WOOOOOOOOOOT!

i finished the first book of Homer's The Odyssey!!! I feel so proud of myself it was so hard to understand, these ancient ways of speaking! Basically, the first chapter was about Athena getting mad at Poseidon (well duh, they hate each other anyways so no news there) because he was punishing Odyseus, who was a victorious warrior on Athena's side during the Trojan War. And then she goes and disguises herself as Metis and comes down to greet Odyseus's son, who she basically told, "DUDE, YOU NEED TO GO ON A QUEST TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT YO FATHAH! HE'S NOT DEAD!" and she gave him courage, enough to talk back to some rude guests that wanted to marry his beautiful mother, Penelope, also the wife of Odyseus! I feel so smart I can translate it to modern speech!