Home Vs. Homers
...Iliad and the Odyssey.
Wikipedia;"The Odyssey"; Homer was even later credited with the entire Epic Cycle, which was a collection of poems on the Trojan War as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons.
ibid; homer Scholars believe that Homer was blind, and various Ionian cities are claimed to be his birthplace, but other than those speculations nothing is known about the author, and poet "Homer".
ibid; homer There is considerable scholarly debate about whether Homer was actually a real person, or the name given to one or more oral poets who sang traditional epic material.
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ibid; Homer The most prominent of these arguments is the debate as to whether the same poet was responsible for both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Some think that both epics are too well organized to be written by more than one person.
ibid While many find it unlikely that the Odyssey was written by one man or woman, and others find that the epic is generally in the same writing style.
ibid The Iliad and the Odyssey are told throughout multiple books, which leads the mind to believe that it is brilliantly set up to have been written by more than one person.
The Iliad is the story of a brief event in the ninth year of the Trojan war,which the Greeks claim lasted ten years.
Homer; Butler, Samuel (translator); The Iliad The Iliad focuses mainly on Achilles and his rage against king Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief. Achilles becomes furious when Agamemnon takes a slave girl Achilles has been awarded.
Wikipedia; "The Iliad"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad Achilles withdraws from the battle and prays to his mother, Thetis, a goddess, to turn the tide of battle against the Greeks.
Homer; Butler, Samuel (translator); The Iliad; book 1
The gods grant Achilles his prayer, and he does not return to battle until his best friend is killed by the great...
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