Homer (~750BC)
Homer (~750BC) is the traditionally-credited author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
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- Homer 750BC.
- as described in Herodutus, "The Histories" (450-420 BCE).
- as described in Plato's "The Republic" (~380 BCE).
- as described in Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" (1320).
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- See: Poet, Epic Poem, Herodotus, Trojan War, Ancient Greece.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/homer Retrieved:2014-10-24.
- Homer (Hómēros) is the traditionally-credited creator of the Iliad and the Odyssey, revered as the greatest of Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
Whether and when he lived is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BC, [1] while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC. Most modern researchers place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC. The formative influence of the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece. Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds. [2]
- Homer (Hómēros) is the traditionally-credited creator of the Iliad and the Odyssey, revered as the greatest of Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.