Textbook Project

Today in Honor's Western Civilization we learned about the project we will be starting where, as a class, we make a textbook about the information about Ancient Greece we've learned about so far. My group got stuck with Homer and Literature. So, we will most likely be talking about the stories Homer told like the Oddysse and Illiad and the great 'homeric question'. We've decided we're going to work off of the notes we've taken like these:
  • Blind storyteller
  • composed stories of the Trojan War c. 750-700 BCE.
  • popular for telling stories of his courageous journeys. He told stories or "epics" of Zeus and his relationships.
  • Told of the Odyssey- 12,110 line story.
  • Homer may have been a mythical creation himself
  • A blind, wandering minstrel; a heroic figure said to have told of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  • May be the culmination of many generations of storytelling or...
  • Homer actually existed and he was just that amazing

The Odyssey- Odysseus attempts to return home after the Trojan war, only to be sabotaged along his journey home by Poseidon, god of the sea. Took a total of ten years to get home. 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter.

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