History test Crossword
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2) It shows that while humans struggle and make choices, fate and the gods ultimately control their destinies.
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1) The story is vast, involving many gods, battles, and emotions — Homer needed divine inspiration to remember and tell it properly.
3) The Muse symbolizes divine knowledge,storytelling power, and a cosmic perspective beyond human understanding.
4) Modern epics include movies like Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, or video games like God of War.
5) An epic hero is typically brave, strong, has a sense of honor, faces danger, and is often fated to experience tragedy.
6) Achilles is the main Greek hero featured in The Iliad.
7) Gods like Apollo, Athena, and Zeus directly influence events in The Iliad.
8) Major themes include honor, pride,fate, the power of the gods, war, and mortality.
9) Stories like The Iliad were shared by bards who performed them aloud for audiences.
10) The Muse represents the power of storytelling and preserving memory through oral tradition.
11) Homer was an ancient Greek poet
famous for writing The Iliad and The Odyssey.
12) Trojan War, especially focusing on the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon.13) The Muses were Greek goddesses of the arts, storytelling, and inspiration.
14) His stories were shared through oral
tradition, passed down by word of mouth before being written.
15) Paris is a Trojan prince who started the Trojan War by abducting Helen from Sparta.
16) The tone is elevated, serious, and formal — signaling the story’s importance and divine connection.
17) The name The Iliad comes from “Ilion,” the Greek word for Troy.
18) Invoking the Muse gave ancient epics divine credibility and aligned them with sacred traditions of storytelling.
19) He is believed to have lived around
the 8th century BCE.
20) An epic is a long narrative poem
about heroic deeds and legendary events.
21) Homer invokes the Muse to ask for divine help in telling the story and to give the poem authority and significance.
22) Some scholars believe that Homer may
have been a group of poets rather than a single person
23) Epic poems often feature: An epic hero, A vast setting, Supernatural forces, Elevated language, A long, dangerous quest, Battles and displays of courage, An invocation to the Muse and beginning in medias res24) It’s considered an epic because it features a heroic figure (Achilles), begins in the middle of the action, involves gods, and uses formal, poetic language.25) In medias res means “in the middle of things.” Epics start this way to grab attention and jump straight into important action.
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