Hey, I know that I haven't been on here in FOREVER, let alone post something, but I'd like to share a few ideas about the Odyssey. I recently began reading it for a humanities course that I'm taking, originally it was just to get the required credit out of the way but after the first day of class I knew that I was going to enjoy the class! Honestly it kinda reminded me of Mr. Nelson's Creative Writing class which brought me back to this blog.
Anyway, back to the Odyssey. For those of you who don't know, the Odyssey is a Greek story that follows what happened to a man named Odysseus after the Trojan War. Odysseus was actually the soldier who devised the plot of the wooden horse that won the Greeks the war. But the fatal flaw of this hero was that he professed to the gods that he, a man and mortal, had won the war and had not needed the help of the gods. As you can imagine this ticked off some of the gods, Poseidon in particular, and when you need to sail home, it's usually not a good idea to anger the god of the sea. The Odyssey is the story of his ten year return to his home land Ithaca.