Sirens’ song by stopping the ears of his crew with wax and having himself tied to the mast.
Where did the legend of the siren come from?
The Sirens seem to have evolved from an ancient tale of the perils of early exploration combined with an Asian image of a bird-woman. Anthropologists explain the Asian image as a soul-bird—i.e., a winged ghost that stole the living to share its fate. In that respect the Sirens had affinities with the Harpies.