Thursday, September 1, 2016

Wikipedia Trail: From Polyphemus to Immortality

The starting point for my trail is the giant cyclops named Polyphemus which appears in ninth book of Homer's Odyssey. I chose this because this was part of the reading I did this week. Odysseus landed on the cyclops' island when traveling home from the Trojan War, therefore that was my next trail. This interested me to research and learn more about the war that Odysseus was coming from. The war essentially was over the golden apple to which Zeus presented before the fairest women. Therefore, my next link was the golden apple. The last thing I led to was immortality because this is what the golden apple ultimately grants and stands for.
Guido Reni - Polyphemus - Google Art Project.jpg
Wikipedia: Polyphemus

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