Week 2

Tuesday

• Recite our new poem
• Origins 
• Greek Mythology
• How did mythology arise? 
• Who are the chief Greek gods and goddesses...and how do they relate to Roman gods and goddess?
• Gods and Goddesses
• Overview of the Odyssey
• What is an epic?
• Who was Homer?
• What happens in The Odyssey?
• The Last Forty Days of a Ten Year Journey
• Our Edition and Introduction

 HW: Read and Annotate the Introduction


Thursday

• Fix Grammar
• Note about grades
• Recite
• Terms:
• Epic:A long, grand, narrative (story-telling) poem about the brave, exemplary deeds of ancient heroes.  A "primary" epic the oldest type, based upon oral tradition; a "literary" epic is written down from the start.  Examples of the first type include Homer's, Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Anglo Saxon epic, Beowulf; examples of the second type include Virgil's Aeneid, Spenser's 
  
  Faerie Queene, and Milton's Paradise Lost.  
• Epithet: a picturesque tag or nickname associated with a certain character.  Epithets can serve as a mnemonic device to remember and distinguish different characters.  Homer also used epithets to fill out the syllables in a line of poetic meter.  Most of the important people in the Iliad have a special epithet that serves as an extra name.  Athena is the only one described as 'grey-eyed.'  Homer often refers to the Greeks 'as the 'well-greaved' or 'brazen-clad Achaeans.' The title, 'lord of men,' is most often given to the leader of the Greek forces, Agamemnon.  Achilles receives epithets based on the swiftness of his feet.  Odysseus is 'much-suffering' and 'crafty' or 'wily.'  Perhaps the most famous epithet in Homer is the one he used for the passage of time, ‘rosy-fingered Dawn' (Odyssey, 2.1; cf. Iliad, 8.1; 11.1).
• Epic simile
• Read together 

 HW: None


Friday

• Recite
• The Thesis Teaching Begins (this will take a while)
• Let's just fill in the first box defining the thesis. 
• Read Together

HW: Due Tuesday of Week 3:

• Read and Annotate the rest of Book I of The Odyssey (pp. 29–38).  You do not need to understand everything you read.  Give it your best shot; mark statements you find interesting; mark question spots.  We will review in class.  As we gain momentum, we will increase our pace.