Question: "the Greeks belived that the greatest story-teller was a blind man named Homer and that he sung ten epic peoms about the Trojan War, of only two survived."......\n\n\n\nfill in the dots with a transitional sentence.

Answer: That would depend on what you are transitioning to. \n\nExample:\n". . . of which only two survived. The most relevant of the two is the Iliad, which relates the entire story of the war beginning from . . ."\n\nOr\n". . . of which only two survived. These two poems, however, have made an indelible mark on Western civilization."\n\nThe point is, a transitional sentence picks up on a detail or point in the previous sentence and relates it to the next idea, whatever that may be.
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