Week 9

Did Homer write both The Iliad and The Odyssey?

Why are they different?

Why do they cover different things and different stories?

Was it written later, maybe late in the 8th Century BC.?

REQUIRED READING

Homer,

The Odyssey,

translated by Robert Fagles,

Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition,

ISBN 0140268863

RECOMMENDED READING

Edith Hall,

Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind,

W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (June 16, 2014),

ISBN 0393239985