This week, I finished reading Homer’s Odyssey, which I found to be full of wonderful stories and vivid descriptions. In The Ghosts of Famous Women, we meet many famous mythological women who have often been involved with the gods. In particular, I loved hearing about the mother of Heracles (whom many of us know as Hercules), and Megara, who married him. This brought back fond, but most likely inaccurate, memories of one of my favorite Disney films, Hercules, but I digress.
The Ghost of Agamemnon was another interesting tale, as he was not just a mythological person, but actually a real one. Reading about his death was rather tragic, and I could feel the friendship between himself and Odysseus. The fact that his wife had a hand in his death was kind of startling. And then Clytemnestra had to go and kill Cassandra, too? Not cool.
And then The Spirit of Achilles. Having a more extensive background knowledge about Achilles than most of the other characters in Homer’s Odyssey. The way that they address each other and speak about their families in this whole unit is incredibly formal and elaborate, sometimes making it difficult to follow what/whom they are talking about. I've had to stop and really consider what each person is saying when they make these elaborate introductions in order to be able to keep up with what they're saying later in the story.
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| (The Dying Achilles, by Ernst Herter) |
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