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Before ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey,’ Homer’s very first work—if Homer actually existed—is named ‘Margites,’ after its main character who was nothing short of a bumbling idiot.
And then, after that chaotic age, Homer came along. A writer scholars know little about, he lived on the cusp of the Archaic age of art in Greece, sometime in the 7th or 8th century BCE. He wrote down ...
Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches ...
In "Rediscovering Homer," Andrew Dalby goes further -- arguing that a woman probably composed both "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad." These two epic poems, written around 650 B.C., are traditionally ...
As casting announcements continue to roll in, speculation and excitement has only grown surrounding Christopher Nolan’s ...
How does a Grecian artifact appear to evoke tales from Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'? An engraved stone with a finely detailed battle scene was found in the grave of a warrior buried about 1450BC ...
“An Iliad” is entirely successful as a paean to the art of the storyteller, he who bears witness and shares wisdom via his voice, body, powers of description and compassion.
THE kinship of Iliad and Odyssey can never be denied. Despite microscopic dissimilarities which have been noted, the dialect, the metre, and, we may add, with reasonable allowance for the ...
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