April 4th Today in class, we had talked about Books 11- 13. In these books, was the adventures of Odysseus. We talked about how significant each place is to build Odysseus kleos. The Underworld is basically a time machine. Odysseus got to meet great kings, queens, princess, princes and many…

March 28th Today in class we talked about the fate of the Odyssey in the next books that we are about to read. Books 9 through 12 are the books that talks about the many adventures of Odysseus and what things he had seen before arriving to Calypso’s island. The…

March 21st Today in class, we talked heavily about the concept of xenia. Xenia is when hospitality is being shown towards strangers. When you can show xenia to anyone, that means that you’ve either reached maturity or close to it. In Books 3 and 4, Nestor and Menelaus show xenia…

March 7th Today in class we went over the important aspects of Book 1. We had compared some of the Iliad to the Odyssey. Their beginnings are totally different. The Iliad starts out with the gods telling the fate or the will of the mortals, but in the Odyssey, the…

February 28th Today we had an exam review over the Iliad. I learned very valuable concepts on how to successfully pass the exam. Not only did we find ways to be successful on this exam, but on other exams as well. One valuable lesson that I learned is that the…

February 21st Today in class we talked about the three concepts that are inside of Book 21. We read different parts of the book and looked at the human, divine, and animal concepts or the book. Basically, we looked to see what actions made in the story that were either…

February 14th Today is Valentine’s Day! What’s a better way to spend this day other than talking about the Iliad? Today in class after our quiz, we had talked about the concept of human agency in our fate. Basically, how much control do we really have in our fate? The…

Feb 7th Today, we had done a little bit of self reflection about the book as a whole. We had talked about our views of the book and how we felt about the book. Even though I didn’t really have anything to say about the book I might as well…

January 31st Today we had talked a lot about type scenes and how to justify them. From my understanding, type scenes are major scenes of a story. Basically points in the story where confrontation is occuring. We also talked about the aristeia of Diomedes. This is the point in the…