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*I know we are finishing reading up the English translation (books 23-24) this week, so if you haven’t finished it yet, I guess my post is a spoiler and you might want to skip over it!*
I finished reading the end of the english translation of the Odyssey prior to the last mid-term and wanted to comment […]
In reading book 18 about the confrontation between Iros and (disguised) Odysseus, I found that this passage was ironically amusing:
‘May Zeus, stranger, and all the other immortals give you what you want most of all and what is dear to your spirit, for having stopped the wandering of this greedy creature in our neighborhood. Soon […]
Since BBCnews is my homepage, I saw that they did a follow up article in reference to the question of Paliki being ancient Ithica, only connected to another island by fill from volcanoes.
In case any of you are interested, here is the link: Drill Hole Begins Homeric Quest.
Book 13, lines 287-290: ‘The goddess, gray-eyed Athene, smiled on him, and stroked him with her hand, and took on the shape of a woman both beautiful and tall, and well versed in glorious handiworks…’
I liked this quote, since it shows that Athena truly cares for Odysseus (it is not for every mortal that a […]
I thought I would just post a few musings/questions I wanted to ask about the weekend’s readings on the blog instead of taking up class time.
Book 11, line 235 on = Is it just by chance that the first of the illustrious ladies that Odysseus presents was a lover of Poseidon? I found it rather ironic; perhaps she was first […]
From our English readings of Book I to X and our Greek translations of portions of Book X and XI, I think it is safe to say that Odysseus is the epitome of what human rationality should aspire to, at least by ancient Greek/Homeric standards. While his men cower in ignorance, he tends to them […]
When we were reading the Iliad for our previous Greek class the last semester, I had been initially surprised that Iris was often than not sent to provide messages to mortals and to other gods; I had thought that Hermes would have played a larger role in the carrying of messages.
Now that we are reading the Odyssey, […]
Here is the Wikipedia.org link to the myth I thought related to willows, but evidently they turned into an oak and a linden tree (is there some connotations with those types of trees the way willows and poplars are with death?):
Link: Baucis and Philemon
Though there is no connection to willows, I think that the myth […]
Search ‘locates’ Homer’s Ithaca
I had found this article last year (I can’t believe I was able to find it again!) and thought it was interesting. It states that an amateur archaeologist has claimed to have found Ithaca and that the explanation of the region’s current geography is due to subsequent earthquakes that have filled in the channel between […]
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