Homer

Did Homer actually exist?

- The "Homeric question" - Homer may have been a mythical creation himself
- A blind wandering minstrel; a heroic figure
- Lliad and Odyssey may be the culmination of many generations of storytelling....
- Or.... Homer actually existed and he was just that awesome

The Odyssey Chapter 9

- goats, feasting
- traveling by ship
- strange land
- A Giant Monster Man-Mountain!
- wine
- sharing gifts
- needed to be diluted
- flocks of sheep
- sacrifice to gods
- huge boulder blocking cave exit
- fire
- hospitality
- cyclops don't care
- odysseus is crafty
- HE JUST ATE 2 DUDES!! And 2 more!!
- his club is as big as a ship's mast
- Odysseus: "My name is Nobody"
- drills a burning mast into the cyclop's eye!!
- escape! by clinging to sheep's bellies
- trash talk
- a fatal flow? pride?