Talk:The Ancient World (HUM 124 - UNC Asheville)/Texts/Odyssey/Book 6

Ancient worldview

@Jrob3020: Good start. These are three very different ideas. I'd definitely like to see you expand more on them, maybe starting with just one. Notice the shared themes: different types of characters are supposed to act in certain ways. It is a matter of etiquette, custom, as well as more general ability (i.e. for the gods being able to intervene in the world). I wonder if you could combine them and talk about how the audience was accustomed to dividing up the way that humans and human-like figures (gods) act in the world? I'm interested to hear your ideas about whether the ways in which characters can act in the epic actually reflect the real world, and the ideas the Greeks had about the real world. Is it realistic? Is it fiction? Do some aspects or types of characters appear to reflect the real world more? Do other seem to be more fantasy or fiction? If so, what does that say about the readers...why would they be particularly interested in a certain kind of character being represented in a certain way, maybe with different kinds of constraints? Lots of directions to go with this. Feel free to discuss and ask questions here before continuing to edit! -Joey Cross (discuss • contribs) 16:20, 21 September 2020 (UTC)