1. homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey in the eighth century BCE and this was centuries after the events actually happened.
2. they were the only ones to survive the burning of the library of Alexandria
3. metis: skill, cunning
4. Odysseus announces his real name while sailing away from the Cyclops island and the Cyclops calls down curses on him which gets all of his men killed
5. Greek meaning of heroism: extraordinary attribute or ability
6. Odysseus executes all the housemaids for sleeping with the suitors and he's not even married to them
7. "and so, she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms around him pressed as though forever
8. the Iliad is a poem of war, the Odyssey is a poem of peacetime
9. Kleros: glory, renown achieved on the battlefield that guarantees immortality because of your deeds are so amazing
10. They weren't for diving intervention the humans in the Odyssey would have continued that cycle of violence
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