Greek Myth Comix STUDENT Revision notes for Odyssey Books 9, 10, 19, 21 OCR GCSE

INTRODUCTORY AND USEFUL NOTES FOR STUDYING THE ODYSSEY SET BOOKS!

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FOR STUDENTS:

Designed for GCSE Classical Civilisations Homeric World Odyssey study - a booklet of notes that will streamline your Odyssey revision and give you context for the set books in the wider poem. You can print this PDF once!

The Booklet contains:

- Structure of the plot

- Structure of the Odyssey, chronologically

- Overall details of the Odyssey in sections

- Breakdown of the text sections and set text

- Need to know: Descriptive techniques and how they work

- Need to know: Effective storytelling techniques and how and why they work

- Need to know: Themes of the text

- Setting the scene: Book 1’s opening lines: invoking the muse, exposition

- Comic helpers: comics that explain…

       o Xenia— hospitality

       o Nostos—the need to return home

       o Fate and Fortune—the reasons why things happen

       o Kudos and Aidos—reputation, both good and bad, and how you get it

       o Epithet—what is one and how does it work?

       o Formula (example: arming formula)

       o Simile—when something is ‘like’ or ‘as’ something else

- A full breakdown of the text, chapter by chapter, with emphasis on the set chapters

- Vocabulary for the set books (and a few others) and techniques

Good luck with your exams!

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