The important thing is that The Iliad and The Odyssey were recorded (from an amalgam of oral tradition, basically) and have had an enormous impact on the thinking, literature, and story-telling of the World, especially the Western World. We don’t actually know too much about Homer and “he” might have been a number of people or not really Homer at all. They are some of the oldest works of literature in the world and are based on a combination of history (perhaps) and Greek mythology. In case you somehow don’t know, The Iliad and The Odyssey are ancient Greek, epic poems. While teaching mythology to a small classroom of approximately-ninth-graders this year, I decided to have a looky-loo at these graphic novel versions of the Trojan War and Odysseus stories. I have now purchased The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Beowulf for our home school shelves. I have stumbled upon the graphic novels of Gareth Hinds in my obsession with coming up with things that my middle school boy will read. I actually believe I already read The Odyssey in high school. I do intend to read a translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey one day.
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