Huh. Wow, I thought The Odyssey and The Iliad had always been high school English standards. Wonder when they came into vogue, then. When they teach you The Odyssey, one of the big things they always mention is the in medias res bit. It was kind of funny, though, that we did The Odyssey in ninth grade and The Iliad in tenth grade, even though the latter is chronologically before the former. I don't remember which one Homer actually wrote first, though.

(edit: and how much do I love P-C juxtaposing a Latin correction with an atti-snap? THIS much!)

Heh. Atti-snap? I'm not familiar with that term.

When they teach you The Odyssey, one of the big things they always mention is the in medias res bit.

When they teach you The Odyssey, you mean. I certainly didn't learn the term from there.

I thought The Iliad was the big in medias res exemplar.

Pretty sure I didn't learn it in school, though.

I thought The Iliad was the big in medias res exemplar.

Wait, I think you're right. Point.

We read snippets from The Odyssey in HS, but we did read all of Medea, if that counts.

I'm sure River read The Iliad and The Odyssey.

I don't remember if we actually read Medea in high school, or whether we just talked about it. We read it in my Greek and Roman drama class at Rice.

I'm sure River read The Iliad and The Odyssey.

What makes you say that?

tommy's attempting to stay on topic; isn't that cute.

I was going to attempt the same by comparing the adventures of the Serenity crew to the Odyssey, but I lacked inspiration.

I got excerpts from the Homer stuff in college. Medea and some other dramas in high school. Lots more Greek drama in college. (And we studied some of the Greek plays too!)

We watched a really bizarre production of The Birds. It was...bizarre.

I was going to attempt the same by comparing the adventures of the Serenity crew to the Odyssey, but I lacked inspiration.

Well, there's traveling after a war. And cunning. Cunning can be used as a noun, right?

But no home to go to or Penelope waiting.