Setting time is Bronze Age (around the twelfth or thirteenth century B.C.); The Iliad begins nine years after the start of the Trojan War. Setting place of the poem is Troy (a city in what is now northwestern Turkey) and its immediate environs. ... Setting time is in the aftermath of the Trojan War; about 1000 B.C. Setting place is the Mediterranean, including the north coast of Asia Minor, Carthage, and Italy. ... In numerous ways of thought and plot, they are very similar stories. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They wandered around, encountering, and foolishly entering an immense cave, awaiting the owner. ... There, they stayed for about one month, and departed, in sight of the long-awaited Ithaca. However, before they left, Odysseus was presented with a container of winds, carrying each but the needed West wind. ... Setting sail once again, the group headed back west, where they had come across the Island of the Laesrtygonians, a savage race of cannibals. ... They then departed from the island and continued on there journey, ears filled with wax. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The animals sacred to Roman Apollo were the wolf, because of his acute sight, as well as the crow and raven because they were supposed to have instinctual prediction in the animal world. ... He also typically carries a bow and arrows, as well as a lyre. ... But they greatly trembled and feared, and none, not even the richest of them, dared receive Phoebus, until queenly Leto set foot on Delos. " The two deities were born on two separate floating islands, Artemis on Ortygia and Apollo on Detos. ... In order to establish his oracle, Apollo had to defeat the serpent, Pythian, "a great fat savage...

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Why they are forced to focus on this particular subject is due to both the repetition of the words as well as the emphasis placed on them - note the exclamation points. ... Perhaps the use of "forests- as a setting is not very important by itself - unless the reader could possibly feel dread at being left alone in a forest with a burning Tyger. ...

• Word Count: 2680
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School