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Odyssey Oral Reports

Special thanks to Kristen Grandfield, Yale - New Haven Teacher Institute



Oral Reports

Preliminary Research

  1. Write a two to three page report on the topic. Be ready to present a summary to the class. Your written report should be well-organized and well-researched.

  2. Do not copy directly from a text. Use your own words in the best possible manner. List sources.

  3. Your oral report shouLd be succinct and well-organized.

  4. Use visual aids.

  5. Do not read directly from your written paper but feel free to use notes.

Topics:

1. the Vaphio cups

2. Heinrich Schliemann (2 students)

a. site of Troy; artifacts

b. artifacts from Mycenae

3. Excavations at Pylos restoration of the Great Hall of the palace of Nestor

4. the Warrior Vase

5. a boar’s tooth helmet (cf. drawing for lots and the epithet ‘white-toothed boar’)

6. a description of an Homeric sailing ship

7. The Theogony of Hesiod

8. Ulysses; Alfred, Lord Tennyson

9. Conjectural Journeysa. Ernle Bradfordb. Victor Berard

10. the Muses

11. Agamemnon by Aeschylus

12. the Trojan War

a. the judgment of Paris

b. Agamemnon and Menelaus

c. Achilles and Patroclusd. Hector, Aeneas, King Priame. the funeral games, Book XXIII, The Iliad

13. the Fates

14. Attic Vases Argos, Eleusis, and Aegina


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