In this cycle class, on April 28th, we read and spoke much more, and quite extensively, on Homer’s Odyssey. We spoke about Odysseus’ iinitial sailing from Troy, we discussed inspiration and how it originates. We came to a consensus that inspiration generally comes from our personal experiences and what goes on in the world around us. We spoke of the nine muses, which were essentially the different basis of inspiration given a humanoid form. Anthropomorphic inspiration, if you will. We also read Homer’s Invocation, which was basically an introduction and some background information before entering the world and time of his epic.
Next, we continued by speaking on why we have phrases and terms like “There’s no place like home”, and “Homesick.” We said that it was because home is where your family and things that are close to your heart and recognizable are. We then quickly moved on to speaking about indirect and direct characterization. Indirect being essentially implied by a character's actions, words and looks, and direct being just flat-out (or directly[duh]) telling the reader a character's traits or personality. We then ran out of time, due to having spent a great deal of time discussing the aforementioned, and we were supposed to read “The Lotus Eaters” on our own.
In general, I wasn’t very fond of these lessons. I am personally a huge fan of Greek mythology and epic poems, but this lesson was boring, especially when compared to the amazing and fantastical things that occur within the mythology. I was very relieved by the prospect of no real homework, but only because the subject for the questions wasn’t as interesting as it could’ve been.
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