Exercises to examine the reading of Ancient Greek Myths: Prometheus, Daedalus and Ikarus, Trojan War, Theseus, Labours of Heracles, Orpheus and Eurydice, Tantalus, Sisyphus, Adventures of Odysseus, Orestes, Oedipus and Antigone.
There is a lot of eating and drinking in the epic of Homer. In this survey it is being discussed, to which era of greek history the diet in the odyssey refers: Does it pertain to the Mycenaean Age, in which the action takes place, to the... more
There is a lot of eating and drinking in the epic of Homer. In this survey it is being discussed, to which era of greek history the diet in the odyssey refers: Does it pertain to the Mycenaean Age, in which the action takes place, to the dark ages, through which the story is transmitted, or does it show the alimentation of Homers own era, the beginning of the archaic age in Greece?
