{"id":1396013,"date":"2016-12-31T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1396013"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:54:20","slug":"blogging-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/blogging-the-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging <i>The Odyssey<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/bloggingtheodyssey1sep1_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greetings, fellow journeymen on the road of life! For the uninitiated, I am Elodie. I&#8217;m one of the people on this hallowed site who blogs things. In the past, I have plodded through the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/tag\/elodie-blogs-lord-of-the-flies\" target=\"_blank\">terrible decisions and abrupt dictatorships<\/a> of <em>Lord of the Flies<\/em>; I have trudged through the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/tag\/blogging-the-great-gatsby\" target=\"_blank\">bizarre foreshadowing and unmistakable homoeroticism<\/a> of <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> \u00a0(only to be disappointed by the utter and egregious lack of endgame Natsby). Now I&#8217;m back \u00a0to blog <em>THE ODYSSEY<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Odyssey<\/em> has everything I look for \u00a0in a book, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wacky sea monsters<\/li>\n<li>A wily protagonist<\/li>\n<li>Sirens luring weak-willed men to their untimely deaths<\/li>\n<li>Zeus doing the stupid things<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Speaking of which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/09\/02\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-1-the-one-where-athena-is-already-fed-up-with-poseidons-crap\" target=\"_blank\">Books 1 and 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/09\/09\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-2-the-one-where-we-find-out-what-the-hell-even-happened-to-odysseus\" target=\"_blank\">Books 3 and 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/09\/16\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-3-the-one-where-everyone-is-naked-for-some-reason-or-another\" target=\"_blank\">Books 5 and 6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/09\/23\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-4-the-one-where-odysseus-has-to-seduce-everyone-if-he-ever-wants-to-see-his-family-again\" target=\"_blank\">Books 7 and 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/09\/30\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-5-how-not-to-anger-the-gods\" target=\"_blank\">Book 9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/10\/07\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-6-the-five-people-you-meet-in-the-underworld\" target=\"_blank\">Books 10 and 11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/10\/14\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-7-the-worst-ways-to-die-in-ancient-greece\" target=\"_blank\">Book 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/10\/21\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-8-odysseus-is-back-and-this-time-its-personal\" target=\"_blank\">Books 13-15<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/10\/28\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-9-wow-okay-so-the-dog-dies\" target=\"_blank\">Books 16 and 17<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/11\/04\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-10-how-to-tell-if-youre-about-to-die-in-a-greek-epic\" target=\"_blank\">Books 18-20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/11\/11\/blogging-the-odyssey-part-11-the-red-wedding-basically\" target=\"_blank\">Books 21-22<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, of course:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/lit\/odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/lit\/odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\"> SparkNote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GUESS WHAT? We&#8217;ve also \u00a0blogged <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, \u00a0<em>1984<\/em>, \u00a0<em>Lord of the Flies<\/em>, \u00a0<em>The \u00a0Scarlet Letter<\/em>, \u00a0<em>Catcher in the Rye<\/em>, \u00a0<em>Hamlet<\/em>, and \u00a0<em>The Crucible.<\/em> \u00a0Find \u00a0every \u00a0<em>Blogging the Classics<\/em> post <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/07\/18\/blogging-the-classics-index-page\/\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, fellow journeymen on the road of life! For the uninitiated, I am Elodie. I&#8217;m one of the people on this hallowed site who blogs things. 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