Malik:

(Hope I have the spelling right on your name!)

Here is what we discussed the first week of discussion, that is, the week for which the journal was due. I don't have your email yet, so hope you get a hold of this info easily!

We mainly discussed maps and boundaries, how these boundaries reflected different world views, and how we divide up the world according to our own cultural ideas (i.e., North America is all of Canada, U.S. and Latin America to people in India, but to us it seems like Latin America is more South American culturally).

If you'd like to write on the Iliad's way of dividing up the universe (it's own) that'd be great. You can respond w/a journal of 2-4 paragraphs... I'll also give a few questions, if you'd like to respond to one of them with a short (2-4 paragraph - unless you want to write more :)) response paper, that'd work, too!

1. How does Homer's map express the early Greek worldview as a whole (i.e., how does it map their knowledge of physical boundaries)

2. How does Homer's map express the early Greek cultural world (i.e., what they thought was important to show on a map/"logo" for what their country/culture IS - longhorn catte, things being eaten, cowardly dogs, etc)

3. What do our own "logos" flags, insignias, function to delineate us and express us to others? How do we feel a part of this message, how do we feel it does not express us?

4. How will people in the future divide us up? Will we be the Great Unified World Destroyers? The Many Dissenting Voices? How does this apply to how we're looking back?

5. What does translation have to do with how we're reading this text - both its own translation from Greek, and our own subjective readings "personal translations" of it?