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Today in Mr. Schick’s western civilization class, we looked at more of the power point and finished reading through the textbook pages we read two classes ago. We finished learning about Homer and asked the “Homeric question” which is if Homer was an amazingly intelligent person or if he was a mythical creation himself. We also learned that The Odyssey and The Iliad were dactylic hexameters which are rhythmic stories with 6 syllables on each line. Homer was a blind wandering minstrel. We learned that a polis is a fundamental political unit which is comprised of the city and its surrounding area, a monarchy is rule by a single person (king), aristocracy is rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families, oligarchy is a wealthy group who are dissatisfied with the aristocratic rule, who seized power with military help, and a tyrant who a powerful individual who seized control by gaining support of the common people