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Greek/Odyssey project Instructions for Odyssey Project Once your team is complet

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Greek/Odyssey project

Instructions for Odyssey Project

Once your team is complete, you will begin studying how your topic fits into the framework of Homer’s Odyssey. Your report will be richly illustrated with maps, pictures concerning your topic, and art work from the 3,000 years since the epic poem was written. It will also include readings from the poem, and the following:

1. Define your archetypes, and what they mean to us.

2. Roles of your archetypes – give us a psychological profile.

3. What part or parts of the adventure does your archetype act in?

4. What is the relationship of your topic to other archetypes in the story?

5. What is the meaning of the adventure? What is this part of the story intended to show the people of Greece? Describe the cultural context of the time.

6. How does the storyteller use imagery and symbol to convey meaning? Readings from the poem.

Explanation / Answer

1). Archetype is a primitive mental image that reoccurs in literature or can be present in the memories unconsciously. An archetype can be a symbol, a character or a theme. Examples of archetypes characters include, the hero, the father and the warrior. Secretory is a less common