- homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey in the eighth century BCE, centuries after the events it describes happened
- they were the only ones to survive the burning of the library of Alexandria
- metis: skill, cunning
- Odysseus announces his real name while sailing away from the Cyclops island, and the Cyclops calls down curses on him which gets all of his men killed
- greek meaning of heroism: extraordinary attribute or ability
- Odysseus executes all the housemaids for sleeping with the suitors and he's not even married to them
- "and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms around him pressed as though forever
- the Iliad is a poem of war, the Odyssey is a poem of peacetime
- Kleos: glory, renown achieved on the battlefield that guarantees immortality because of your deeds are so amazing
- weren't werent for diving intervention the humans in the Odyssey would have continued that cycle of violence
Thursday, March 14, 2019
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