Epithets and Epic Similes

The Odyssey by HomerPowerPoint by Erin Salona

Epithets brief descriptive phrases characterize a person or thing sometimes set off by commas used to help the rhapsode & listener better

remember details

Epithets Examples of Epithets:

Odysseus, master mariner Grey-eyed Athena Muse, daughter of Zeus the ocean, the winedark sea Rosy-fingered dawn

Epithets TASK: Create an epithet for

your own name. Consider what you like to do, who your parents are, and what you are best known for.

Epic Similes also known as the Homeric Simile uses like or as comparison between two things an elaborate version of a regular

simile

Epic Similes Example: “And

Odysseuslet the bright molten tears run down his cheeks, weeping the way a wife mourns for her lord on the lost field where he has gone down fighting” - Book 8

What is being compared?