Homer- The Greek Poet
Homer is an indefinite figure of mystery, a halo in a dark shadow. Homer was a Greek poet, accredited with writing The Illiad, The Odyssey, and a few other works of literature. His epic poems were broken down into books to make easier to memorize, since he would recite the whole poem in one day, with no breaks. Homer definitely has an unclear past, he also may not have actually wrote both The Illiad and The Odyssey, and he interlaced several Greek gods into his story, helping us understand what the Greeks of ancient times were like. There is a certain lack of information on Homer. Most likely, he was live around 720 B.C., and he was a blind bard. A bard is a person who recites poems in public, which he wrote by himself, some of these are long in length, and called epics. The Illiad and The Odyssey are both epics that are accredited to Homer. All of this still may not be true. Many people claim that Homer couldn't have been one person, some think that it would be impossible to cover all of these events depicted in his books in a normal man's lifespan. Still, there is no hard proof to prove that Homer didn't write these two epics, but there's also no solid proof that he did. On one hand, until the publication of Prolegom
ena ad Homerum, there probably were only about ten people in the entire world that ever doubted the existence of Homer. The Greeks and the Romans were convinced that Homer was a single man and that he wrote the works that bear his name. The Greeks even studied the Iliad and the Odyssey in their schools as early as 400 BC and regarded the works as masterpieces of the Greek language. Just because of this, though, doesn't mean that it's not possible for Homer to be several men; Today many critics, including most of the ones who insist that Homer was one man, seem convinced that the original Odyssey ended in book XXIII, line 269. Then the 'many Homers' theorists argue that if the rest of book XXIII and all of book XXIV were added at a later time by someone else, would it not be possible that the rest of the Od! mis puts an arrow through Andromache's mother's heart to put her to rest; Thetis is a Sea Nymph, also Achilles mother, she asks Zeus to help her son; a few other gods and deities are just briefly mentioned; Nereus, Ares, Hades, Aphrodite, Leto, Cronus, & the Nine Muses are also included in the story. In The Odyssey, Zeus agreed to allow Odysseus to leave Calypso's island and return home to Ithaca, he later destroyed Odysseus' crew with a lightening bolt for killing Helios' cattle; Athena begged Zeus to allow Odysseus to return to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachos, she felt Calypso held him captive long enough, she later disguised herself as Mentes, an old family friend of Odysseus, and while in disguise, she made Telemachos accept he was a man and to take responsibility for upholding honor in his father's house; Calypso held Odysseus prisoner but treated him well, she forced him to stay with her on the island th
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