Today is West Civ we went over the power point and had a pop quiz at the end of class. I learned that Greek oral tradition told stories passed on by word of mouth. Homer lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages," he composed stories of the Trojan War 750-700 BCE. The Lliad was probably the last conquests of the Mycenaean's (Trojan war.) The Odyssey is Odysseus attempt to return home, being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon. The odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter. The "Homeric question" -Homer may have been a mythical creation himself, a blind wandering minstrel; an heroic figure. Lliad and Odyssey may be the culmination of may be the culmination of many generations of storytelling.