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    The Odyssey Epithet Chart for Major Characters/Gods and Goddesses As you read the Odyssey list all the epithets you find for the following characters. Cite Book and line number Character Epithet – Book and line # ____________________________________________________________ ____________ Odysseus: -“the man of twists and turns” (I.1) -“Great Odysseus” (I.228) -“King Odysseus” (I.456) -“godlike man” (II.261) -“Odysseus of Ithaca” (II.277) -“Worldly Odysseus” (V.237) -“Long-enduring

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    use cheats and deceptions to weave through adversity? The Odyssey‚ an epic poem written by Homer around 700 B.C.‚ tells of a man named Odysseus conquering trials and tribulations with both disguises and deceptions. This man was definitely considered intelligent by those he encountered. Odysseus’ heroic trait is his mētis‚ or "cunning intelligence‚" and his name means ‘trouble’ in Greek (he certainly got into a lot of trouble). In The Odyssey‚ Homer’s Greek audience generally admired Odysseus’ clever

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    Professor Reagan C. Smith Humanities Greek/ Roman 3 June 2011 Homer and The Impact He Has Left Behind Homer can be said one of the greatest poets perhaps even literarily genius of all time. If you can get past the part that Homer may or not even be a person at all. There is no concrete knowledge of even his existence but scholars would say that it is safe to assume if he did existed it would be around 8-9 century BCE. Most likely he would be from the Island of Chios due to the writing style

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    Research Paper Outline: I. Homer: A. Born blind‚ but still somehow an author of two of the most famous epic poems known to man: His two epic poems‚ the Odyssey and the Iliad‚ are one of the most widely spread ideas and most well-known epic poems throughout the entire world. B. He has an amazing sense of use in imagery‚ getting his point to the author‚ and conveying his thoughts on the subjects he writes about. He uses really good Figurative language that truly sticks

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    The Iliad Homer Major Themes The interaction between fate and free will: A complicated theme‚ the interaction between fate and free will is present in every book of the Iliad. At times it seems that men have no real freedom. The gods intercede repeatedly‚ altering events as they please. But Homer was no determinist‚ and there is a place in the Iliad for human agency. At key points‚ Homer makes it clear that mortals make important choices‚ and a few times mortals nearly overturn the dictates

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    takes a step back to examine who and where these accounts exactly came from. Homer and Hesiod were both born around eight hundred B.C and were the first to write about these Greek gods and goddesses. It’s easy to say that Hesiod and Homer may have been the single most influential poets in Greek history‚ as both told stories of great importance to the type of lifestyle and societal issues Greece was built upon. Homer and Hesiod held a lot in common yet shared many differences as well. Both oral

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    A TEXTBOOK OF TRANSLATION Peter Newmark W *MRtt SHANGHAI FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION PRESS 9787810801232 A Textbook of Translation Peter Newmark SHANGHAI FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION PRESS A Textbook of Translation Peter Newmark Prentice Hall NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY TOKYO First published 1988 by Prentice HaH International vUIO Ltd. 66 Wood Lane End‚ Heme! Hempstead. Hertfordshire‚ HP2 4RG A division of Simon &i Schuster International Group (0 1988 Prentke Hall

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    Biography on homer By * Is the author of the Iliad * Is the author of the Odyssey‚ and * is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet * When he lived is controversial. * Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus’ own time‚ * which would place him at around 850 BC * Other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the War‚ around in early 12th century BC. * For modern scholars "the date of Homer" refers

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    Domestication and foreignization are strategies in translation‚ regarding the degree to which translators make a text conform to the target culture. Domestication is the strategy of making text closely conform to the culture of the language being translated to‚ which may involve the loss of information from the source text. Foreignization is the strategy of retaining information from the source text‚ and involves deliberately breaking the conventions of the target language to preserve its meaning

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    Extra material for chapter 4 Van Leuven-Zwart’s comparative–descriptive model of translation shifts1 The most detailed attempt to produce and apply a model of shift analysis has been carried out by Kitty van Leuven-Zwart of Amsterdam. Van Leuven-Zwart’s model takes as its point of departure some of the categories proposed by Vinay and Darbelnet and Levý and applies them to the descriptive analysis of a translation‚ attempting both to systematize comparison and to build in a discourse framework

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