Hey Yall!

So, I set up this blog for my Humanities class.  We are assigned to blog about what we learn, understand, or what we don't understand, etc. about class that week.  So, this week in class we started reading the book The Iliad by Homer.  My Humanities class is a semester long and we have a lot of other books to read; so we have been skipping around in the Iliad.  We have read books 1, 6, 8, 11. and 16 so far.  I sort of wish that we had more time to read all of the Iliad because by the time I read book 11 and 16 there were new characters coming into the picture and new events.  But quite a few of my classmates have said that they have watched the movie Troy and I am thinking it might help if I watch it for myself.  I really admire Athena, Zeus's daughter, she is the goddess of wisdom and war.  She sides with the Greeks and tries to help Achilles and the rest of them with the war.  In doing so, she is not afraid to stand up to the mot powerful god, her own father, Zeus.  That takes a lot of strength and guts!