Blogger #27 Nikita Yarin Period 5 Dec 15, 2020 Cycle B

 Aim: How does Homer's invocation establish tone for the beginning of the Odyssey?Do Now: CLASS DISCUSSION

How do you become inspired?  Where does it originate? 

For the do now, I said how I become inspired from anything and everything. All I need to do is think and I already have the idea of what I want to do. It probably originates back from elementary school when I went to the library and got new books. I got new ideas from the books and then I started getting ideas/inspiration from everywhere.

The Nine Muses: 

• Muses serve as inspiration for poets and other artists

• In Greek mythology, there were nine goddesses of arts, literature and science that served as muses

• One of nine Muses inspired different forms of prose, poetry, drama, rhetoric, or general writing. 

• Homer’s invocation pays  homage (special honor and respect) to these goddesses and to Ancient Greek culture in general  

•  expresses the purpose of the narrative

• Incorporates traditions familiar to his specific audience.

Here we learned about who the Muses are in Greek mythology and what purpose they had.

What exactly is an invocation? 

Quickly: Use your device to look up the term “invoke”

When we searched up the term Invoke we found that it's a way of contacting the gods above.

• Homer’s invocation pays  homage (special honor and respect) to the goddesses and to Ancient Greek culture in general.  

•  expresses the purpose of the narrative

• Incorporates traditions familiar to his specific audience.  

• Open Homer’s Invocation (lines 1-17)

 We read the text in class and although the story was confusing at first, I read it a bit more and understood it.

1. What is your opinion of Odysseus so far after hearing Homer's invocation to the muses and learning about the Trojan War?

2. He seems very foolish and reckless as he got his crew killed.

2. How does Homer maintain the audience’s interest in the story, knowing that the audience is aware of the outcome from the very beginning?

3. By not telling us what exactly happened to the crew and instead just says they were about to meet their doom.

3. What does the invocation of the Muse in the opening lines clarify about Odysseus’ culpability (responsibility for a fault or wrong; blame) during his voyage home?

It shows that he accepts that he was reckless and got his crew and understands what he did to meet their doom.

Anticipation Guide: 

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Summary/Reflection: Today I learned that in the Greek mythology, Muses were the gods?  of poems and I never heard of them before. In the story of The Odyssey itself, a writer called Homer calls on/invokes a muse to help him write a story. From what we could read in the story that Homer read, we can see that  Odysseus got his crew killed because of how reckless he was. In conclusion, this is the reflection for this lesson.