HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Which event is the basis of both the Iliad and the Odyssey?Select one:
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the rise of the Spartans
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the Trojan War
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the first Olympic Games
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the Peloponnesian War
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Each poem narrates only a part of the war. The Iliad covers a short period in the last year of the siege of Troy, while the Odyssey concerns Odysseus’s return to his home island of Ithaca following the sack of Troy and contains several flashbacks to particular episodes in the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Iliad describes a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, while its continuation the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Greek leaders.
Detailed explanation-3: -Homer’s Iliad presents the Trojan War as an epic clash of gods, warriors, and kings. This seminal work of Western literature remains an essential reading even in the modern era.
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