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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about what scholars have speculated about the life of Homer, known as the author of both the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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TES Global

Blendspace: The Odyssey by Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that includes links to videos, websites on mythology and mythological creatures, maps, assessments, flashcards, and activities to use while reading Homer's The Odyssey.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Monsters of the Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that includes links to images of fourteen different monsters found in Homer's The Odyssey.
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TES Global

Blendspace: The Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module with twenty-eight links to texts, web sites, images, slide shows, and videos, to use while reading Homer's The Odyssey.
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TES Global

Blendspace: The Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
A sixteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and a map to use while reading The Odyssey.
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Read Works

Read Works: Archaeologists Hit a Homer Run

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a sarcophagus found by archaeologists in Asia. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Odyssey: Teacher Zone: Middle East: Turkey Stay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This teaching unit is based upon a "teacher trek" to the area in 2000 and focuses on essential questions on wealth and poverty. Activities are offered to help students explore the religion and culture of this country. Activities are...
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Homer's The Iliad, The Odyssey And The Lesser Homerica has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Odysseus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed encyclopedia article for Odysseus, known for his guile and resourcefulness, the hero of Homer's Odyssey, and a major character in the Iliad. He is most famous for the ten years it took him to return home from the Trojan War.
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University of Oxford (UK)

Beazley Archive: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated dictionary entry over famous Greek poet Homer. Highlights his two epic poems, the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey', which recounts life and times of 7th and 8th century BC. Traces Homer's lineage and how his works impacted the Greek...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Ulysses

For Students 9th - 10th
"Ulysses", a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce, is a key text of literary modernism. It follows the structure of Homer's Odyssey. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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Encyclopedia Mythica

Encyclopedia Mythica: Odysseus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This encyclopedia entry for the main character in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus, includes hypertext links to additional encyclopedia entries on related topics.
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Other

Greek Mythology: Greek Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
This website focuses on Greek Mythology including the Greek gods and goddess, myths, heroes, pictures and drawings of the gods and goddesses, mortals, monsters, creatures, places, and Ancient Greek Literature books like The Iliad and The...
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles Lamb retells the tale of Ulysses. This is not a translation of Homer's Ulysses, but a modern (19th century) retelling of the story.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bust of Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Of the Homeric poems the Iliad and the Odyssey were the most distinguished and have alone come down to us. The subject of the Iliad was the exploits of Achilles and of the other Grecian heroes before Ilium or Troy, that of the Odyssey...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bust of Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns. Today the hymns are considered to be later works but many still regard Homer as the author or...
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Curated OER

Plaster Cast of a Marble Portrait Herm of Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated dictionary entry over famous Greek poet Homer. Highlights his two epic poems, the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey', which recounts life and times of 7th and 8th century BC. Traces Homer's lineage and how his works impacted the Greek...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Homer. Of all the writings that describe this Heroic Age, the most important are the two great narrative poems,- the Illiad and the Odyssey, -attributed to Homer.-Colby, 1899
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
(c. 850 B.C.) Ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
An ancient greek epic poet, believed to have written The Illiad and The Odyssey.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Odysseus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Odysseus including his ancestry, his participation in the Trojan War, his ten-year journey at sea, and pictures and myths about him
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University of Oxford (UK)

Beazley Archive: Odysseus

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated dictionary entry for Greek hero Odysseus, the heroin of Homer's Odyssey. Recounts the adventures Odysseus encounters on his travel home. Identifies key people and places involved in his journey.
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Vancouver Island University

The Legend of the Trojan War

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief account of several different older versions of the Trojan War story, arranged in chronological sequence.
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Able Media

Classics Technology Center: The Story of Troy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an account of the legendary war between Greece and Troy. Begins with the legend of Helen and her possibly divine birth and finishes with the fates of the warriors involved. Also includes some nice comparative mythology...

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