Quinn WilliamsonWeek 12: Ah! Exam 2 (Also the Epic of Ending of the Epic Odyssey)I missed most of week 12 voting past Tuesday and then in class we must’ve spent at least 40 minutes discussing what happened that Tuesday…Nov 17, 2016Nov 17, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 11 of a Greek Lit Course: This Is Going to Be DifficultIt’s surreal to watch the ideals of the ancients ring so true in 2016. And I apologize for taking up so much of this journal to discuss…Nov 10, 2016Nov 10, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 10 of a Greek Lit Course: The Adventures of Odysseus LaertiadesSo I thought in high school that I read the entire Odyssey. I did not. I only read two stories that appeared in a literature textbook. The…Nov 3, 2016Nov 3, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 9 of a Greek Lit Course: We Return to Our 5 Life StoriesFor week 9 we started discussing book 4 of the Odyssey, which I discussed pretty in depth last week when I explained the strenuous…Oct 24, 2016Oct 24, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 8 of a Greek Lit Course: The Odyssey BeginsThe Odyssey begins just like the Iliad: Homer supplicates the Muses, hoping that they will give him the ability to tell the tale of he who…Oct 19, 2016Oct 19, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 7 of a Greek Lit Course: And A Pause for the Mid-TermLast week we finished our last discussions of the Iliad and this week we took a test. I’m writing this having just finished taking our…Oct 12, 2016Oct 12, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 6: THE MENIS OF ACHILLEUS (and the end of the Iliad)This week we’ve finally reached the end of an epic! That epic of course being Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad. We have really seen it all by…Oct 6, 2016Oct 6, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 5 of a Greek Lit Course: The Women of the IliadThis week we got to hear Dr. Sandridge call Zeus a “level boss,” which made my entire week, Greek literature-wise, go very smoothly. The…Sep 28, 2016Sep 28, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 4 of a Greek Lit Course: And the Gods Have Their HourTo begin our epic fourth week, we discussed book 9, which we read for the previous Thursday. There were a ton of new terms this week that…Sep 20, 2016Sep 20, 2016
Quinn WilliamsonWeek 3: Respected Warriors of the Trojan WarUnfortunately, we only had one class day this week for Greek Literature and we were only able to discuss up to book 6 as a class. After…Sep 12, 2016Sep 12, 2016
