Tuesday's Class 2/25/14

      Today in class we talked a little bit more about the culture of the ancient Greeks.  We especially got on the topic of the author of The Trojan War and The Odyssey.  The author was an old blind poet who wrote two stories in poem form which added up to about 12,110 lines in total!  It's crazy how this book was passed down by oral tradition too.  The Odyssey especially interests me because it just seems like a huge adventure story.  The Odyssey takes place by a man who is done fighting The Trojan War and upsets the god Poseiden and he trys to get Odysian killed many times throughout the story and make sure he never returns home.