I've written and posted tons of nonsense on the web in the past, however this is the first blog created for academic purposes. Of course it will long outlive this course as any online posting tends to do. So thus it will be; perhaps someday this one surpasses my mostly music blog on myspace or the longforgotten livejournal account I had years ago. Certainly I hope it is more useful than the online shouting match that is Twitter...who the *&*^& "tweets" anyhow?
I suppose time will tell.
If nothing else, 100 pages into The Illiad and so far what I've taken from it is that Homer crafted a tale of intrigues among the dysfunctional, vain, and narcissistic gods of the Greek Pantheon and that both the Trojans and Aegeans are but pawns of their diabolical feuding.
More to come, surely.
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Well said. It seems that the mortals are mere pawns in a chess game for the gods. But the question is--why?
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