LINK TO SYNOPSIS: http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/english/canary/iliad.html
Here is a link to the Homer selection online. Assigned section begins about three quarters of the way down the page with the paragraph:
"First he shaped the shield so great and strong, adorning it all over and binding it round with a gleaming circuit in three layers..."
and continuing to the end.
I will also send a scanned copy to each of you via email.
Watch for upcoming slides of maps from different points of view to be posted by Monday...
http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.18.xviii.html
Questions to Ponder:
How does the Homeric shield represent a Greek worldview - and what does that say about maps in general?
Does it mean anything special that this map is a piece of armor used to fight a rival who was culturally different?
How do we use our maps to contextualize ourselves in the world and "defend" ourselves against others?
What within the map seems truly odd (to us) to be included? Longhorn cattle, perhaps?
How is this shield also similar to an auto-ethnography of Greek life?
How does this piece of literature work to let us into the mind of someone from the Greek culture? What inhibits us from being able to truly experience that culture?
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