Day 4

today in class we took we took notes. My notes we " homer remembered the oddessey by using rhythm. " "homer composed the Iliad and the oddessey, Trojan war= Iliad oddessey=guy trying to get home." "the homeric question is did homer really exist." "he was a blind old man who and 2 very good stories memeorized."

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