填空题

Homer Homer: one of the greatest (1) _______ poets. (1) _______ famous for two epic poems: related with (2) _______ War (2) _______ 1. Illiad: a) describes the heroes who fought at Troy; b) consists of 15,000 lines in 24 chapters, each designated by a (3) _______ (3) _______ letter of Greek alphabet; c) Greek or Trojan heroes: represent their personalities and (4) _______; (4) _______ 1) wise advisor—nester 2) brave warriors—Ajax 3) (5) _______ trickster—Odysseus (5) _______ 4) coward—Greek king, Trojan prince Paris d) effects: 1) Ancient Greek students learned how to act properly & how to (6) _______(6) _______ on acceptable social level. 2) Alexander the Great had the epic with him when campaigning against the Persians. 2. (7) _______: (7) _______ a) 12,000 lines and 24 chapters, one for each of the small letters of the Greek alphabet b) a Greek named Odysseus, the fantastic adventures he endured in his (8) _______-year attempt to reach home (8) _______ 3. What is epic a) focus on a national hero b) historical, (9) _______, or mythological, longer in content (9) _______ c) use dactylic hexameter: each line 12 and 17 syllables in six groups artful combination of syllables 4. When, where and what nature of Homer being a poet’ When: 2,700 years ago Where: in Lonia What nature of being a poet: might include about himself--a traveling (10) _______—in poems (10) _______