CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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They provided heroes who were role models for Greek boys.
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They told stories about journeys and long and difficult wars.
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They served as models for European and American literature.
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They taught ancient Greeks about the importance of loyalty, courage, and honor
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Detailed explanation-1: -The stories Homer told taught the importance of courage, bravery, and loyalty. The stories showed Greeks how to be the best they could be and their heroes became role models for young Greek boys. Aesop was a slave that wrote fables. The fables used the personification of animals to teach morals and lessons to Greeks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Epic was, for Greeks throughout antiquity, the most prestigious literary form, the apex of the hierarchy of genres. Through it they articulated their conceptions of war, empire, mortality, religion, gender, the natural order, psychology and cultural identity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey focus on the exploits of a single protagonist: the godlike warrior Achilles in the Iliad and the wily, cunning Odysseus in the Odyssey. The events Homer narrates have to do especially with the Trojan War and its aftermath, around the year 1250 B.C.E.
Detailed explanation-4: -Homer is the author of the two epics preserved entire from ancient Greece: The Iliad and The Odyssey.