Monday, March 14

Today we started our reading of "The Odyssey", by Homer. We'll be reading from "The Odyssey" all this week. We'll finish it next week.

"The Odyssey" is an epic poem about the great hero Odysseus and his journey home after the Trojan War. It’s an extremely long poem, over 400 pages long, so we’ll only be reading parts of it in class, out of our textbook. Please pay attention, as we will have a quiz on Friday and a writing assignment next week, both based upon this reading.

First we reviewed the background to "The Odyssey" (the Judgment of Paris and the Trojan War), which we covered last Wednesday. Following this, we read the following part:

“I Am Odysseus”, “The Lotus Eaters”, “The Cyclops” (pages 599-607, up to line 247)