Today we took a quiz in Mr.Schick's class. it was a surprise, I did well I only got 2 wrong and it should help pull up my grade in his class.

we also took some notes:

• Greek oral traditions- stories passed on by word of mouth 
• homer lived at the end of the "Greek dark ages" 
• he composed stories of Trojan war C 750-700 BCE 
• the Iliad- probably one of the last conquest of the Mycenaean (the Trojan war)
• the odyssey - Odysseus attempt to return home, being thwarted by the angry God of the sea, P Poseidon  
• the odyssey was 12,110 lines of the dactylic hexameter 

the Homeric question 

• homer may have been mythical creation 
• a blind wandering minstrel; and heroic figure

Iliad and Odyssey maybe the culmination of many generations of story telling or... homer actually existed and was just that awesome