March 14

homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey in the eighth century BCE, centuries after the events it describes happened

they were the only ones to survive the burning of the library of Alexandria

metis: skill, cunning

Odysseus announces his real name while sailing away from the Cyclops island, and the Cyclops calls down curses on him which gets all of his men killed

greek meaning of heroism: extraordinary attribute or ability

Odysseus executes all the housemaids for sleeping with the suitors and he's not even married to them

"and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms around him pressed as though forever

the Iliad is a poem of war, the Odyssey is a poem of peacetime

Kleos: glory, renown achieved on the battlefield that guarantees  immortality because of your deeds are so amazing

weren't werent for diving intervention the humans in the Odyssey would have continued that cycle of violence