Ancient Greek Classics

You can find this story on my website here ! And so I left my home island and set sail for a life of adventure. While most that were onboard the ship with myself were hoping to achieve certain ambitions or find hidden treasures, my ultimate goal was to find my father.  While I knew it wouldn't be an easy task, I knew that this was my first step in meeting my dad.  But I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited about becoming a Sailor as well.  Where I come from, there is a difference between being a sailor and being a Sailor.  To become a Sailor you have to pass a strenuous month long exam.  The exam has multiple stages, with each stage weeding out more and more people.  While hundreds or thousands may start in the first stage of the exam, it was common for no more than 10-20 people pass the Sailor exam each year that it happened.  After becoming a Sailor, you were given VIP access to many different things and had access to practically everywhere in t...

 I love the first person perspective of these tales! It takes me right back to the Odyssey.  Similar to Odysseus, Sindbad has a rough start from the get-go.  I can't imagine mistaking a whale for an island...it must have been huge! Regardless, that would be terrifying.  Worse than that would be having to drift all night holding on to a piece of wood.  Lucky for Sindbad, it seems like someone is watching out for him and he drifted to an inhabited island.  Sindbad's adventures remind me a bit of a show that I am watching right now called HunterxHunter. In the show, hunters are pretty much treasure-finders or adventure seekers who go on epic quests and stuff like that.  Sindbad reminds me of this; he casually mentions how he is exploring king's islands and the sort.  Sindbad's story is different from Odysseus' in that Sindbad DOES make it home, and he willingly wants to go back out there.  I can't tell if Sindbad is lucky or unlucky.  After...

 After getting reintroduced to this topic this week (I was first interested when doing the reading overview assignment) I can see why I picked out this story! It's even more interesting by the fact that I have never heard of these goblin stories before.  It seems like a concept I would use though--goblins taking over human bodies.  The riddle dynamic to the stories is even more intriguing.  The stories are pretty interesting to hear--fantastic stories of princesses and magic.  But the whole goal of the stories is to dupe the king.  It would be fun to have a hero have to go through trials of riddles.  I realize that most of my stories involve physical altercations or demonstrate the physical capabilities of my main characters.  Maybe it would be more challenging and take more creativity to write a story such as this, including a goblin type riddle.  I haven't really tried to to that before.  But these stories and challenges remind me a li...