Literary Devices In The Odyssey

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The Phoenicians, brought the alphabet to Ancient Greece from trading in 750 B.C
Writing was used “to record public decisions and records, and then finally as more and more citizens became literate, or able to read, Greek literature was developed.”
Epic Literature These were epic poems which described the actions of the heroes of ancient Greece.
They are long poems, that do not rhyme. Some of the poems are on the actions of the warriors in Greece.
The Odyssey
An epic poem written by the poet, Homer.
The Odyssey tells adventures of the hero Odysseus. It was written in 8th century B.C.
Many of the stories in the Odyssey were passed down for hundreds of years orally before Homer wrote them down.
“it was Odysseus who came up with the idea for the Trojan horse that …show more content…

Theater
The Greek places were in outdoor theaters
In the earlier times of Ancient Greece, they had the theaters next to hills and people would stand or sit, and in the later times, the theaters were more popular, which means more elaborate structures.
1500 people could go at a time!
Orchestra and a chorus both performed. “In the fifth century B.C.E. the audience would have been seated on boards or cushions but a hundred years later the audience would have had seats made of marble.”
A skene was a building behind the stage and was a way for actors to make entrances and exits.
The actors were always men, and the men even played a woman part!
The different types of plays that they did were comedies and tragedies.
In comedies,the performers would wear crazy costumes such as bees with giant stingers or kitchen utensils and would perform a number of song and dance routines.
Literature
Literature was poetry, prose, dramatic art, philosophy, history, biography, and criticism.
Homer's works were probably the first to use the alphabet.
Homer also wrote the Iliad.
The Iliad deals with the Trojan war
Greek literature was linked with

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