Wednesday, January 24, 2018

One Eyed Giants Cove

Book 9 - One Eyed Giants Cove

Notes about the story:

  • Goats
  • Feasting
  • Traveling by ship
  • Strange land
  • Giant monster - Mountain
  • Wine
  • Sharing gifts
  • Wine needed to be diluted 
  • Flocks of sheep
  • Sacrifice to the gods
  • Huge boulder blocking exit
  • Fire
  • Hospitality
  • Cyclops doesn't care about gods
  • Odysseus is crafty
  • Cyclops ate a total of 6 people
  • The club is the size of a ships mast
  • Burning club was forced into the cyclops's eye
  • Escaped by holding onto the sheep
  • Trash talk
  • A fatal flaw? Pride?
Homers epics are not just stories, they are stories that tell about History and they teach morals.

Overall I thought Book 9- One Eyed Giants Cove was enjoyable. I think it is crazy that someone could remember that whole story, much less the whole book which is 173,600 words. This has led me to have suspicions about Homer's existence. I think that Homer was probably a real person, but some facts about him seem a little too good to be true. 

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