Homer's epic, The Odyssey, begins with the invocation, in which the poet asks the Muse for help in telling the story. The story starts on mount Olympus, with an entreaty of Athena to Zeus, her father, asking him to aid Odysseus in escaping Calypso's island and gaining his long overdue homecoming.
Because the muse is the symbol of the poet's inspiration. He invokes her at the start of the poem, hoping she will support him in relating this long tale in a poetically perfect manner.
It begins after the Trojan war. :))
It is not written what they ate, only what they did (sing sailors to their death), and where they were.
Book II
It's where an author asks for divine inspiration and guidance in speaking from the Muse, the Greek god of artistic inspiration. An example is when Odysseus begins the odyssey with the line "sing in me o muse" or when Dante asks for help from the muse in the inferno
The Invocation the the muse is an opening to a story (Like the Odyssey or the Iliad) in which the teller of the story prays to one of the 9 muses (daughters of Zeus) to help them tell/sing the story.
No, the muse is a symbol of the inspiration of the poet.
Sing in me, Muse
muse is a god that most writers prayed to at the beginning of plays or books
Homer's epic, The Odyssey, begins with the invocation, in which the poet asks the Muse for help in telling the story. The story starts on mount Olympus, with an entreaty of Athena to Zeus, her father, asking him to aid Odysseus in escaping Calypso's island and gaining his long overdue homecoming.
Because the muse is the symbol of the poet's inspiration. He invokes her at the start of the poem, hoping she will support him in relating this long tale in a poetically perfect manner.
The first line of The Odyssey is: "Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy."
It begins after the Trojan war. :))
The Trojan War ended at the beginning of The Odyssey. It was the Trojans against the Greeks.
In the opening, Homer only invokes the "goddess" or "muse", but not by name. Probably because any contemporary of Homer would have taken for granted that the goddess or Muse in question would have been Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry.
the invocation in which the poet asks for inspiration from the Muse to tell the story of odysseus