HOMER

Today in western civilization class with Mr. Schick we learned a lot about the Greek man himself Homer. In his class we went over multiple powerpoint slides and took various amounts of notes in different categories. For example, we learned about how Homer was blind and very old when he supposedly "wrote" his two famous books The Odyssey and The Iliad. We learned that The Odyssey is a book about the journey of Odysseus back towards his home and his family after fighting in the Trojan War. The gods praised him very highly for his heroic efforts and gave him a lot of respect. Then the god Poseidon claimed how everyone was overthinking his real worth and that if he himself put Odysseus to the test, he would crumble under pressure and act as a coward. He did not however, Odysseus persevered after ten long and rough years of challenges and made his way back to home!